Kenneth A. Bollen is the Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a leading expert in structural equation models and author of Structural Equations with Latent Variables (1989). Kenneth's pioneering work has earning him many prestigious awards including the Psychometric Society's Career Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Lazarsfeld Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology, and the Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research.