Graduate School Dean Carol Erting (left), and Educational Foundations and Research Department Chair Barbara Gerner De Garcia (right) congratulate Educational Foundations and Research professor Donna Mertens on the publication of three of her books in the past year. Dr. Mertens authored Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity with Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods (Sage, 2010, now in its third edition), and Transformative Research and Evaluation (Guilford Press, 2009). She is co-editor of The Handbook of Social Research Ethics (co-edited by Pauline Ginsberg, Sage, 2009).