JUNE 6, 2023, NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Heterodox Academy (HxA), a non-partisan, non-profit membership organization committed to improving institutions of higher education by advocating principles of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement announced the winners of their annual Open Inquiry Awards this evening at their conference held in Chicago.

This year's Open Inquiry Award winners:

• Mary Kate Cary is receiving the 2024 Leadership Award from Heterodox Academy for her tireless efforts to promote open inquiry, free speech, and viewpoint diversity on the grounds of UVA and beyond.
• Cory J. Clark is receiving the 2024 Exceptional Scholarship Award from Heterodox Academy for her ability to organize large-scale collaborative research projects to expose and understand bias and censorship in science; and for her leadership of the Adversarial Collaboration Project that uses constructive disagreement methods to resolve contradictory findings in the scientific literature.
• Simon Cullen is receiving the 2024 Teaching Excellence Award from Heterodox Academy for his innovative pedagogical techniques to foster open discussion on controversial topics across his courses, and for his course, Dangerous Ideas in Science and Society.
• The Heterodox Libraries community, led by Craig Gibson, Professor of Libraries at The Ohio State University, and Sarah Hartman-Caverly, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Pennsylvania State University - Berks, is receiving the inaugural 2024 HxA Community Excellence Award from Heterodox Academy for elevating discourse about open inquiry and viewpoint diversity in the library sciences.
• J. Michael Bailey is receiving the 2024 Courage Award from Heterodox Academy for embodying open inquiry across his decades of research on sexual psychology in the face of significant professional and personal costs.

“It is an honor to recognize this esteemed group of members that are truly putting our principles into action on their campuses,” said John Tomasi, President of Heterodox Academy. “And it was a special delight to celebrate them with hundreds of members and supporters at our conference in Chicago this year."

Launched in 2018, the Open Inquiry Awards recognize those who do exemplary work promoting HxA’s core values in higher education — providing models that others can learn from, be inspired by, and emulate.