Staff and faculty of the Department of Family Social Science continues to garner accolades for their work supporting students and contributing to the mission at the U of M.
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The Family Social Science community celebrated Virginia Solis Zuiker's career including the establishment of a scholarship in her honor to support graduate students in the department.
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Irene M. Ott (MS ’68), a 2014 recipient of the CEHD Distinguished Alumni Award, and founder of the Irene M. Ott International Fellowship in Family Social Science, passed away on March 26, 2026. She was 94 years old.
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Lindsey Weiler, associate professor in Family Social Science, has been honored with the 2025 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Board on Health and Human Sciences (BHHS), based in…
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CEHD Connect Magazine is published in print three times a year and online by the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development for alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the college.
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Xiaoran Sun, assistant professor in Family Social Science in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), is the recipient of a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2026-2028. She joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 2021.
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The Family Social Science Spring Undergraduate Showcase highlights students' community collaborations and research.
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Lindsey Weiler, associate professor in Family Social Science, is the recipient of a 2025-26 Horace T. Morse - University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
READ STORY Two members of the Family Social Science community will be honored in March with the UMN President's Community-Engaged Scholar Award.
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Two Family Social Science PhD students have been awarded the University's prestigous Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship.
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Michael Curtis, FSoS assistant professor, has been awarded a University grant to study suicide ideation among young Black men.
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