Congratulations to NACS alum Kathryn McNaughton for receiving the Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award! The award recognizes dissertations completed in 2024 that made an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences nominated Kathryn's dissertation for this year’s competition and a multi-disciplinary campus committee selected her dissertation, “Individual and dyadic predictors of peer interaction success in autistic and neurotypical youth,” as the winner in the disciplinary area of Social Sciences. 

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