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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, […]

Tai Mendenhall, medical family therapist and associate professor in the Department of Family Social Science, has been honored with the Excellence in Professional/Clinical Practice Award from the Families and Health Section of the National Council on Family Relations. The award announcement stated,  “it is important to note that you stood out among other very strong […]

A Family Social Science research team examined the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on refugee and immigrant families in Minnesota. Collaborating with 19 community-based health and human services organizations, the team’s findings illustrate the depth of challenges faced by these often under-resourced populations. Their study was supported by an FSOS COVID-19 mini-grant program. […]

Elder family financial exploitation (EFFE) is a one of the most prevalent types of elder abuse affecting approximately 1 in 15 older adults and their families.   Would you recognize exploitation if you saw  it in your own family?  Do you know what action to take now to help prevent EFFE in your family?  To learn […]

Joyce Serido, associate professor and extension specialist in Family Social Science, has been awarded a Mary T. O’Neill mini-grant from the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE). She and her Extension colleague, Sharon Powell, will develop a financial toolkit to engage underserved youth in a process of financial self-discovery to raise awareness about […]

As the majority of U.S. colleges and universities transitioned to remote learning during March 2020 and subsequently spent the summer planning for an uncertain fall semester, a research team in Family Social Science began planning how they could examine what parents of college students were experiencing as they coped with these decisions and transitions. Jodi […]

Family Social Science PhD alumna Emily Jordan Jensen steps into her dream job this fall as a resident faculty member in the College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS) at the U of M.  She joins a team of five resident faculty members in CCAPS’ Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Integrated Behavioral Health program […]

Armeda Stevenson Wojciak will join the University of Minnesota in August to lead the nationally accredited Couple and Family Therapy program – a doctoral degree in the Department of Family Social Science.     She previously served as an associate professor and program director of the Couple and Family Therapy program at the University of […]

Chalandra Bryant, the Family Social Science 2019-2020 Ambiguous Loss Scholar, will join the Department’s faculty this fall as the first Pauline Boss Faculty Fellow in Ambiguous Loss. Dr. Bryant comes to Minnesota from the University of Georgia (UGA) where she was a professor of Human Development and Family Science and taught courses in family development, […]

Stacey Horn has been named Head of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Social Science and will join the Department August 17. The U of M alumna returns to Minnesota from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was chair of the Department of Educational Psychology, a professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology, […]