DePoy Wins National Award for Contribution to Disabilities Field
Contact: Elizabeth DePoy, 581-1469; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — Elizabeth DePoy, co-coordinator and professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and professor of social work, has been selected to receive the 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD) for her contributions to the association and to the field of disabilities.
She is to receive the award at the Nov. 1 annual meeting of the association in Washington, D.C.
Association President Lu Zeph, who is director of the UMaine Center for Community Inclusion, acknowledged in a congratulatory letter that DePoy has been a key leader at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies and that she has actively engaged many people in the disabilities studies research process and other scholarly activities.
Because of her scholarship, vision, leadership and redesign of the center’s disability studies curriculum, DePoy has helped ensure that disability studies remains a vital and growing field of study, and is recognized nationally as a model program, Zeph wrote.