2011 RECIPIENT OF THE THOMAS F. DONLON MEMORIAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED MENTORING

Sara Finney, a professor at James Madison University, is the 2011 Thomas F. Donlon Mentoring Award winner. Sara is described by her students as a person and professor who always goes above and beyond for her students in terms of both teaching them, helping them with their work and personally bringing them into the professional research community and introducing them to practicing researcher in many different ways but particularly at annual NERA conferences.

Many of her students have said that it is through knowing Sara that they developed their interest in Quantitative Psychology and pursued careers in various quantitative areas and endeavors. Sara's students comment that her feedback to them on many things and not just their work was always timely and apt and particularly so during the dissertation process. Others pointed out that the same was true during the early years of their career. All agreed that Sara was an ideal and deserving recipient of the Donlon Award for Distinguished Mentoring as did the Donlon Committee. Congratulations Sara for a job well done and for your commitment to mentoring young scholars and researchers.