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Poehlmann-Tynan on WPR: paid leave; reducing stresses on families & babies
HDFS Alumna to compete in her third Winter Olympics
February 2/2022 – In opening game Team USA’s Brianna Decker collided with Finland’s Ronja Savolainen, causing devastating injury to her left leg taking Decker out of the tournament and Olympic Games. Source: Washington Post Three …
Halpern-Meekin talks with NBC-15 about changes to childcare tax credit
Black fathers’ personal histories, worldviews, and fathering behaviors
This article by Dr. Janean Dilworth-Bart, co-authored by Dr. Bakari Wallace [PhD 2021, Civil Society & Community Research] and alumna Oona-Ifé Olaiya Wright [BS ’17, Human Development & Family Studies] addresses ways that Black men make …
Emerita Professor Bogenschneider wins award in Family Science
Karen Bogenschneider, Rothermel-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, was awarded the 2021 Wiley Prize in Family Science: The Alexis Walker Award. One of her recent papers was selected as the best family science paper published in …
Raison: Are there a connections between viruses and mental health?
“… a lot of people with mental health issues experience a general increased risk of poor health outcomes. But the pandemic started to shine a brighter light on why, bolstering a hypothesis that’s been accruing …
Kirkorian: Sesame Street adds first Asian and Pacific Islander character
Professor Heather Kirkorian discusses Ji-Young—a seven-year-old Korean American character in this interview with WPR. As part of Sesame Workshop’s “Coming Together” initiative—created to support families of all backgrounds through ongoing conversations about race—the special that …
Self-control in toddlers predictor of school-readiness & more
Dr. Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, Dorothy A. O’Brien Professor in Human Ecology, provides comment in MedicineNet article new study regarding how toddlers adjust to adult anger. “For example, self-control predicts school readiness, academic achievement and social competence, …
Low-SES students are expected to lag behind due to pandemic
Dr. Janean Dilworth Bart, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Phyllis Northway Faculty Fellow, and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, is co-author on a new article in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain …