Denise A. Guerin, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor, has been awarded the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Distinguished Educator Award for 2007. There is only one of these given each year.

Dr. Guerin's award is for her significant contribution to defining and documenting the interior design profession's body of knowledge, her coordination of the only searchable database of research on design and human behavior (InformeDesign), her work with legal regulation of interior design practice, and her research on sustainable design.