Congratulations to CFF Funding Recipients

2021 Faculty Awards

Kontos Faculty Fellowship – Dr. Xiang Zhou, Assistant Professor in Counseling Psychology in the College of Education, Burmese refugee adolescents’ psychosocial development: A longitudinal follow-up study

Research Enhancement Grant – Dr. AJ Schwichtenberg, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, on behalf of Amy Janis, Sleep and Gross Motor Development within the Context of Elevated Autism Risk.

2021 Graduate Student Awards

Family Research Grant – Rachel Hahn Arkenberg, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, College of Health and Human Science, Family and child influences on complementary feeding and communication development.

Interdisciplinary Grant – Alyssa Obradovich, Brian Lamb School of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, Managing Privacy and Uncertainty in End-of-Life Communication

Justice Nutrition Grant – Elizabeth Kielb, Department of Health and Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Sciences, Parental Food Choice for their Preschool Aged Child: A Means-End Investigation

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research About Families

Dr. Zoe Taylor, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Sciences, Family support and mental health of Latinx children in migrant farmworker families

Taylor, Z. E., Ruiz, Y., Nair, N., & Mishra, A. A. (2020). Family support and mental health of Latinx children in migrant farmworker families. Applied Developmental Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2020.1800466

Normally celebrated in person as the annual Awards Breakfast, the Center for Families hosted a virtual Awards Ceremony in April 2021 to recognize the recipients from the 2020 and 2021 Funding Program.