In The News

Candise Lin, doctoral candidate in the Human Development program has received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. November 2012
The following HDQM Faculty received recognition for their outstanding achievements: Patricia A. Alexander (Regents Faculty Award for Mentoring); Ann A. Battle (COE Distinguished Outreach Award); Gregory Hancock (COE Distinguished Scholarship Award); Melanie Killen (Director of Graduate Studies of the Year Award); Andre Rupp (AERA Division D Significant Contribution to Research Methodology Award); and both Natasha Cabrera and Meredith Rowe (ADVANCE Award). Summer 2012
Several graduate students from the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology were recognized for their research and scholarship this spring. They include: Melanie Hong (Summer Research Award); Yoonjeong Kang (Graduate Student Best Paper Award, Educational Statisticians SIG of AERA); Kathryn Leech (IGERT Fellowship Award); Candise Lin (First Prize – Graduate Research Interaction Day); Jenessa Malin (Mathematica Policy Research Summer Fellowship); Kelly Lynn Mulvey (Ann Wyle Dissertation Fellowship and APF's Elizabeth M. Koppitz Fellowship); Lauren White (Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship and COE Outstanding Graduate Student – Honorable Mention); Ting Zhang (AERA Dissertation Grant); and jointly Emily Grossnickle and Alexandra List (Second Place, Graduate Research Interaction Day). Summer 2012
Carolyn Barber, Ph.D. Human Development alumni is named 2011 Outstanding New Scholar for the College of Education. October 2011
The Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland has received its renewal award for its National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Training Program in Social Development for 2011-2016. May 2011
Human Development graduate students earn top University fellowships. May 2011
The Department of Human Development awards its 2011 Dr. Rachel Petty Dissertation Award. May 2011
Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Human Development doctoral candidate, was selected to be a plenary speaker at the GRID Conference on April 6th. March 2011
Ting Zhang, Human Development graduate student, has been awarded the AERA Dissertation Grant. March 2011
Dr. Judith Torney-Purta wins 2011 Marion Langer Award for Social Advocacy in Pursuit of Human Rights. March 2011
EDHD Graduate Student, Kelly Lynn Mulvey receives 2010 Grants-in-Aid from SPSSI December 2010
Ting Zhang, EDHD doctoral student is the sole 2010 recipient of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Distinguished Student Scholarship. June 2010
Human Development faculty and students receive Summer Research Awards. 5/30/2010
Second Annual Graduate Student Appreciation Pie Contest Results 5/14/2010
Dr. Kathryn Wentzel wins College of Education Outstanding Scholarship Award May 2010
Nicole Denmark, Human Development graduate student wins College of Education Outstanding Doctoral Student Award May 2010
Human Development doctoral students received recognition at the UM’s annual Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID). 04/19/10
EDHD graduate student, Ting Zhang, receives AERA Research in Social Studies Education SIG2010 Graduate Student Scholarship 03/31/10
Maryland's Educational Psychology Program ranks first in scholarly productivity 02/25/10
EDHD Assistant Professor, Donald J. Bolger earns University of Maryland 2010 Summer Research and Support Award. 01/10/10
Dr. Natasha Cabrera won the award for Best Research Article Award from the National Council on Family Relations. 11/20/09
Dr. Meredith Rowe joins the Human Development faculty as an assistant professor 09/11/09
Human Development professor Elisa Klein has been awarded an SRCD Executive Branch Policy Fellowship for the next academic year 07/24/09
Human development Professors Fox and Bolger play leading roles in the University's new fMRI imaging center 07/13/09
EDHD Professor Melanie Killen wins an Honorable Mention for this year's Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize. 06/18/09
The 2009 Rachel Petty Dissertation Awards were given to Cassandra Coddington and Nicole Denmark 05/21/09
EDHD Professor Kenneth Rubin selected for the Mentoring Award from the Developmental Psychology Division of the APA. 05/14/09
EDHD Graduate Student, Meghan Parkinson awarded Fellowship 05/14/09
Bridget Fredstrom and Cameron Richardson are awarded 2009 University of Maryland Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships. 05/14/09
EDHD holds its first annual Pie Contest. 05/14/09
Alaina Brenick, Alexis Williams, and Megan Clark Kelly to receive Center for Teaching Excellence 2008-2009 Distinguished Teaching Assistants Certificates on 5/13 05/08/09
The Center for Young Children celebrates its 60th anniversary on April 25 (Maryland Day) 04/21/09
Allan Wigfield receives University of Illinois Distinguished Alumni Award 02/28/09
Dr. Nathan Hall joins the EDHD faculty as an assistant professor 01/13/09
Kathryn Wentzel and Judith Torney-Purta appointed co-editors of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 12/15/08
Nathan Fox elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 12/15/08
Professor Judith Torney Purta has been selected as the recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) 2009 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology. 12/04/08
Research Spotlight: Dr. Donald J. Bolger 10/27/08
Research Spotlight: Dr. Geetha Ramani 08/28/08
Dr. Patricia Alexander named Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy. 7/10/08
APA Science Summer Fellows Come to EDHD 06/26/08
EDHD is pleased to announce the hiring of three new tenure-track faculty: Dr. Donald J. Bolger, Dr. Nathan Hall, and Dr. Meredith Rowe. 06/10/08
Dr. Min Wang and Dr. Natasha Cabrera were promoted to associate professor with tenure. 04/08/08
Dr. Patricia Alexander received the Sylvia Scribner award from Division C (Learning and Instruction) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 03/13/08
Beginning in mid-March Dr. Brenda Jones Harden will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington School of Social Work. 03/13/08
Professor Nathan Fox named Distinguished University Professor 01/08
Dr. Melanie Killen named University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher for 2008-09 01/08
Dr. Ken Rubin recently won a major award from the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development... 01/08

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