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Robert (Bob) delMas, PhD, emeritus professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program, recently was honored by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) with the George Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education. Dr. delMas received his award from his former students and QME alumni Elizabeth […]

Norman Sprinthall, EdD, died on March 8, 2022 at 90 years-old. From 1971 to 1983, he was a professor and chair of the counseling and student personnel psychology program (now counselor education) in the Department of Educational Psychology. Along with his colleague Ralph Mosher, Sprinthall developed the Deliberate Psychological Education (DPE) model. In an article […]

Robert (Bob) delMas, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education program, has been honored by the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE) for his contributions to the field of statistics education in an article, “An Interview with Bob delMas.” Dr. delMas, who is retiring in May 2022, […]

Keisha Varma, associate vice provost of equity and diversity and associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, was recently honored with the 2022 President’s Award for Outstanding Service. This award recognizes exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units by an active or retired faculty or staff member. Recipients of […]

Corissa Rohloff, PhD student in the quantitative methods of education (QME) program in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group (SIG) Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper, “The Impact of Functional Form Complexity on Model Overfitting for Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models.” Rohloff’s […]

Kathy Seifert, PhD, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Educational Psychology and senior lecturer in special education—has been honored by the University of Minnesota Alumni Association with a 2022-2023 Horace T. Morse Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. The Horace T. Morse Award reflects the University’s strong and enduring commitment to outstanding […]

Once again, several Department of Educational Psychology programs placed high on the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools annual rankings. The department ranked #10 for educational psychology and special education on the 2023 list. Counselor education also placed high, coming in at 12th this year. Specialty program rankings are based on nominations by education school deans and deans of […]

Julio Caésar—an alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology’s quantitative methods in education (QME) program—was honored with an Outstanding Dissertation Competition (ODC) award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), co-sponsored by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Dr. Caésar received the award for his dissertation, Standardized bilingual assessments: Meeting the demands of the […]

Pat King, PhD ’77, was recently honored with an American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Lifetime Achievement Award. King, an alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology, has been at the University of Michigan since 2003, is now a professor of higher education in the School of Education’s (SOE’s) Center for the Study of Higher and […]

Amy Kunkel is a new assistant teaching professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s special education program. We talked with Dr. Kunkel, also a PhD alumni of the special education program, about the path to her current role at the University of Minnesota. How did you become interested in your area of expertise? As an […]