> Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Harring, who was appointed book review editor for Psychometrika. Click here for more information.
> Congratulations to Yating Zheng, who was named a 2015-2016 International Teaching Fellow.
> Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Harring, recipient of the 2015 UM Graduate Faculty Mentor Award and the College of Education Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award.
> Congratulations to Dandan Liao, recipient of the 2015 College of Education Outstanding Master's Student Award.
>Congratulations to Dan McNeish, recipient of the 2015 College of Education Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.
> Congratulations to Dr. Bob Lissitz, recipient of the title of Professor Emeritus.
> Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hancock, recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award for the Structural Equation Modeling Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.
> Congratulations to Dandan Liao, recipient of a 2015 Financial Industry Regulatory Authority summer internship.
> Congratulations to Ji An, recipient of a 2015 CTB/McGraw-Hill summer internship.
> Congratulations to Dandan Liao, who won the 2015 Student Paper Competition Award for the Joint Statistical Meeting to be held in Seattle in August.
> Congratulations to Chen Li, who was selected as a University of Maryland Global Graduate Fellow.
> Congratulations to Xiaying (James) Zheng, who was selected as one of the eight international teaching fellows on campus this year.
> Congratulations to Bob Lissitz on his appointment by the Governor to the Maryland College and Career-Ready Standards and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, Implementation Review Workgroup.
> Congratulations to Youngmi Cho, who accepted a psychometrician position in the Clinical Assessment Division at Pearson.
> EDMS alumna Dr. Jing Gao donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni.
> Congratulations to Yoonjeong Kang, who won the Graduate Student Best Paper Award from the Educational Statisticians SIG of AERA.
> Congratulations to Dr. Gregory Hancock, who received the College of Education's 2012 Award for Outstanding Scholarship.
> Congratulations to Dr. Andre Rupp, whose book Diagnostic Measurement: Theory, methods, and applications has received the AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Research Methodology Award.
> Congratulations to Yuan Zhang, who was appointed to serve as Division D Junior Graduate Student Representative for the Graduate Student Council of the American Educational Research Association in 2011-2012.
> EDMS alumna Dr. Karen Douglas and her husband donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni and their families.
> Congratulations to Xiaodong Hou, who accepted a position at AIR as a statistician / econometrician.
> EDMS alumnus Roy Levy was recently named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Click here for more information.
> Recent graduate Min Liu donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni.
> EDMS alumnus Dr. Jaehwa Choi and his wife Dr. Sunhee Kim donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni and their families.
> Dr. Gregory R. Hancock won the 2011 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring by the American Psychological Association, Division 5.
> Recent graduate Hsiu-Fei Wang donated $1000 to EDMS to help fund student-related endeavors. We are most grateful for the continued support of our outstanding alumni.
> Congratulations to Younyoung Choi, winner of a Psychometric Society Travel Award.
> Congratulations to Min Liu, who accepted a position at the University of Hawaii as an Assistant Professor.
> Congratulations to Nidhi Kohli, who accepted a post-doctoral fellow position at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute.
> Congratulations to Ying Li, who accepted a position at AIR as a psychometrician.
> EDMS alumna, Dr. Terry Alban, named superintendent of Frederick County. Click here for more information.
> Nidhi Kohli is the 2011 AERA SIG/EdStat Graduate Student Paper award winner.
> Congratulations to Dr. Robert J. Mislevy on being named Professor Emeritus, and for being appointed the Frederic M. Lord Chair in Measurement and Statistics at Educational Testing Service.
> Congratulations to Ph.D. graduates Will Dardick, Brandi Weiss, Ru Lu, and Hsiu-Fei Wang. Congratulations to M.A. graduates Philip Stablein, Austin Fossey, Jenny Kirkbride, Meredith Mislevy, and Ying Zhang.
> Ru Lu accepted a position at ETS as associate psychometrician.
> Feifei Li accepted a position at ETS as associate psychometrician.
> Hsiu-Fei Wang accepted a position as statistician at inVentiv Clinical Solutions.
> Min Liu received a Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for 2010-2011.
> Dr. André Rupp was named “Outstanding Reviewer for 2009” for the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, for which he will receive an award by the American Educational Research Association.
> Ying Li received an award from the College of Education International Travel Fund to present her research.
> Dr. Bill Schafer was named a Fellow of the American Counseling Association.
> Jessica Mislevy and coauthor won the 2009 Best Paper Award by the North East Association of Institutional Research.
> Hsiu-Fei Wang received an AERA Division D Graduate Student Travel Award.
> Dr. Hong Jiao received an AERA/NSF grant for: "Differential item functioning analysis for testlet-based assessments."
>Dr. Greg Hancock was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.
>Dr. Greg Hancock was named Associate Editor of Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisiplinary Journal.
> Dr. Hong Jiao named a GATE Fellow (Global Awareness in Teacher Education) for the College of Education.
> Dr. Hong Jiao has been appointed co-chair of the AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Measurement and Research Methodology Award Committee.
> Feifei Li welcomed the birth of her son Frank Chen on Aug. 30th!
> Dr. Andre Rupp and Dr. Robert Mislevy received an NSF grant in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin -- AutoMentor: Virtual Mentoring and Assessment in Computer Games for STEM Learning.
> Jing Gao accepted a position as psychometrician at Second Language Testing, Inc., in Rockville, MD.
> Junhui Liu got a summer internship at HumRRO in Kentucky.
> Brandi Weiss won an Ann G. Wylie dissertation fellowship.
> Heather Mann accepted a position as Associate Research Scientist, ETS Research & Development Division, in
the ETS Center for Validity Research.
> Dr. Bob Mislevy received the 2009 Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award from recognition by AERA Division D.
> Jennifer Koran accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and Measurement in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Southern Illinois University.
> Dongyang Li accepted a position as a psychometrician at Prometrics in Baltimore.
> Ying Li and Xiaodong Hou received ACT Summer Internships.
> EDMS Students and Faculty in over *50* sessions at the 2009 AERA/NCME meeting: PDF or Excel
> Dr. Hong Jiao was appointed to the committee of the American Educational Research Association on Significant Contribution for Educational Measurement and Research Methodology.
> Dr. Jeffrey Harring, with Dr. Rebecca Silverman, received an IES grant: "Investigating breadth, depth, & comprehension in English monolingual & Spanish-English bilingual elementary school students."
> Dr. George Macready, with Brandi Weiss, received a grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence for their undergraduate teaching mentorship program.
> Dr. André Rupp received a University of Maryland Graduate Research Board 2009 Summer Research Award for his research project entitled, "Robustness of diagnostic classification models due to model misspecification: Toward a consumer report for multidimensional measurement models."
> Dr. Hong Jiao received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for her research project entitled, "Rasch mixture model for testlet-based assessments."
> Brandi Weiss received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for her research project entitled, "Latent variable models for estimating quadratic relationships in structural equation modeling."
> Dr. André Rupp received a Fall 2008 College of Education SPARC grant for his research project entitled, "Modeling developing expertise through epistemic games:
Quantifying uncertainty about learner profiles."