*Dr. Li-Jen Kuo*, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, has been named a 2008-10 *National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow*. The fellowship is administered by the National Academy of Education, an honorary educational society and is funded by a grant from the Spencer Foundation. The fellowship is one of the most prestigious sources of support for education research, nationally or internationally, for recent recipients of the doctorate.
With this fellowship, Dr. Kuo will conduct a research project that investigates the similarities and differences in language and literacy development between monolingual children and bilingual children. The project will involve English-speaking monolinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals, and Chinese-English bilinguals. Graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in the project should contact Dr. Kuo at lijenkuo@niu.edu for research assistantship opportunities.