The Kellett Mid-Career Awards support faculty who are seven to 20 years past the first promotion to a tenured position. The award was created to provide needed support and encouragement to faculty at a critical stage of their careers, and comes with $75,000 that may be spent over five years.

Bolt is a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology. He develops and studies applications of statistical methods in education and the social sciences, especially as related to the measurement of educational and psychological constructs. His research focuses on statistical tools relevant to computer-based item types, as well as methods for evaluating their validity and equity across student populations.

John Hitchcock is a professor with the Art Department and is the School of Education’s associate dean for the arts. He uses the print medium’s long history of commenting on social and political issues to explore his relationships to community, land, and culture. His artwork consists of mythological hybrid creatures and military weapons based on his childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma next to the U.S. field artillery base, Fort Sill. Many of the images are interpretations of stories told by his Kiowa and Comanche grandparents and abstract representations influenced by beadwork, land, and culture.

Read more about the awards here.