Congratulation to Mike Scheel for receiving a $100,000 grant from the Woods Charitable Fund.
Congratulations to Kevin Kupzyk for receiving the Stuart C. Tentoni Outstanding Professional Development Program Award from the Committee of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS).
Congratulations to Ian Newman for receiving a $375,000 grant from the US DoE for working on Safe & Drug-Free schools and communities.
Congratulations to Ken Kiewra for having his research cited in Time.com.
Congratulations to Sue Sheridan on receiving a $10 million grant for establishing the National Center for Research on Rural Education (R2Ed) in Nebraska.
Congratulations to Merilee McCurdy, Ed Daly, Tanya Ihlo, and Gina Kunz on receiving a Personnel Preparation grant. This four-year $800,000 grant will support School Psyc master's level students for 2 years and allow them to specialize in Response to Intervention.
Congratulations to Beth Doll on receiving the UNL Outstanding Service to Graduate Students award.
Congratulations to Doug Kauffman on receiving a Layman award.
Congratulations to Jim Bovaird on his appointment as Secretary of APA Division 5.
Congratulations to Carrie Blevins, School Psychology, on receiving the Society for Research on Child Development Dissertation Award.
Congratulations to Sue Sheridan, Lisa Knoche, and their KU partners, Judy Carta and Charles Greenwood, on receiving a $1.5 million IES grant for the “Development of a Three-Tiered Model in Early Intervention to Address Language and Literacy Needs of Children at Risk.”
Congratulations to Ian Newman on receiving the Dermot Coyne Exemplary Services to International Students Award.
Congratulations to Alejandro Morales for receiving the Cynthia De La Fuentes Dissertation Award.
Congratulations to Christy Horn for receiving a DOE grant for Building Accepting Campus Communities. The approximately $1,000,000 grant is for developing online modules on best practices for how to accommodate students with disabilities in college courses.
Congratulations to Bob Brown, Roger Bruning, Janet Carlson, RJ De Ayala, and Kurt Geisinger for being awarded Fellow status in AERA.
Congratulations to Brandy Clarke (School Psychology) for receiving the APA Division 16's (School Psychology) Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award.
Congratulations to Jim Bovaird on receiving the CEHS Early Career Research/Creative Activity Award.
Congratulations to John Creswell on receiveing the Senior Fullbright Fellowship to visit South Africa.
Congratulations to Mike Scheel on becoming the Chair-elect of the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs.
Tanya Razzhavaikina received an award from APA Division 17, Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science for her dissertation research, Mandatory Counseling: A Mixed Methods Study of Factors that contribute to the Development of the Working Alliance.
Congratulations to Sherry Wang (Counseling Psychology) on receiving the APA Minority Fellowship.
Dr. Sheridan was reappointed to another 5-year term as a Willa Cather Professor.
Drs. Buhs and McCurdy were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure.
Oksana Yakushko has been awarded the American Women in Psychology Oliva Espin Social Justice Award for her work on immigrant women, gender, and social justice.
Kurt Geisinger has been awarded APA Division 5's 2008 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring
Kurt Geisinger is the President-elect of APA's Coalition of Academic, Scientific and Applied Psychology
Janet Carlson is the President-elect of APA's Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Congratulations to the Counseling and School Psychology programs on their 100% match rate for their respective doctoral internships.
Dr. Sheridan was the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Commencement address speaker, August, 2007.
Congratulations to Christy Horn for receiving the Chancellor's 2007 MLK Fulfilling the Dream award.
