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June 2007 > Faculty > Honors
In Brief
Cynthia Coburn Andrea diSessa Randi Engle Zena Mello Mark Wilson
Assistant professor Cynthia Coburn was honored as an outstanding reviewer for her contribution in 2006 to the American Educational Research Journal/SIA. Coburn received the prestigious Palmer Johnson Award at the 2006 AERA Conference for best academic scholarship published in an AERA journal during the 2005 volume year.
Professor Andrea diSessa will join the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) as a fellow while he is on sabbatical during the 2007–08 school year.
Assistant professor Randi Engle was a plenary speaker at a campuswide forum, Cultivating Communities in our Learning Landscape, held on May 2. She spoke on "The Power of Learning Communities... Lessons from Research and Practice."
Zena Mello, Ph.D, a postdoctoral fellow in Cognition and Development, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Human Development from Division E, the Counseling and Human Development Division. Her dissertation, which was completed at Penn State, is entitled "Racial/Ethnic Group and Socioeconomic Status Variation in Educational and Occupational Expectations from Adolescence to Adulthood."
Professor Mark Wilson gave the 11th annual William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture at Educational Testing Service in Princeton on May 31. He discussed the relationships between large-scale and classroom-level assessments. Wilson was also appointed as a member of AERA's Grants Program Governing Board.
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