Holly Laws, Lecturer and Research Methodologist for the Center for Research on Families, has received a fall 2017 Lecturers’ Professional Development Fund award from the College of Natural Sciences. This award of $1,000 will be used towards Laws' professional development in statistical training, to further develop her methodological skill set and support teaching of an advanced statistical course. She will continue her training in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Mplus, giving her valuable tools to use towards the development of her future courses.