Victor Lozada, PhD (Literacy & Learning) received the Outstanding Graduate Paper Award from the Music Education SIG at AERA23, the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held April 13-16 in Chicago. The award was based on Lozada’s dissertation, “Music-based and Language-based Literacies in Spanish-English Emergent Bi/Multilingual First Graders: Music Aptitude, Phonological Awareness, and Morphological Awareness.”