Ena Vazquez-Nuttall

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Ena Vazquez-Nuttall
BornJanuary 27, 1937
DiedOctober 20, 2011
Academic background
Alma mater University of Puerto Rico
Radcliffe College
Boston University
Thesis Creativity in boys; a study of the influence of social background, educational achievement, and parental attitudes on the creative behavior of ten year old boys  (1969)

Ena Vazquez-Nuttall (1937 - 2011) was a Puerto Rican psychologist known for her work on the relevance of cultural diversity in the field of psychology.

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Early life and education

Vazquez-Nuttall was born in 1937 in Salinas, Puerto Rico. [1] She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico. She earned a master's degree from Radcliffe College, and an EdD in counseling and school psychology from Boston University. [2]

Career

Vazquez-Nuttall started graduate programs in school psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Northeastern University. [1] She was the Associate Dean and Director of Graduate School of the Bouve College of Health Sciences from 1992 until 2004. [3] She retired from Northeastern University in 2009 after working there for 21 years. [4]

Honors and awards

In 1990 the received a National Association of School Psychologists Presidential Award. In 2004 Vazquez-Nuttall was honored by the National Latino Psychological Association. In 2004 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Massachusetts School Psychologists Association, [1] and the association established a scholarship in her name. [5] Upon her death in 2011, Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences instituted the Ena Vazquez-Nuttall Award for students who demonstrate outstanding multicultural contributions to the discipline. [1]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Chieh Li; Shriberg, David; Lifter, Karin; Hoffman, Jessica; Kruger, Louis; Sanchez, William; Mason, Emanuel; Chung, Y. Barry (2012). "IN MEMORIAM: Ena Vazquez-Nuttall, 1937-2011". Communiqué, Bethesda, National Association of School Psychologists. 41 (1): 22–22.
  2. Vazquez-Nuttall, E. Ethnicity and Health in American Psychological Association: Psychologists of Color. Retrieved March 4, 2023, from https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/vazquez-nuttall
  3. "In Memoriam". www.nlpa.ws. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  4. "Personalities". Vol. 40, no. 8. September 2009. p. 84. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  5. "Massachusetts School Psychologists Association - Ena Vazquez-Nutall Scholarship". mspa.wildapricot.org. Retrieved 2024-04-08.

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