In July 2014, Jayne M. Standley, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy, was awarded the first ever Global Research Award in Music Therapy. The World Federation recognized her at its 2014 Congress in Vienna for over 20 years of research that created the global specialization of music therapy with premature infants and for the invention of the PAL, an FDA approved device to teach feeding skills to premature infants which is licensed to Powers Device Technologies Inc. The World Federation of Music Therapy is the only world-wide organization for the field, meets every 3 years, and will continue recognizing outstanding research impact at its future congresses.