Sadler to receive national science education award

March 4, 2009

Troy Sadler, assistant professor of the University of Florida College of Education, soon will receive one of science education’s premier honors. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) is scheduled to present him with its Early Career Research Award at the group’s upcoming annual conference in April. The annual award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the field of science education within five years of receiving a doctoral degree. Sadler joins a select group of internationally recognized researchers to have received the honor.

Sadler is a key player in UF’s ambitious Science for Life initiative—a nine-college effort, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He also is the principal investigator of a new $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.