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FSOS welcomes new CFT faculty

Ronald Asiimwe has joined Family Social Science as an assistant professor of couple and family therapy specializing in culturally responsive practices.

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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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FSOS professor honored

Joyce Serido, associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Family Social Science, is a member of the team that has been selected to receive the Best Family Financial Well-Being Paper Award from the National Council on Family…

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FSOS associate professor’s paper wins multiple awards

Virginia Solis Zuiker, associate professor and AFC supervising faculty in Family Social Science, is a co-author of a paper that has been named ”Best Paper in Personal Finance and Consumer Economics” for the Family and Consumer Sciences Research…

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FSOS PhD alumna returns to Minnesota

On the heels of completing a post-doctoral research fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, Gretchen Buchanan, PhD ’21, is joining the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute as a senior researcher in the Redleaf Center for Family Healing.

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Alumni appointed to state board

Damir Utržan has been appointed to a four-year term on the State Advisory Council on Mental Health (MH) by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

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Family Social Science professors awarded grants

Xiaoran Sun, assistant professor, and Lindsey Weiler, associate professor and Family Social Science Department honors faculty representative, have been awarded grants for research projects.

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