Center for Families

CFF SPEAKER SERIES Open to all Purdue University faculty and staff, this March 28 panel will provide insights into the diverse caregiving challenges faced by faculty, post docs, and graduate students. Building on the National Academies’ 2024 report, Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM: A Call to Action, this in-person event will explore innovative strategies for fostering more inclusive academic environments.

CFF SPEAKER SERIES Open to all Purdue University faculty and staff, this March 28 panel will provide insights into the diverse caregiving challenges faced by faculty, post docs, and graduate students. Building on the National Academies’ 2024 report, Supporting Family...

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies to go remote with little warning, many firms are mandating that their employees return to the office (RTO) five days a week.

Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic forced companies to go remote with little warning, many firms are mandating that their employees return to the office (RTO) five days a week.

CFF SPEAKER SERIES On April 8, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne brings her research that draws on five different studies to conceptualize and operationalize “invisible family load”, and it provides a new, robust, and well-validated measure of that work.

CFF SPEAKER SERIES On April 8, Kanter Award Winner Dr. Julie Holliday Wayne brings her research that draws on five different studies to conceptualize and operationalize “invisible family load”, and it provides a new, robust, and well-validated measure of that...

Sharon Christ, Kristine Marceau, Trent Mize – When researchers require some statistical expertise or data analysis know-how, The Methodology Center at Purdue (MCAP) is there. A collaboration between the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), the center consists of four co-directors, 15 core faculty, and more than 100 affiliated faculty researchers.

When researchers require some statistical expertise or data analysis know-how, The Methodology Center at Purdue (MCAP) is there. A collaboration between the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), the center...

UPDATED – Purdue University men’s basketball center Will Berg, a hospitality and tourism management major in the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS), knows the importance of family meals. In a February 2024 feature in the Purdue Exponent, Berg opened up about his love of cooking that started with regular dinners with his father, Martin — a joy that he then shared with other Purdue men’s basketball players.  

Purdue University men’s basketball center Will Berg, a hospitality and tourism management major in the College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS), knows the importance of family meals. In a February 2024 feature in the Purdue Exponent, Berg opened up about his love of cooking that started...

Travis Dorsch, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies at USU, is passionate about the research he and his doctoral students, Kat Adams and Katie Alexander, have been conducting for a contract they were awarded from Lasso Safe, a nonprofit global coalition working towards the proactive assurance of athlete safety and wellness.

Travis Dorsch, associate professor in Human Development and Family Studies at USU, is passionate about the research he and his doctoral students, Kat Adams and Katie Alexander, have been conducting for a contract they were awarded from Lasso Safe, a...

Patti Thomas – This study adds to the literature on the relationship between social relationships and cognitive function by using social integration theory to examine whether a sense of community belonging at different ages is related to cognitive function in later life.

This study adds to the literature on the relationship between social relationships and cognitive function by using social integration theory to examine whether a sense of community belonging at different ages is related to cognitive function in later life.

Sharon Christ – Siblings of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often have weaker language skills compared to peers with typical development (TD). However, whether their language-relevant audiovisual skills are also atypical is unknown.

Siblings of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often have weaker language skills compared to peers with typical development (TD). However, whether their language-relevant audiovisual skills are also atypical is unknown.

Arielle Borovsky – Recent studies suggest that language users generate and maintain multiple predictions in parallel, especially in tasks that explicitly instruct participants to generate predictions. Here, we investigated the possibility of parallel gradedness of linguistic predictions in a simple reading task, using a new measure—imbalance—that captures the probabilistic difference between multiple sentence completions.

Recent studies suggest that language users generate and maintain multiple predictions in parallel, especially in tasks that explicitly instruct participants to generate predictions. Here, we investigated the possibility of parallel gradedness of linguistic predictions in a simple reading task, using...

2025 marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Family Dinner Project, and while we’re celebrating our anniversary, so is one of our community partners! The Purdue Center for Families spent the last year honoring their 30th anniversary with an in-depth, multi-faceted...