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 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.

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.

Jeremy Reynolds – Electrification, especially when paired with low-carbon electricity resources, is one pathway for reducing emissions from the industrial sector, but it will also require changes to manufacturing processes and jobs of workers in the industry. To learn more about what job attributes workers value most and thus are most important to preserve in a just electrification transition, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews followed by a short survey with workers employed in the steel industry.

Zoe Taylor – Latina immigrant mothers living in emerging immigrant destinations often face geographic isolation, discrimination, and socioeconomic stress that adversely affect parenting and mental health.

Maria Marshall, the James and Lois Ackerman Professor in Agricultural Economics, received the Frederick L. Hovde Award of Excellence in Educational Service to Rural People of Indiana by Purdue University College of Agriculture. This award is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to providing educational services to rural communities across Indiana.