Category: Awards

April 25, 2025

Center for Families announces 2025 Funding Recipients

Center for Families announces the 2025 Funding Recipients – Congratulations faculty and students focused on research about families!

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families Zoe Taylor, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences Structural Risks and Family Adjustment in Midwestern Latine Immigrant Families: Extending the Family Stress...

January 14, 2025

Nominations sought for Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families

The Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families recognizes outstanding family research being conducted by Purdue Faculty.

January 12, 2025

Thinking Outside The Building: Four Challenges to Bridging the Work Family Divide, WFRN Big Ideas Podcast with Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Celebrating the Kanter Award's 25th Anniversary, CFF brought Rosabeth Moss Kanter to the 2024 Work and Family Researchers Network conference, June 19-22, Montreal, Canada.

December 11, 2024

MFRI Announces Winner of Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award

MFRI named a groundbreaking study on the connections between childhood trauma, stressors and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in military couples as the winner of the 2024 Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award.

October 1, 2024

Two CFF Faculty Partners to receive American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors

Libby Richards, Vicki Simpson

Purdue announced that two CFF Faculty Partners, Libby Richards and Vicki Simpson, were selected to become American Academy of Nursing Fellow Honors.

June 25, 2024

Kanter winners announced at WFRN Conference!

The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, celebrating the award's 25th anniversary! Vanessa...

June 25, 2024

CFF Director Emerita recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth was recognized by the Work and Family Researchers Network for her enduring contributions to the work-family community.

May 28, 2024

Robert Duncan receives the Family Tree Award

This year, Rob Duncan received the Family Tree Award. This award is given as a way to show gratitude for a person's instrumental role in joining families and communities together, through their support, advocacy, education, influence, and inspiration.

May 28, 2024

2024 Kanter Award Nominees and Finalists announced

The Center for Families and Center for Work and Family at Boston College announced this year's Kanter Award nominated articles, with six in the running for the top honor, to be announced June 20th at the WFRN conference.

May 7, 2024

Center for Families announces 2024 Funding Recipients

NEW PHOTOS! Center for Families announces the 2024 Funding Recipients – Congratulations faculty and students focused on research about families!

Lorene Burkhart Award for Excellence in Research about Families Sarah Eason, PhD, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, College of Health and Human Sciences Family Math Engagement in Rural Families Eason, S. H., Leech, K. A., Anderson, K....