FSoS graduate students share their summer highlights

Graduate students in Family Social Science continue down their path to degree  completion with first-author paper achievements and dissertation prep over the summer.   

Nusroon Fatiha and Soyoul Song have launched research projects in preparation for  their doctoral dissertations.  

Guanyu Wang has had her initial first-author paper published this summer. Wang's paper, "Parental stressful life events predict young-adult internalizing through parent– adolescent relationship quality," was published in the Journal of Family Psychology. Her  co-authors were Timothy Piehler, FSoS associate professor, and T. Ha. Read the article. 

Kay He was awarded $5,000 from the Mental Research Institute for her research  project, "Exploring Adolescents' Emotion Regulation in Mentoring: The Role of Mentors'  Emotion Management Strategies and the Mentoring Process."  

Elizabeth Hruska, Celia Lee, and Eunyoung Park collaborated with Jodi Dworkin, professor and extension specialist, on the UMN Extension Guide, "Raising digital  citizens."  

Park also presented the poster, "Longitudinal Changes in Inhibitory Control and  Attention in Early Adolescents with Excessive Screen Time Use," at the 2025 Digital  Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress in Washington, D.C. 

Lee will represent FSoS at the Summer Institute of Computational Social Science  (SICSS) at Stanford University in August. SICSS is an intensive, interdisciplinary  program that  brings together scholars from across the  globe to use computational tools to better understand complex social phenomena.

Haoran Zhou has passed the FSoS preliminary oral exam and officially became a  doctoral candidate. He was also co-author of research poster presented at the Medical  Family Therapy conference co-hosted by FSoS and the AAMFT MedFT Topic of  Interest Network in July. His collaborators included fellow FSoS graduate students  Umme Kawser and Soyoul Song.

Chandima Herath spent eight weeks in Thailand supported by a CEHD Mary T. Scholar graduate fellowship where she interned with the Center for Girls Foundation (CFGF). The organization is based in Northern Thailand and focuses on preventing human trafficking, gender-based violence, and child abuse, while also promoting gender equality. She participated in a variety of events, including the United Nations Women Peace and Security Network meeting at Chiang Rai. In addition, she also designed CFGF's 2024 annual report.