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Dr. Wayne Fuqua was recognized with the Distinguished Service Award. This honor is given to members of WMU’s faculty who demonstrate exceptional service in areas that reflect innovative and effective programming, increase WMU’s stature, or extend WMU’s impact and presence into the larger community. Dr. Fuqua is professor in the Department of Psychology, a member of the applied behavior analysis and clinical faculties, and the director of the behavioral medicine laboratory. Dr. Fuqua earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1977. He has been on the faculty at WMU since 1976, where he has served as director of graduate training (1994–1999) and department chair (1999–present). He has also been involved in the development of curriculum for the WMU School of Medicine, which focuses on the application of behavioral systems analysis principles to insure safe medical practice.” Throughout his career, he has contributed substantially to the department’s long-standing reputation as one of the foremost academic programs in behavior analysis (graduating more than 300 doctoral-level behavior analysts). Under his leadership, the department has survived multiple institutional challenges and has thrived. In addition to this sustained record of administrative service, Dr. Fuqua has been on the editorial boards— including a stint as associate editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis—and has published more than 50 articles in some of the field’s most prestigious and respected journals. He has served as the president and member of the Board of Directors for Residential Opportunities, Inc., a Kalamazoo-based agency that provides services for people with developmental and physical disabilities. He was also instrumental in the development of the recently opened Great Lakes Center for Autism Treatment and Research. He has been involved in lobbying efforts for legislation in Michigan to provide insurance coverage for evidence-based interventions for children on the autism spectrum. He was recently appointed to the Michigan Autism Council, a group that is charged with developing and implementing a statewide autism plan. His research has targeted a diverse range of society’s most important problems including health, community, and clinical behavior analysis; behavior analytic approaches to the study of ethics; developmental disabilities; rehabilitation; behavioral medicine; and HIV prevention. 41