Mun Choi, president of the University of Missouri, Latha Ramchand, MU provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Steve Sowers, president and CEO of the central region of Commerce Bank, today awarded a 2021 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence to Antoinette M. Landor, an associate professor in the College of Human…

Melissa Herzog’s peers rewarded her online teaching methods with a 2021 Faculty Excellence Award from Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance. Herzog teaches in the youth development graduate degree program offered together online by seven universities. She is part of the online program as an assistant teaching professor and graduate advisor for youth development at…

A Major Mentor Students reflect on the importance of discovering a mentor who looks like them at Mizzou. Story by Sara Diedrich, 573-8823243, diedrichs@missouri.edu Antoinette Landor believes that mentoring in college has the power to change a student’s world view and life trajectory. It happened to her. “It showed me a world I wouldn’t have…

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,…

ShowMe Healthy Relationships (SMHR) is a partnership between the University of Missouri Extension, University of Missouri Department of Human Development and Family Science, and three Community Family Agencies who have come together to help singles and couples have happy and healthy relationships. The program has provided training in healthy relationship skills to 1,127 adult couples…

Congratulations to Dr. Antoinette Landor, HDFS Associate Professor and Millsap Professorship of Diversity and Multicultural Studies, on being selected as a recipient of the 2020 Provost Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award. The purpose of this award is to give special recognition to junior faculty, who are in the early phases of their…

Congratulations to Dr. Antoinette Landor, HDFS Associate Professor and Millsap Professorship of Diversity and Multicultural Studies, on winning the APLU 2020 Board on Human Sciences Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. The award recognizes a faculty member in the human sciences for exceptional performance as a research mentor to undergraduate students. We are so very proud of…

Dr. Antoinette M. Landor Named the Millsap Missouri Professorship in Human Development and Family Studies with a focus on Diversity and Multicultural Studies Antoinette M. Landor, will serve as the Millsap Professorship of Diversity and Multicultural Studies in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, for the 2020-2021 academic year. Dr. Landor has a…

Congratulations to Dr. Antoinette Landor, HDFS Assistant Professor and Co-Founder/Associate Director of the Center for Body Image Research and Policy (CBIRP), on receiving the UM System President's Award for Early Career Excellence. Since joining Mizzou in 2014, Dr. Landor has pushed researchers, academics and the public to think in new and more complex ways about…

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Antoinette Landor, HDFS Assistant Professor and Co-Founder/Associate Director of the Center for Body Image Research and Policy (CBIRP), on being selected as one of two Undergraduate Research Mentors of the Year. This award is especially meaningful given that Dr. Landor was nominated by students. Our students know the real…

>Congratulations are in order for Dr. Antoinette Landor, Assistant Professor at HDFS, and Dr. Ginny Ramseyer Winter, Assistant Professor for the MU School of Social Work, on receiving two RAPID Grants Related to COVID 19 from the College of Human Environmental Sciences: 2020-2021 - RAPID Grant Related to COVID-19, University of Missouri College of Human…

p>Dr. Tashel Bordere, Assistant Professor at HDFS, was part of an interdisciplinary panel (clinician, hospice, academia, mortician, chaplain) discussion and interview sponsored by the Association for Death Education and Counseling on "Grief, Bereavement and Death at a Distance." The panel was a timely discussion that provided an inside look around coping with death losses but…

Dr. Sarah Killoren, Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science, was interviewed by NBC News for her research on sisterhood. The article is entitled What "Little Women" can teach us about the power of sisterhood. The article discusses how the classic story highlights the complex and intimate relationship between sisters —…