FSOS faculty and students on national stage
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, to officially receive the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award. Here is the full story.
Catherine Solheim, professor, will be recognized with Fellow status from NCFR. Learn more about Solheim.
Graduate student Athena Chan has been honored with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Mentoring and Career Development Technical Assistance Workshop Junior Investigator Diversity Fellow Travel Award. It partially supported her GSA conference registration fee and provided opportunities to attend professional development workshops prior to the conference as well as mentor with a scholar in the gerontological field in the upcoming year. In addition, she presented two posters at the conference.
Yiting Li and Miguel Quinones have been awarded scholarships to attend (virtually) the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE) Symposium. The scholarships also includes one-year memberships for both. In addition, Quinones has been awarded a National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Student Access Grant to attend the annual conference that also includes one year of membership.
A presentation/poster co-authored by Nusroon Fatiha and Tai Mendenhall, “Diabetes Management and Family Support for Older Populations: A Systemic Review,” has been awarded the National Council on Family Relations Issues in Aging Focus Group SNP Award.
Student presentations at NCFR
Nusroon Fatiha, poster presentation, “Diabetes Management and Family Support For Older Population: A Systematic Review.”
Aditi Gupta, oral presentation in Symposium, “Stealth Wealth: Understanding and Improving Financial Decision-Making of Emerging Adults.”
Erin Guyette, second author presentation, “Identifying assessment tools of child-centered communication for the development and evaluation of divorce education programs.”
Malina Her, poster presentation, “Good Parenting: Comparing Hmong American Parents’ Ideas About Being a Good Parent From First-Generation to Second-Generation.”
Seonghee Hong, poster presentations, (first author), “Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Goals: A Qualitative Study (2)Third Author: Workplace Predictors of Parent Educators’ Technology Acceptance Attitudes.”
Angela Keyzers, presenter, “Adolescent Internalizing, Externalizing and Parent-Child Relationship Quality: Associations With Adolescent Disclosure and Secrecy.”
Samantha LeBouef, poster presentations, “Parent-Adolescent Use of Technology to Avoid Face-to-Face Interaction,” and “Family Dynamics in the Digital World: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Data From Interviews, Social Media, and Smartphones.”
Sun-Kyung Lee, poster presentation, “Workplace Predictors of Parent Educators’ Technology Acceptance Attitudes.”
Jessica Simpson, presenter, “’I Lost My Family’: Grief, Loss, and Identity Formation of Fostered and Adopted American Indian Individuals.”
Olivia Tomfohrde, paper presentation, “Parents’ Perceptions of a Mentoring-Based Support for Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.”
Student presentation at American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Annual Conference
Jessica Simpson, “Beyond Borders: Reunifying Families in Family Therapy.”
Student presentations at 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Gretchen Buchanan, presenter,” Optimizing integrated care implementation in primary care settings using latent class analysis.”
Student presentation at Collaborative Family Healthcare Association conference
Gretchen Buchanan, presenter,” Implementing Integrated Behavioral Healthcare in Varied Clinical Settings and Associations with Health Equity.”