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Jerica Berge is a PhD alumna (2004) of the Department of Family Social Science. Among her many accolades is now the 2022 Carole J. Bland Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where Dr. Berge is on faculty in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Scott Fremont, Med […]

Xiaoran Sun, assistant professor in Family Social Science, has been awarded University of Minnesota Grants-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship. Dr. Sun was awarded $34,400 grant for the project, “Examining Teenagers’ Overnight Smartphone Use and Its Implications for Well-Being with High-Intensity Smartphone Data.” Dr. Sun’s project will use a recent dataset that includes objective, high-intensity […]

Samantha LeBouef, a first-generation college student who is currently a graduate student in the CEHD Department of Family Social Science, is the winner of two prestigious scholar awards. LeBouef was selected out of 195 doctoral candidates from across the University who were nominated to receive a 2022-23 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF).  In addition, she is one […]

Doctoral candidates completing their degrees in Family Social Science will join the faculties of the University of Rochester, NY, and Ohio University this fall. Sloan Okrey Anderson, who will be defending their dissertation this spring, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Rochester, New York. Okrey Anderson will be a member […]

Claire Busse, a senior majoring in Family Social Science and Sociology, and a UMN Honors student, made the leap from learner to practitioner to researcher earlier this academic year for her FSOS honors thesis. She developed a trauma-informed leadership training that incorporated her knowledge about trauma and how it impacts people’s minds and bodies for […]

The Department of Family Social Science was well represented at the National Conference on Family Relations (NCFR), Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA) virtual conference and at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference this month. Graduate students, faculty and alumni displayed the breadth of their research that addresses critical needs and issues […]

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and its Research & Education Foundation annually honors individuals for their contributions to MFT research and practice. This year Jessica Simpson, PhD student, and Pauline Boss and David Olson, professors emeriti, all in Family Social Science, were honored. Jessica Simpson has been recognized with the Master’s Thesis […]

Stacey Horn, Family Social Science Department Head, announced that Xiaoran Sun will join the department as an assistant professor, December 30, 2021. She will be taking advisees in the department’s doctoral programs for fall 2022. Sun received both master’s and doctoral degrees in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University and her bachelor […]

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) awarded the 2021 Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition to Jeremy Pagel, a member of the Lakeshore Technical College faculty, Cleveland, WI. Lakeshore is one of Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges. A 2000 graduate of the Family Social Science Bachelor of Science program and a 2001 graduate of the […]

Christina Norris graduated in May 2021 with a bachelor’s in Family Social Science and already has set her sights on a double masters degree. But her path has been anything but conventional. The first-gen college student never stopped striving for a college degree despite health and family setbacks and life’s career detours.    Although she […]