All students are invited to attend MCPER's second annual Mollie Villeret Davis Distinguished Lecture Series Morning Symposium from 10 a.m to 12:15 p.m. on April 26 in the Dean's Conference Room (SZB 238). Presentations will focus on research surrounding autism spectrum disorders, including the following titles: "An Evaluation of Resurgence of Appropriate Communicative Responses in Children With Developmental Disabilities," "Effects of the Instructional Use of an iPad on Challenging Behavior and Academic Engagement for Students With Autism," "Increasing Eye Contact When Manding," "Functional Communication Training: Technology Utilization for Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders," and "A Comparison of Discrimination Training and Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing Procedures to Increase Vocalizations of Children With Autism." Presenters will represent The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, Baylor University, and Texas Christian University. The program discussant will be Dr. Charles Mace of Nova Southeastern University. The symposium will offer 2.5 Behavior Analyst Certification Board continuing education units.

A paper by MCPER's Myriam Lopez has been selected as one of the top three submissions for the Division of Measurement and Research Methodology In-Progress Research Gala, to be held during the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association from April 13 to 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Lopez, a researcher in the Translational Research Institute, will find out during the conference whether her paper, "The Estimation of Latent Variable Interactions: A Comparison of the Unconstrained and the Latent Moderated Structural Equations Approach for Parceled and Individual Items," is the overall winner. She also will be honored at a business luncheon.