Family Social Science News
Former FSoS Professor Gerry Neubeck featured in NCFR Report
Gerhard (Gerry) Neubeck was a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota, and became NCFR's 35th president in 1977. Until 1940, Nuebeck lived in Germany, where he was a German-Jewish athlete. In the run-up to the 1936...
FSoS Juyoung Jang and Sharon Danes publish in ERJ
Department of Family Social Science doctoral candidate Juyoung Jang and professor Sharon Danes have a paper accepted by the Entrepreneurship Research Journal: "Are we on the same page?: Copreneurial Couple goal congruence and business viability."...
FSoS Abi Gewirtz and Yaliu He present a workshop in Beijing
Department of Family Social Science professor Abi Gewirtz and graduate student Yaliu He are conducting a workshop at the Beijing Tsinghua University's Department of Psychology June 5-11. Professor Gewirtz will present her expertise in trauma and prevention science....
FSoS Charles Sim and Yunxi Yang to present in China
Department of Family Social Science graduate students Charles Sim and Yunxi Yang will present at the Intensive Summer Clinical Workshop in Couple and Family Therapy at China's Xiamen University, June 28-30, 2013....
FSoS Jennifer Sampson and Janet Yeats present posters and workshops at ICHC
Department of Family Social Science graduate students and founders of The Hoarding Project Jennifer Sampson and Janet Yeats presented at the 15th Annual International Conference on Hoarding and Cluttering in San Francisco May 2. They presented two posters, "Firearms and...
FSoS Kyle Zrenchik presents a poster and two presentations at two conferences with Ruth Hall Funding Award
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kyle Zrenchik has received Ruth E. Hall Funds for Graduate Student Professional Development. Kyle used part of the funds to present "The State of LGBT Family Research: An Opportunity to Critically Reflect" at...
FSoS's Diego Garcia-Huidobro to present in San Francisco and Prague, Czech Republic
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Diego Garcia-Huidobro will present two posters at the Society for Prevention Research 21st Annual Conference in San Francisco, May 28-31. The posters are titled "Participants' Satisfaction with an Immigrant Family-Skills Building Program to...
FSoS Charles Sim to present at symposium in Myanmar
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Charles Sim will present at the Family Life Symposium for Bishops and Laity Collaborators of Southeast Asia 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar, May 23-26. His topic is "Spirituality and Psychology of Growing Old."...
FSoS Kari Smalkoski awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kari Smalkoski, Ph.D. candidate in Family Science, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School for 2013-2014. The prestigious fellowship is intended to enable Ph.D. candidates of particular promise to devote full-time effort to the research and...
FSoS Cigdem Yumbul presented in Spain
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Cigdem Yumbul presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013 in Madrid, Spain, April 26-28. The title of her presentation was "An integrative Conceptual Framework for Understanding Child Abuse within the...
FSoS Holli Trombley receives Ruth Hall Funds for India trip
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Holli Trombley has received Ruth E. Hall Funding for Graduate Student Professional Development to participate in the Tibetan Medicine, Ayurveda, and Mindfulness workshop in Dharamsala, India, May-June 2013. During the workshop she will...
FSoS Kyle Zrenchik awarded Hauge Fellowship
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Kyle Zrenchik has been selected as a Hauge Graduate Fellowship recipient in the amount of $11,500 for the 2013-13 academic year. Congratulations Kyle!...
FSoS Jane Newell develops series for Student Parent HELP Center
Department of Family Social Science graduate student Jane Newell gave a presentation in February to student-parents at the Student Parent HELP Center, Office for Student Affairs. After giving this presentation she was asked by Susan Warfield, Program Director for the...
FSoS Diego Garcia-Huidobro & Kayla Anderson receive COGS Travel Awards
Department of Family Social Science graduate students Diego Garcia-Huidobro and Kayla Anderson have both been chosen by the Council of Graduate Students as recipients of their travel award. Diego will use his award to give two presentations at the 20th...
FSoS Grads Cidgem Yumbul & Phoa Xiong receive WPLC awards
Congratulations department of Family Social Science Ph.D. student Cidgem Yumbul and M.A. student Phoa Xiong (pictured) for receiving awards from the Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle. The students were selected from a highly competitive group of female graduate students based on...