Honors and Awards

Xingruo (Summer) Zhang Awarded PhD Program Award for Public Health Sciences

Xingruo (Summer) Zhang has been awarded the PhD Program Award for Public Health Sciences during the 2024 convocation ceremonies in the Divisional Academic Ceremony. Summer’s exceptional dissertation, “Obtaining More Information from Location Scale Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data: Effect Sizes, Diagnostics, and Latent Classes,” has earned her this prestigious recognition. Her advisor is Donald Hedeker.

Summer’s dedication, innovative research, and outstanding achievements have distinguished her as a leading scientist in her field. Congratulations to Summer!

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