Category: Faculty

Learn how small changes in leadership and workplace culture can make a big difference in well-being, performance, and family engagement at this year’s Kanter Lecture, March 6 at 3 p.m. Kanter Award Finalist, Ellen Ernst Kossek will highlight how training supervisors to be more supportive can help employees feel less burned out and more engaged.

Review the slides: At the second CFF Fellowship Lecture, Libby Richards explored the role family dynamics play in disease management.

Oliver Wendt, CFF Kontos Faculty Scholar, has been elected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) — one of the highest honors awarded by the association. The distinction recognizes Oliver’s significant contributions to the field of communication sciences and disorders through research, teaching, and professional leadership.

Annabelle Atkin – A common racial stressor for Multiracial people is racial identity invalidation: the experience of having one’s racial identity denied by others. This preregistered, exploratory study investigated Biracial people’s experiences of identity invalidation within a family setting.

Sooyeon Jeong – As social robots get more deeply integrated intoour everyday lives, they will be expected to engage in meaningful conversations and exhibit socio-emotionally intelligent listening behaviors when interacting with people. Active listening and backchanneling could be one way to enhance robots’ communicative capabilities and enhance their effectiveness in eliciting deeper self-disclosure, providing a sense of empathy,and forming positive rapport and relationships

Jorge Banda – Can a customized computer-driven 12-month short message service (SMS) counseling platform increase weekly walking minutes among adults to levels comparable with those receiving telephone counseling from a trained human advisor?

Laura Schwab Reese – Every year in the United States, it’s estimated that more than 1 in 7 children face violence or neglect in their home. These experiences often go unreported. Some children don’t recognize their experiences as abuse. Others are ashamed. Many fear what will happen next if they speak out.

Trent Mize – Sociological social psychology and the study of human sexuality have largely developed as distinct fields of study. Yet, they share considerable overlap in topics of inquiry, such as identity and status processes; stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; and stress processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels, respectively.

Kimberly Updegraff – Sibling relationships are often a person’s longest—preceding most friendships and romantic relationships—so the magnitude of sibling influence can’t be ignored

Breanya Hogue – This collaborative self-study examines bi-directional mentoring interactions between two faculty, a graduate teaching assistant, and a preservice teacher within a literacy methods course to examine the impact on shaping teacher identity and mentoring roles.