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Family Social Science Research Colloquium welcomes nationally renowned LGBTQ+ scholar
The Department of Family Social Science will hold a Research Colloquium Wednesday, October 2, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in 274 McNeal Hall on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus.
FSOS graduate student awarded NCFR dissertation award
Doneila McIntosh, doctoral candidate, has been awarded the John L. and Harriette P. McAdoo Dissertation Award from the National Council on Family Relations' Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Families section.
Academic community mourns loss of former dean and professor
The academic community mourns the loss of Shirley Baugher (Colmeneres), a former dean of the College of Human Ecology and professor of Family Social Science, who died on July 17 in Trenton, Missouri. She was 75 years old.
FSOS Parent and Family Ed programs win state grant
The Minnesota Department of Higher Education awarded a Early Childhood and Family Education Teacher Shortage Grant to the Family Social Science Parent and Early Childhood Education Teacher Shortage Scholarship program.
OPINION: Time to reduce the rancor, Minnesota
Bill Doherty, professor emeritus in Family Social Science, and Jeffrey Thiemann, a retired pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, co-wrote this op/ed that appeared in the July 28 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
FSOS graduate student seeks parents for research project
Janet Driscoll, a graduate student in Family Social Science, seeks parents to participate in a research project she is conducting.
Three FSOS students named Wallin Building Strong Families Scholars
Wallin Education Partners awarded three Family Social Science undergraduates scholarships.
