Ya-yu Lo, professor of Special Education and graduate program director for the M.Ed. and MAT programs in the Department of Special Education and Child Development, is the 2021 recipient of the Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award. She was honored at a special Zoom ceremony Thursday, Feb. 18.
Lo specializes in school-based multi-tiered interventions using applied behavior analytic approach for urban diverse learners with behavioral disorders. She has secured more than $2.5 million in external funding as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI from institutions including the U.S. Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation and the European Commission.
Read more at Inside UNC Charlotte. More information on the Harshini V. de Silva Award is available from the Graduate School.