Interdisciplinary Seminar: Dr. Kenneth A. Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

September 19, 2024

An Overview of Latent Growth Curve Models in Longitudinal Studies of Aging

Presented by Dr.Kenneth A. Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Friday, September 27th, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm ET
In-Person: ASB Administrative Services Building, 2nd Floor,
Center on Aging Conference Room, UConn Health Center
Virtual: Meeting Link
Meeting # 276 939 196 348
Password: FkqaGk
Microsoft Teams

Kenneth A. Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is also a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center and a member of their Methods Core. Bollen has been at UNC since 1985. From 2000 to 2010, he served as the Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC. He is the former Chair of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and is an elected Fellow of several scholarly organizations, including the American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association of Psychological Science.

Bollen’s primary research focus is the creation and application of new statistical tools for the social and behavioral sciences, with specializations in structural equation models, latent variables, and longitudinal modeling. Most of his current applications are in population and health studies. Google Scholar lists over 112,000 citations to his work. His methodological contributions have been recognized with lifetime achievement awards in two disciplines, Sociology (Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in the Field of Sociological Methodology, 2000) and Psychology (Career Award for Lifetime Achievement. Psychometric Society, 2018). In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University (Sweden). In 2023, Woxsen University, a private university in Hyderabad, India, established the Kenneth A. Bollen Chair of Structural Equation Modeling in honor of his academic contributions.