Articles

Answering the call to create community and connect with alumni and friends isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic, five Family Social Science faculty members will be sharing their research and expertise over the next two months in live and pre-recorded interviews and webinars. Tai Mendenhall, associate professor, will share strategies to improve the balance between self-care […]

As we settle in to our remote work routines and disrupted family lives, anxiety and stress may still be circulating in our collective psyches. Dr. Pauline Boss, professor emeritus of Family Social Science and a ground-breaking family therapist, says giving it a name can help. She calls those unresolved feelings ambiguous loss – loss without […]

Unanswered questions, uncertainty and the disruption of family and work life due to COVID-19 causing a pandemic of anxiety and distress. What can help? Pauline Boss, professor emeritus of Family Social Science, says giving it a name is a start. “What is distressing us is not just the virus, but the ambiguity surrounding it, what […]

A paper authored by Yiting Li, Ph.D. candidate in Family Social Science, has won the 2019 Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education® (AFCPE®) Outstanding Symposium Student Paper Award. Her proposal, “A Decade Review of Publications in Family Financial Socialization, Young Couples, & Financial Behaviors: 2007 – 2017,” was chosen by the AFCPE Symposium Task […]

FSOS associate professor Tai Mendenhall’s research project The East Metro American Indian Diabetes Initiative (EMAIDI) is the recipient of the 2017 Ramsey County Public Health Award. Mendenhall is the co-PI on this project, which is funded by the Minnesota Department of Health and NIH/Stanford Health. The EMAIDI is composed of four core team members who represent […]

In a recent Star Tribune article about how kids spend their summers, Family Social Science associate professor Jodi Dworkin says it’s okay for kids to be bored. Every year, parents in Minnesota face the quandary of what to do with their children during the summer, when school is not in session, according to a recent […]

Department of Family Social Science department head and professor Dr. Lynne Borden received a $3.49 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant is part of USDA-NIFA’s Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Program and provides funds for the Professional Development and Technical Assistance […]

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Dr. Jean Bauer.