Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Statistical Mediation Analysis (Presenter: David MacKinnon)

Stephanie Lanza receives Society for Prevention Research Early Career Award

Special issue in Developmental Psychology, New Methods for New Questions in Developmental Psychology (edited by E. Michael Foster and Ariel Kalil) published

Stephanie Lanza receives R03 funded by NIDA for two years (direct costs: $100,000)

Runze Li and Lisa Dierker (Wesleyan University) receive R21 funded under NIH Roadmap Initiative for four years (direct costs: $1,000,000)

Linda Collins and Daniel Rivera (Arizona State University) receive R21 funded under NIH Roadmap Initiative for four years (direct costs: $1,000,000)

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Mixed Models for Longitudinal Continuous and Dichotomous Data (Presenter: Donald Hedeker) and Practical Tools for Causal Inference (Presenter: Joseph Schafer)

Linda Collins named President-elect of the Society for Prevention Research

Supplemental issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence edited by Susan Murphy, Linda Collins and John Rush, entitled “Customizing Treatment to the Patient: Adaptive Treatment Strategies” is published

Pilot test of one-credit graduate courses begins with Introduction to Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis (Instructors: Linda Collins and Stephanie Lanza) and Introduction to Missing Data (Instructor: John Graham); Pilot test is a success and more courses are planned for Spring 2008

Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data, edited by Theodore Walls and Joseph Schafer, is published by Oxford University Press

Design and Modeling for Computer Experiments, by Kai-Tai Fang, Runze Li and Agus Sudjianto, is published by Chapman and Hall

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at the Penn Stater Conference Center: Causal Analysis (Presenter: Christopher Winship)

Statistics and Computing: Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95, by David Lemmon and Joseph Schafer, is published by Springer

Michael Foster joins the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, but continues his involvement with The Methodology Center

Second competitive renewal application for P50 Center grant funded by NIDA for five years (direct costs: $6,904,845)

HDFS/Methodology Center graduate student Tammy Root receives three-year fellowship from NIDA (direct costs: $104,157)

Competitive Renewal of R13 for Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods funded by NIDA for five years (direct costs: $125,000)

Prevention and Methodology Training grant funded by NIDA for five years; Principal Investigators: Mark Greenberg, Edward Smith (Prevention Research Center) and Linda Collins (The Methodology Center); Grant funds slots for 6-8 predoctoral fellows and 3 postdoctoral fellows to receive training that is a joint effort of the two Centers; Goal is to train scientists interested in the integration of prevention science and cutting-edge methodology

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Survival Analysis (Presenter: Paul Allison)

Second competitive renewal of P50 Center grant submitted to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), entitled Center for Prevention and Treatment Methodology; Principal Investigators are Linda Collins (HDFS), Michael Foster (HPA), Stephanie Lanza (Methodology Center), Runze Li (Statistics), Susan Murphy (Statistics), and Joe Schafer (Statistics)

Susan Murphy named H.E. Robbins Professor, Department of Statistics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Linda Collins receives K05 senior scientist award funded by NIDA for five years (direct costs: $571,500)

Stephanie Lanza named Scientific Director, The Methodology Center

Runze Li receives NSF Career Award funding for five years

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Analyzing Developmental Trajectories (Presenter: Daniel Nagin)

Linda Collins receives Society for Prevention Research Presidential Award (co-recipient: John Graham)

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence (Presenters: John Willet and Judith Singer)

Supplemental issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, edited by Linda Collins, Brian Flaherty, and Suzanne Colby, entitled “Measurement and Design Issues in Tobacco and Drug Use Research” is published

Susan Murphy receives K02 Independent Scientist award funded by NIDA for five years from NIDA (direct costs: $605,408)

Runze Li joins The Methodology Center as a component PI

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies (Presenter: Joseph L. Schafer)

New Methods for the Analysis of Change, edited by Linda Collins and Aline Sayer, is published by the American Psychological Association

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Longitudinal Modeling using Mplus (Presenters: Bengt O. Muthen and Linda K. Muthen)

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First competitive renewal of P50 Center grant funded by NIDA for five years (direct costs: $4,439,602)

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Integrating Design and Analysis (Presenter: Richard Campbell) and Mixed Models (Presenter: Donald Hedeker)

The Methodology Center starts weekly Brown Bag Series; Series continues today

Linda Collins receives 2000 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement

First competitive renewal application of P50 Center grant entitled Center for Prevention Methodology, submitted to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Principal Investigators are Linda Collins (HDFS), Zhen Lou (Statistics), Susan Murphy (Statistics), and Joe Schafer (Statistics)

Joe Schafer receives Society for Prevention Early Career Award

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at the Penn Stater Conference Center: Structural Equation Modeling (Presenters: John J. McArdle and Michael Neale)

Multivariate Behavioral Research Special Issue: Innovative Methods for Prevention Research, Vol. 33(4), edited by Linda Collins (Guest Editor) and Roger Millsap (Editor), is published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

New Methods for the Analysis of Change Conference held at the Penn Stater Conference Center, funded by American Psychological Association

R13 for Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods funded by NIDA for five years (direct costs: $145,265)

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Stater Conference Center: Methods for Categorical Longitudinal Data (Presenters: Linda Collins and David Rindskopf)

Susan Murphy joins University of Michigan, but continues her involvement with The Methodology Center

Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data by Joseph Schafer is published by Chapman and Hall

Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at the The Penn State Scanticon Conference Center, funded by the Program Innovation Fund in Continuing and Distance Education at Penn State

Pilot Summer Institute on Longitudinal Methods held at The Penn Scanticon Conference Center

P50 Center grant funded by NIDA for four years (direct costs: $2,702,982) after six-month delay due to federal government shutdown

Center for Developmental and Health Research Methodology name changed to The Methodology Center

First P50 center grant application, entitled Center for the Study of Prevention through Innovative Methodology submitted to National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Principal Investigators are Linda Collins (HDFS), John Graham (BBH), Susan Murphy (Statistics), Aline Sayer (HDFS), Joe Schafer (Statistics)

Linda Collins named Director of the Center for Developmental and Health Research Methodology

Linda M. Collins joins Penn State as Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Alexander von Eye joins Michigan State University

Conference on Analysis of Categorical Data in Developmental Research held at Penn State, sponsored by The Methodology Center

Conference on Analysis of Latent Variable and Developmental Research held at Penn State, sponsored by The Methodology Center

John Nesselroade joins University of Virginia and Alex von Eye appointed Director of the Center