The Modern Modeling Methods (M3) conference is an interdisciplinary conference designed to showcase the latest modeling methods and to present research related to these methodologies. The 8th annual M3 conference will be held May 21nd-24th, 2018 at the University of Connecticut. Keynote speakers for the 2018 conference include Dr. Susan Murphy (Harvard University), Dr. Tenko […]

DATIC (www.datic.uconn.edu) is offering 4 workshops at the University of Connecticut in June, 2018: Mixture Modeling, Introduction to Data Analysis in R, Multilevel Modeling in R, and Dyadic Analysis with R.  Registration is now open.  Go to www.datic.uconn.edu  for more information and to register for the workshops.   Mixture Modeling June 4-6, 2018 Dr. Eric […]

Kristen Juskiewicz served as a Program Analyst for the Forensic Audits and Investigative Service team during her Summer 2017 internship with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C. She was assigned to the federal audit of the Affordable Care Act, specifically an audit of the applicant enrollment and eligibility-verification process for the Federal […]

Through a generous $300,000 award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, high school seniors enrolled in the foundation’s Young Scholars Program will be able to pursue areas of interest and advanced learning during a three-week residential program housed on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus in the summer of 2018. Modeled after the Neag School of Education’s Mentor Connection program […]

Neag School alumnus Perry A. Zirkel ’68 MA, ’72 Ph.D., ’76 JD, university professor emeritus of education and law at Lehigh University, this year established the Dr. Perry A. Zirkel Distinguished Teaching Award at the Neag School. The award will be given annually to a full-time Neag School faculty member in recognition of outstanding teaching. […]

Kate Williamson, school psychologist in Darien, CT won the 2018 Ron Edwards Dissertation Award of the Behavioral School Psychology Interest Group (BSPIG) of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP).  The award will be presented at the BSPIG meeting at the NASP Annual Convention in Chicago on February 15, 2018.

UConn’s Office of First Year Programs and Learning Communities has tapped internationally recognized creativity expert and Neag School educational psychology professor Ronald Beghetto as the faculty director of UConn’s Innovation House. https://education.uconn.edu/2017/12/11/uconn-taps-creativity-expert-beghetto-to-lead-innovation-house/

Michael Coyne, who has spent 16 years at UConn, has published 60 peer-reviewed publications in prestigious journals. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator in grant-funded projects exceeding $25 million. His research efforts are widely recognized and have been incorporated into school psychology; general and special education; and educational psychology. His practice and systems […]

In addition to publishing in such top journals as Journal of Educational Psychology, Exceptional Children, and Reading Research Quarterly, Devin Kearns has grants and contracts totaling $7.5 million. He also has collaborated with Vanderbilt University, University of Maryland, and Haskins Laboratory, and has pending projects with Florida State University and the University of South Carolina.

    Congratulations to Elizabeth Howe for winning the Teacher Education Division’s Kaleidoscope Award in Quantitative Research at the November 2017  conference in Savannah Georgia. Ms. Howe is a doctoral fellow in the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UConn.