Susanne M. Bruyère is the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association's (ARCA) 2006 recipient of the James F. Garrett Award for a Distinguished Career in Rehabilitation Research. Recipients are selected based on their published research, with a focus on rehabilitation counseling, spanning at least 15 years. They are nominated and reviewed by peer award recipients.

Bruyère, who received the Garrett award from ARCA at the American Counseling Association's annual conference in Montreal on April 1, has been director of the Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) since 1991.

The Garrett award recognizes Bruyère's significant work in the field of rehabilitation research, in particular her role at the helm of EDI, which conducts research and offers training, information and technical assistance that improve the employment outcomes of people with disabilities and help them attain economic self-sufficiency. Bruyère is responsible for the strategic and financial direction of the $5 million EDI unit and is project director and a co-principal investigator of many of its research projects on employment disability nondiscrimination and disability employment policy (see http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/edi).

"Susanne has done a marvelous job building a dynamic program through EDI," said ILR School Dean Harry Katz, who in 2005 also appointed her associate dean of outreach at the school.

She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, chair of the Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network (GLADNET), and past president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, the National Council on Rehabilitation Education and the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association.