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Methodologists discuss cross-cultural measurement

Leslie Hawley, Betty-Jean Usher-Tate and Sara Gonzalez.

The Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics continued its Methodology Applications Series on Friday, April 15. The series is free and open to the public.

The April 15 presentation, titled “Evaluating Measurement Invariance with Cross-Cultural Sensitivity,” was led by Leslie Hawley, CYFS research assistant professor, and doctoral students Betty-Jean Usher-Tate and Sara Gonzalez. Full Article

Fritz invited to Penn State for methodology presentation

Matt Fritz

CYFS faculty affiliate Matt Fritz was invited to give a presentation at The Pennsylvania State University on March 23 as part of the Prevention and Methodology Training colloquia series. He shared a presentation titled “The mediated effect is significant, so I’m done, right? Thinking critically about testing and interpreting mediated effects in prevention interventions.” Full Article

Faculty affiliates earn professorships, teaching awards

From top left: Martha Mamo, Kathleen Rudasill, Kimberly Tyler, Edward Daly, Jody Koenig Kellas, Scott Napolitano, Jordan Soliz

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded professorships to three CYFS faculty affiliates:

Martha Mamo was named Aaron Douglas/John E. Weaver Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture. The professorship recognizes faculty members with the rank of full professor who demonstrate sustained levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for instructional activities and/or practice. Full Article