Category: Faculty

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.

Leanne Nieforth – Riding or being around horses is one form of therapeutic recreation. For safety, helmets are required by most practitioners, if not strongly encouraged. Yet, current helmet designs for equine activities remain largely inaccessible and noninclusive, raising significant safety concerns within equine-assisted services (EASs).

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.

Arielle Borovsky, professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, will serve a three-year term as president of the Cognitive Science Society executive committee, effective Aug. 1. The mission of the society is to promote cognitive science as a discipline and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and education.

Leigha MacNeill – To advance clinical utility of an emerging risk calculator for identifying when to worry and when to act when young children show signs of mental health concerns in pediatric care, we: (1) replicate an early childhood mental health risk algorithm (DECIDE); (2) determine preliminary predictive utility of additional child and parenting assets, advancing a strengths-based framework to reduce the likelihood of biased identification.

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Research on the relationship between age and the work–family interface (WFI) is critical to effective human resource management. Yet, findings remain inconsistent and lack theoretical integration.

Heather Eicher-Miller – Food insecurity occurs when household members experience a change in their diet or decrease in food amount due to limited resources. Compared with all households, food insecurity is more prevalent among those with children, affecting 18 percent in 2023. In approximately half of those, the children did not directly experience food insecurity, indicating that coping strategies may help prevent this situation by limiting changes to quality and quantity of diet.

Cordelia Running; Kameron Moding – The dual-identity of being Latino/Hispanic and living in a rural area may exacerbate the acquisition of diet-attributed chronic disease. Nutrition education serves as an important resource for teaching individuals about healthy eating patterns, but it is unknown how relevant current programming is to this specific population.