Clark received faculty lifetime achievement award

Richard Clark, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology and Technology at the Rossier School of Education, has received the 2013 Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished academic career spanning 33 years of teaching and research at USC.

He was presented the award at USC’s 32nd annual Academic Honors Convocation on April 23 at Town and Gown.

After serving on the faculty at Stanford and Syracuse universities, Richard Clark started his career at USC in 1978 as Professor of Educational Psychology and Technology. In 2005, he became Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Technology at the Rossier School of Education, and in 2008 was appointed Professor of Clinical Research in Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine.

Clark is an internationally renowned expert in the design and application of research on complex learning, performance motivation and the use of technology in instruction. His most recent books include: Learning from Media: Arguments, Analysis and Evidence, Second Edition (2012, Information Age Publishers); Handling Complexity in Learning Environments: Theory and Research (2006, Elsevier, with Jan Elen); Turning Research Into Results: A Guide to Selecting the Right Performance Solutions (2002, CEP Press, with Fred Estes) which received the 2003 International Society for Performance Improvement Award of Excellence.

In 2002, he won the Thomas F. Gilbert distinguished professional achievement award from International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI); in 2003 he received the Socrates award for excellence in teaching from the Rossier School of Education and in 2007 the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army. He is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 15, Educational Psychology), a Fellow in the Association of Applied Psychology, a Founding Fellow of the American Psychological Society and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

He holds an EdD from Indiana University (Bloomington) in Educational Psychology and Instructional Systems Technology; an MS from the University of Pennsylvania in Mass Communications, Journalism and a BA from Western Michigan University in History and Political Science.