Laurie Cutting

{{short description|Special education researcher}}

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• American University {{Small|(BA)}}
• Northwestern University {{Small|(MA, PhD)}}

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| discipline = Psychologist

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• Cognitive science
• Learning sciences

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Laurie Cutting is an American scholar of psychology and pediatrics. She is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Special Education, Psychology and Human Development, Radiology, and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University.{{Cite web|title=Laurie E. Cutting, Ph.D.|url=https://www.ncld.org/about/advisory-board/laurie-e-cutting-ph-d/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=NCLD|language=en-US}} In addition, she is associate director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and a member of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, training faculty for Vanderbilt's Neuroscience Ph.D. program.{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/index.php|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Peabody College of Education and Human Development|language=en}}

Cutting is also a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories and a member of the Haskins Global Literacy Hub.{{Cite web|title=People|url=http://haskinsglobal.org/people/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Haskins Global Literacy Hub|language=en-US}} She was selected to be the 2017–2018 Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and received an NIH MERIT Award in 2018.{{Cite web|last=Brasher|first=Joan|title=Laurie Cutting, Vanderbilt educational neuroscientist, honored with NIH Merit Award|url=https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/10/05/laurie-cutting-vanderbilt-educational-neuroscientist-honored-with-nih-merit-award/|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Vanderbilt University|language=en}} Cutting serves on many boards and scientific advisory committees, including the National Center for Learning Disabilities and The Dyslexia Foundation. In 2002–2003, she completed an AAAS NIH science policy fellowship, and from 2007 to 2009, she was appointed to the Federal Reading First Advisory Panel.{{Cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=Katherine |last2=Brady |first2=Susan |last3=Cutting |first3=Laurie |last4=Carlo |first4=Maria |last5=Gutierrez |first5=Kris |last6=Lesaux |first6=Nonie K. |last7=Lloyd |first7=John Wills |last8=Morrison |first8=Frederick |last9=Palincsar |first9=Annemarie Sullivan |last10=Scanlon |first10=Donna |last11=Vellutino |first11=Frank |display-authors=3 |date=2008-08-20 |title=Response to the Reading First Impact Study Interim Report |url=https://www2.ed.gov/programs/readingfirst/statement.pdf |journal= |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Reading First Federal Advisory Committee}}

Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, she was a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an associate professor of education at Johns Hopkins University.{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/index.php|access-date=2021-03-12|website=Peabody College of Education and Human Development|language=en}} While working on her doctorate at Northwestern University, she interned at Yale University School of Medicine's Center for Learning and Attention and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.{{Cite web|title=Patricia Cutting|date=18 December 2018 |url=https://research.vanderbilt.edu/researchadministration/ovpr/vurc/|accessdate=September 5, 2019|publisher=vanderbilt.edu}}