Dr. Timothy Runge has been named this year’s Outstanding Researcher in the College of Education and Educational Technology and will be honored with a reception in the Breezedale Library on November 4, 2009.

Dr. Edward Levinson, chair of the Department of Educational and School Psychology, and Dr. Denise L. Ohler (D.Ed. ’94) of Edinboro University were co-guest editors of the June 2009 issue of the Journal of Employment Counseling.

Five faculty members, five current graduate students, and seven alumni from the Educational and School Psychology department combined to present twenty-two papers, posters, mini-skills sessions, symposia, and workshops at the 2009 convention of the National Association of School Psychologists held in Boston.

Dr. Gurmal Rattan of the Department of Educational and School Psychology, with IUP graduate Dr. Steven Feifer, coedited the book Emotional Disorders: A Neuropsychological, Psychopharmacological, and Educational Perspective.

Dr. Gurmal Rattan, from the Educational and School Psychology Department, presented the paper “What Do Educators Know About Depression?” to the thirty-second annual conference for the Eastern Educational Research Association.

Dr. Mark McGowan was recently licensed by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology. This license complements his national certification as a school psychologist, a certification he has held for the past five years.

Dr. Timothy Runge was honored as an Early Career Scholar by the Society for the Study of School Psychology in December 2008.