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.

Sooyeon Jeong – CFF Faculty Partner studies nonverbal communication to teach robots how to offer support

Sooyeon Jeong and Mark Suchman, were announced as part of the spring lineup for Purdue University’s Westwood Lecture Series, which provides an opportunity for university faculty to interact with colleagues on scholarly work from a wide range of fields.

Sharon Christ, Arielle Borovsky – Children recognize semantic relations between words early in development, yet it is unclear how this ability is affected by children’s vocabulary size.

David Purpura – This study investigated the synergistic relationships between teacher burnout and parent burnout on preschoolers’ social-emotional competence (SEC) and behavioral self-regulation (BSR). We hypothesized that higher teacher burnout would be associated with lower social skills and BSR and higher problem behaviors in the spring.

Annabelle Atkin – The present study validates a brief version of the Multiracial Youth Socialization Scale, the MY-Soc-B, which assesses Multiracial youths’ experiences of receiving messages from their caregivers about race and culture.

Christie Sennott – Emerging adulthood is characterized by heightened risks to unwanted sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes, particularly for young women. In the U.S., school-based sexual education programs often prioritize abstinence, leaving youth without comprehensive information on avoiding pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

A.J. Schwichtenberg – Sleep problem treatments are commonly used by families raising children with developmental disabilities (DD). However, intervention targets often build exclusively on parent reports which can include inherent biases or missing information.

Elizabeth Hoffmann – Membership in worker co-operatives often demands more work and dedication than standard jobs. Committee work, co-governance, membership meetings, and “pitching in” to help other members with their work are all demands on co-op members’ time and effort that conventional jobs do not make.

Zoe Taylor – Increased sleep duration, along with earlier bedtimes, seem to promote health by decreasing overweight risk in Midwestern Latine youth. Earlier bedtimes are associated with lowering the risk for being overweight, even when controlling for sleep duration.