He received the American Psychological Association's 2003 Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Practice. (co-operation.org)
She is a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education and the Joseph E. Zins Early - Career Distinguished Contribution Award for Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning. (gse.harvard.edu)
Among Desmond - Hellmann's most distinguishing contributions was establishing precision medicine — which aims to collect and analyze massive amounts of data (genomic, molecular, environmental and clinical) to identify the root causes of diseases and to develop targeted therapies to treat them — as a goal for UCSF and the nation. (ucsf.edu)