Multiple MU HDFS Doctoral students and faculty members were honored for their research at the recent National Council on Family Relations annual conference held in November. Congratulations to our students and faculty for making contributions to the field that have real-world implications for improving the lives of individuals and families!
Outstanding Publication of the Year Award, NCFR Families and Health Section
Associate Professor, Dr. Antoinette Landor and her colleague from the University of Illinois won this award for the best health-related publication in the prior year for their paper, Skin-tone trauma: Historical and contemporary influences on the health and interpersonal outcomes of African Americans, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science in September 2019.
Antoinette Landor
Issues in Aging Focus Group Award
MU HDFS Doctoral student Steffany Sloan and Assistant Professor Dr. Kale Monk collaborated with a number of colleagues from universities across the nation to present the symposium Still here, still queer: Qualitative research on LGBTQ aging
Steffany Sloan
Best Student Paper, NCFR Family Therapy Section
Doctoral students Emily Charvat and Alaysia Brown, and Assistant Professor, Dr. Chelsea Garneau-Rosner collaborated on the paper, Stress and couple relationship satisfaction: Fondness as an adaptive process?
Emily Charvat
Alaysia Brown
Best Student/New Professional Proposal, NCFR Education and Enrichment Section
Doctoral student Emily Charvat and Braquel Egginton, and Assistant Professor, Dr. Chelsea Garneau-Rosner collaborated on the paper, Improvements in relationship satisfaction and coparenting quality following relationship education: Examining the spillover hypothesis among stepcouples and non-stepcouples.
Emily Charvat
Braquel Egginton