2006-2007 Outstanding Woman of the Year Award

source: umnews

Ms. Laura Nichols
Laura Nichols has been with the Department of Women’s Studies since 1987. As Assistant Director, she is responsible for advising the undergraduate students in the department. Laura has also received the 2004 Professional Advisor of the Year. She has been a member of the President’s Commission on Women’s Issues since 1997, serving as chair from 2002-2004. As a member of the Peer Consulting Network for the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change (CLOC) since 1999, Laura organized the campus wide climate study on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues for university faculty and staff. For this work, she was awarded the 2005 Champion of Our Community award by the LGBT Staff and Faulty Association. She also serves on the Vice-President’s Committee on Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence. Laura and her four children have all attended the University of Maryland.

Dr. Denise Gottfredson
Denise C. Gottfredson is a Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. She received a Ph.D. in Social Relations from The Johns Hopkins University, where she specialized in Sociology of Education. D. Gottfredson's research interests include delinquency and delinquency prevention, and particularly the effects of school environments on youth behavior. Much of Gottfredson’s career has been devoted to developing effective collaborations between researchers and practitioners. She has worked closely with the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention in its efforts to promote effective prevention practices in Maryland. Gottfredson has recently completed randomized experiments to test the effectiveness of the Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court and the Strengthening Families Program in Washington D.C. She is currently directing a randomized trial of the effects of structured after school programming on the development of problem behavior.

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