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WASHINGTON, DC – Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association recently announced that OSLC Senior Scientist and clinical psychologist Dr. Gerald R. Patterson will be awarded the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society at their annual meeting in Boston. The award is given to an individual whose work has, over a lifetime career, contributed not only to the science of developmental psychology, and who has also worked to the benefit of the application of developmental psychology to society. The individual’s contributions may have been made through advocacy, direct service, influencing public policy or education, or through any other routes that enable scientific developmental psychology to better the condition of children and families. This is the second major award that Dr. Patterson has received from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association. In 1998, he received the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, given to a single individual who has made distinguished contributions to developmental psychology, including contributions in research, student training and other scholarly endeavors. Evaluations for these awards are based on criteria such as the scientific merit of the individual’s work, the importance of this work in opening up new empirical or theoretical areas of development psychology, and the importance of the individual’s work in linking developmental psychology with issues confronting the larger society or with other disciplines.