Ena Vazquez-Nuttall | |
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| Born | January 27, 1937 |
| Died | October 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.
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]
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]
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]