Sept. 24, 2011
Richard Rogers, Regents Professor of psychology and leading authority on the variability of Miranda warnings, received the 2011 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy from the American Psychological Association. His research on the comprehensibility of the nearly 900 variations of Miranda warnings has received more than $800,000 in National Science Foundation grants and was cited before the Supreme Court. He also received the 2008 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research — only the third recipient of both awards.