full professor at the University of Delaware in 1990. That year, her fourth grant application to the Pioneer Fund was rejected by the board of the university, which said the funding would undermine their university's affirmative action. Gottfredson challenged the ruling with assistance from the Center for Individual Rights and the American Association of University Professors. In 1992, after two and a half years of debate and protest, the university administration reached a settlement that once again allowed Gottfredson and Jan Blits to continue receiving research funding from the Pioneer Fund. The arbitrator of the case held that the university's research committee had violated its own standards of review by looking at the content of Gottfredson's research and that Gottfredson had a right to academic freedom that public perceptions alone did not suffice to overcome. Views and criticisms Gottfredson has been very critical of psychologist Robert Sternberg's work on the triarchic theory of intelligence, arguing that Sternberg has not demonstrated a distinction between practical intelligence and the analytical intelligence measured by IQ tests. Her views on the relationship between race and intelligence and her vocal opposition to policies such as affirmative action, hiring quotas, and "race-norming" on aptitude tests have led the Southern Poverty Law Center to describe her as a promoter of eugenicism, scientific racism, and white nationalism. Gottfredson has received research grants worth $267,000 from the Pioneer Fund, an organization described as racist and white supremacist. She defended the Pioneer Fund's then president J. Philippe Rushton and disparaged his critics. The University of Delaware unsuccessfully sought to block Gottfredson from receiving Pioneer Fund grants before reaching a legal settlement with her in 1992. Honors George A Miller Award (for outstanding journal article across specialty areas), Society for General Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2008 Mensa Foundation – Mensa Award for Excellence in Research, (2005) - for "Dissecting practical intelligence theory: Its claims and evidence". Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, elected 1998. Fellow, American Psychological Association, elected 1994. Fellow, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, elected 1994. See also Through the Wormhole#Season 3 (2012) References External links Linda S. Gottfredson homepage (with online prints of publications) 1947 births Living people American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Educational psychologists Educators from California American women educators Intelligence researchers Johns Hopkins University alumni Race and intelligence controversy Proponents of scientific racism University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Delaware faculty Writers from San