Soo-yong Byun, Associate Professor of Education and Demography at Penn State University, received an Outstanding Senior Faculty Researcher Award from the Penn State College of Education. The award recognizes the overall impact of one’s research and is typically given to a faculty member who has achieved national and international recognition. Byun (PhD ’07) is affiliated with the Center on Rural Education and Communities as a research associate, with the Center for Evaluation and Educational Policy Analysis as a senior researcher, and with the Population Research Institute as a research affiliate.