Researcher Elizabeth Tighe Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Researcher Elizabeth Tighe Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology Elizabeth Tighe, assistant director of the Adult Literacy Research Center at Georgia State University, recently received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Tighe is the lab director of the Adult Language Literacy and Learning Lab and an affiliated faculty member with the university’s Language and Literacy Initiative. Her primary research centers on understanding the literacy skills and instructional needs of adults who need extra support in reading, including adults enrolled in adult literacy programs, postsecondary students, incarcerated adults and multilingual adults.