Category: Awards

October 20, 2025

Now Accepting Applications: 2026 Center for Families Funding Program

Each year, the Center for Families’ offers funding opportunities that encourage collaborative, multi-disciplinary work focused on families across the life course. With an emphasis on real-world impact, this program helps faculty and students generate knowledge that supports and strengthens families...

October 19, 2025

MFRI announces The Thompson – An evolution and expansion the annual research award

The Thompson is a national initiative that recognizes and amplifies the most impactful research on military and veteran families. It is a dynamic platform designed to elevate outstanding research and ensure that evidence-based insights reach practitioners working with military and veteran families. An evolution and expansion of MFRI’s annual research award, The Thompson brings together several key initiatives under one name.

June 6, 2025

Congratulations 2025 Kanter Award Winner!

Wen-Dong Li , Jiexin Wang , Tammy Allen, Xin Zhang, Kaili Yu, Hong Zhang, Jason L. Huang, Mengqiao Liu, and Andrew Li are the winning authors for their article Getting under the skin? Influences of work–family experiences on personality trait adaptation and reciprocal relationships.

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!

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.