Professor Richard Ruiz Receives Posthumous AERA Lifetime Achievement Award

In April, at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association held in Washington, D.C., the late Professor Richard Ruiz was the recipient of a posthumous AERA Lifetime Achievement Award. His wife, Marie Ruiz, attended the meeting to receive the award.

Victoria Graves, a doctoral student in Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies, is the first recipient of the Richard Ruiz Memorial Scholarship. In a note to Marie Ruiz, she wrote that she is honored to be the first recipient and "values and respects the integrity that Richard Ruiz exemplified. I felt the power of his leadership, and this award enables me to become transformative in my own professional growth and well-being."