Kendeou named ‘Most Promising Advisor’ by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly

kendeouPani Kendeou, associate professor in psychological foundations of education with the Department of Educational Psychology, has been selected to receive the 2015 Advising and Mentoring  – Most Promising Advisor Award by the Graduate Student Assembly (GAPSA). The award will be presented to her in a ceremony on May 7 at Coffman Memorial Union.

According to GAPSA, the Advising and Mentoring award acknowledges University of Minnesota advisors’ efforts to help and advise students. One of the youngest advisors to receive this award, Dr. Kendeou was nominated by her students for her commitment to their personal and professional success.

Kendeou joined the Department of Educational Psychology in 2013 from the Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus. She is associate editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology and serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Studies of Reading, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Learning and InstructionDiscourse Processes, and Reading Psychology. She is also a member of the European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D), the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), and the Psychonomic Society.