Year Inducted
1971
Career Field
Psychology
Highlights
- Author of Physical Disability: A Psychosocial Approach, the premier text in the field of rehabilitation psychology
- 1968: 66 field professionals rated her text “the outstanding contribution in its field” out of an evaluation of 76 significant works
- Barred from being on the KU faculty until 1963 and not made a full professor until 1967 because she was a woman
- Recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Iowa
- 1984: received the Irvin Youngberg Award for Achievement in Applied Sciences
- Pledged $50,000 to the Beatrice A Wright Scholarship in Health and Rehabilitation Psychology named in her honor
- 1996: Beatrice A Wright Faculty Scholar in Clinical Psychology professorship established in her honor