dr.lisaharlow

Lisa L. Harlow, Ph.D.

Lisa L. Harlow is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island where she has taught courses in quantitative methods for over 25 years to over 3,000 students. She received her PhD in Psychometrics from UCLA in 1985 and focuses on increasing interest, diversity, and retention in science-related fields. Dr. Harlow has more than 70 scholarly publications and approximately 50 published abstracts related to structural equation modeling, science education and equity, multivariate methods, health psychology, and psycho-existential functioning. She published several books, including The Essence of Multivariate Thinking and a co-edited volume on What if there were no significance tests?

Honors/awards include: 2012 University of Rhode Island Scholarly Excellence Award, 2010-2011 President of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 2009 Distinguished Fellowship, IAS, Australia; American Psychological Association (APA) Fellow: Divisions 2, (Teaching), 5 (Statistics) and 38 (Health); Fulbright Award, York University, Canada; APA Jacob Cohen Teaching-Mentoring Award; APA Division 5 Past-President; Multivariate Application Book Series Editor for Lawrence Erlbaum/Taylor Francis; former Associate Editor of the Structural Equation Modeling Journal; and current Associate Editor of Psychological Methods.

Dr. Harlow is also the co-Director of a Quantitative Training for Underrepresented Groups conference since 2004 (with Dr. Herbert Eber and others); and has received more than $7,600,000 in grants related to advancing science, health psychology, and quantitative training. Dr. Harlow is the Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation Grant No. 0720063 which largely supported QTUG 2008 - 2012.