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  • 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.