Category: CFF

March 7, 2023

Women’s History Month: Susan Kontos, founding director of Purdue’s Center for Families

Susan Kontos joined the Purdue University faculty in 1985 in what is now the Department of Human Development and Family Science. Kontos was an international authority as a top-notch researcher who investigated young children’s development through the lens of their...

January 2, 2023

Center for Families announces new leadership

Valerie Knopik, head of the Department of Human Development and Family Science, has announced the appointment of Melissa Franks as the Director of the Center for Families, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Robert Duncan will continue as Associate Director for Policy....

September 26, 2022

Purdue Center for Families shapes policy, discovery to improve family outcomes

“The idea of family and the work that families do becomes more and more important,” said Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, professor of human development and family studies and director of the Center for Families. “If families are not able to do...