Hedges to Receive International Education Award
Northwestern University's Larry Hedges, a world-renowned statistician and methodology researcher, will receive the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education from the World Cultural Council (WCC) at the University of Helsinki.
The award will be presented on Nov. 3, 2023 in conjunction with the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, which was given to prominent University of Basel physicist Christoph Gerber for his achievements in nanoscale science.
Hedges and Gerber will deliver their laureate lectures on Nov. 2 in Helsinki. Northwestern Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and WCC president, is part of the committee that will present the Vasconcelos prize to Hedges during the 38th Annual World Cultural Council Award Ceremony.
The WCC, an international nonprofit founded in Mexico, confers these honors “on eminent pioneers honoring their tireless efforts and the inspiration they bring as role models, encouraging young generations to join forces to overcome the challenges of our society.”
Hedges’s research straddles many fields — including sociology, psychology, and educational policy. He is best known for his work developing statistical methods for meta-analysis (a technique that combines the results of multiple studies on a specific topic to draw more accurate and reliable conclusions) in the social, medical and biological sciences.
Hedges, a first-generation college student, received the 2018 Yidan Prize, the world’s largest prize for education research. He is Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy and a professor of psychology and medical social sciences at Northwestern, where he is also a fellow of the Institute for Policy Research and co-director of the Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy and Practice, or STEPP, Center.
Related resources:
- Read the full story on the Institute for Policy Research website.
- Learn more on the World Cultural Council’s website.