Thrilled to share our team's new manuscript supporting the design of accessible and culturally relevant interventions using a novel "blueprint storyboarding" method! Check it out here! 👇👇 doi.org/10.1007/s11121… Culture and Family Life Lab SPR

CALL FOR PAPERS: TWO WEEKS TO ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. Special issue of Journal of Research on Adolescence. Creative empirical & review papers welcome. Abstracts due Mar 1 full papers Aug 15 s-r-a.org/journal-for-re… #adolesence #interdiscplinaryresearch #JRA

In a recent pilot study, we found JUS Media? Global Classroom, a digital, culturally adapted, food focused, media literacy intervention, to be acceptable, feasible, and effective. Learn more below!

A paper out of our lab led by grad student Lauren Eales (with contributions from Sarah Gillespie, Reece Alstat, our PI Dr. Gail Ferguson, and Dr. Stephanie Carlson) was a top-cited article in Child Development from 2021-2022! 🥳🥳

Congrats to Lauren Eales on chairing a great symposium on media use during COVID-19 Society for Research in Child Development! UMN Institute of Child Development

Congratulations to Sarah Gillespie from the Project UNITE team and CFL Lab! 🎉🎉🎉

We are thrilled that two of our excellent undergraduate research assistants, Elizabeth Fajemirokun and Maggy Deschane, have been selected to participate in the Research Institute for Scholars of Equity (RISE) program! nccu.edu/soe/rise 🥳👏

Research from ICD grad student Lauren Eales on youth and family functioning across the COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact! Her paper on youth media use during the pandemic was a 2021-22 top-cited article in the journal Child Development. Read more: z.umn.edu/8ioa

Are you attending #SRA2023 this weekend? Stop by lab member presentations on Saturday (and Dr. Ferguson will be at the Meet the Scientist Luncheon on Friday!) Tori Simenec Sarah Gillespie Lauren Eales

Our team was ready and excited for #SRA2023 today!

Lauren Eales sharing her fascinating research on racial socialization via media among White families in the US #SRA2023 Society for Research on Adolescence

An excellent symposium chaired by Tori Simenec on school-based interventions graced #SRA2023 today!! Congrats to this great team with work by Sarah Gillespie and Dr. Armando Pina

Our amazing undergrads are presenting at the University of Minnesota undergraduate research symposium right now! Here they are with mentors Dr. Ferguson and Sarah Gillespie Lauren Eales UMN Institute of Child Development

We are thrilled to work with Drs. Melissa Koenig and Charisse B Pickron on an antiracist parenting intervention starting this year 🎉! news.cehd.umn.edu/icds-ferguson-…

🎉 Exciting news! Cheers to a fabulous collaboration w/ @JoseCausadias Tori Simenec on this integrative review paper that we hope will be useful in both research and teaching.