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Chalandra M. Bryant, professor and Pauline Boss Faculty Fellow in Ambiguous Loss in the Department of Family Social Science, has been awarded a $15,000 research grant from the Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).  In addition to Dr. Bryant, the research team includes Joyce Serido, associate professor and extension specialist in FSOS; […]

Dr. Tabitha Grier-Reed, professor, and Miguel Quiñones, graduate student, in the Department of Family Social Science, will present recent published research at the CEHD Scholar Spotlight, a new forum for researchers to present their recent groundbreaking publications to the College of Education and Human Development community. For academic year 2020-21, “Scholar Spotlight: Centering Race”, is […]

Family Social Science faculty and graduate students have been recognized with honors and awards from national associations in the family science, marriage and family therapy and gerontological fields. They will also share their research at national conferences this month supported by generous donors to the Ruth E. Hall Travel Grant Fund. Tai Mendenhall, associate professor, […]

Tai Mendenhall, medical family therapist and associate professor in the Department of Family Social Science, has been honored with the Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award from the Families and Health Section of the National Council on Family Relations. The award announcement stated,  “it is important to note that you stood out among other very strong […]

A Family Social Science research team examined the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on refugee and immigrant families in Minnesota. Collaborating with 19 community-based health and human services organizations, the team’s findings illustrate the depth of challenges faced by these often under-resourced populations. Their study was supported by an FSOS COVID-19 mini-grant program. […]

Elder family financial exploitation (EFFE) is a one of the most prevalent types of elder abuse affecting approximately 1 in 15 older adults and their families.   Would you recognize exploitation if you saw  it in your own family?  Do you know what action to take now to help prevent EFFE in your family?  To learn […]

Joyce Serido, associate professor and extension specialist in Family Social Science, has been awarded a Mary T. O’Neill mini-grant from the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE). She and her Extension colleague, Sharon Powell, will develop a financial toolkit to engage underserved youth in a process of financial self-discovery to raise awareness about […]

As the majority of U.S. colleges and universities transitioned to remote learning during March 2020 and subsequently spent the summer planning for an uncertain fall semester, a research team in Family Social Science began planning how they could examine what parents of college students were experiencing as they coped with these decisions and transitions. Jodi […]

Family Social Science PhD alumna Emily Jordan Jensen steps into her dream job this fall as a resident faculty member in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS) at the U of M.  She joins a team of five resident faculty members in CCAPS’ Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Integrated Behavioral Health program […]

Armeda Stevenson Wojciak will join the University of Minnesota in August to lead the nationally accredited Couple and Family Therapy program – a doctoral degree in the Department of Family Social Science.     She previously served as an associate professor and program director of the Couple and Family Therapy program at the University of […]