(October 2025)
Marta Pellegrini receives the 2025 SREE Early Career Award.
The SREE Early Career Award recognizes early-career professionals who have demonstrated outstanding research achievement within seven years of earning their doctorate. The award, presented annually, aims to highlight individuals whose work has had a significant impact on educational effectiveness and policy.
Marta Pellegrini, Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari, Italy, advocates for the practical use of high-quality evidence in K-12 education, specializing in rigorous evidence syntheses of school-based interventions. She is the lead author of a seminal meta-analysis in AERA Open regarding elementary mathematics programs and co-author of a companion synthesis in Reading Research Quarterly, both focused on improving outcomes for children. She currently serves as PI (Principal Investigator) or co-PI on several research projects; Marta also served on the development team for Evidence for ESSA at Johns Hopkins and is building a similar evidence-based platform in Italy. Her work advances both research methods (including meta-analytic rigor and open science) and real-world impact, ensuring educators can trust and apply findings that improve student success.
"Dr. Pellegrini's work exemplifies her enduring dedication to the advancement and application of high-quality evidence in education, from rigorous meta-analyses of key interventions to promoting best practices in evidence synthesis and ensuring educators have direct access to reliable research on effective programs," notes Terri Pigott, Georgia State University.
SREE is thrilled to recognize Pellegrini for her exemplary work in educational research at the upcoming SREE Annual Conference. This event provides an opportunity for the educational research community to celebrate their achievements and learn from their innovative work.

(June 2025)
Michele Camerota receives the Prize for Philosophical Sciences.
Michele Camerota, professor of History of Science at the University of Cagliari, one of the most authoritative experts on Galileo Galilei and the Early Modern Age, received the Minister of Culture Prize for Philosophical Sciences. The award ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei at Palazzo Corsini in Rome, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. Throughout his prolific career, Camerota explored the complex relationships between science, philosophy, and religion in the 16th and 17th centuries, "making a decisive contribution," the University of Cagliari emphasizes, "to the understanding of the so-called Scientific Revolution and the culture of scientific academies." Among his most notable contributions is the biography of Galileo published in 2004, now considered a milestone for anyone studying the Pisan scientist. The award-winning professor also edited, together with Patrizia Ruffo, the four-volume Update to the national edition of Galileo's Works edited by Antonio Favaro and the extensive historical and interpretative notes accompanying the recent critical edition of Il Saggiatore. His research has also extended to the First Academy of the Lincei and scientific and philosophical culture between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Source: ANSA Sardegna Notizie, article dated June 13, 2025)

(June 2024)
Roberto Giuntini, Professor of Logic and Philosophy at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy of the University of Cagliari, has been appointed member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA).
The appointment took place during the last Senate of the Academy last June. The presentation ceremony of the new members will take place during the plenary session next March in Salzburg. Giuntini is currently at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technische Universitaet (TUM) where he is following a research project as Philosopher in Residence. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a cultural institution founded in 1990 in Salzburg, includes among its members leading scientists, artists and governance professionals, dedicated to innovative research, interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration, as well as the exchange and dissemination of knowledge. Its mission is to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration between expert scientists from all disciplines, leading artists and governance professionals. Their aim is to analyse important social challenges and help solve complex issues for the future well-being of Europeans. The Academy brings together 2000 eminent scholars and professionals, including 28 Nobel Prize winners, from across Europe. (Data source: UNICA Magazine, article of July 10, 2024)