HDFS NEWS ARCHIVES

SPRING 2009

• Julie Poehlmann on the Resilience of Young Children:  Human Development and Family Studies Professor Julie Poehlmann was quoted in an Appleton /Post-Crescent/ article “Brain to Five Speaker Identifies Early Childhood Risks,” on Apr. 19 -- .http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20090419/APC0101/904190518/1003/APC01,
  

• HDFS Graduate Students in Action:   "Meet Your Match" Raises over $2000 for Domestic Abuse Intervention Services* A small group of SoHE graduate students and community members helped create a new fundraiser for Domestic Abuse Intervention Services. Meet Your Match, a speed-dating fundraiser, was held on April 2nd at the Brink Lounge. Leigh Mills from NBC15 hosted the event, and 67 participants arrived to find love and friendship in a fast-paced, enjoyable setting. Congratulations to Amanda Hane, Olivia May-Little, Jessica Collura, Jennifer Skolaski, and Jonathan Horowitz for forming one-half of the planning team and successfully raising over $2000 for DAIS!

• Human Development and Family Studies Professor Karen Bogenschneider’s "Family Impact Seminar" is one of 14 campus-wide projects selected for funding by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Nearly 100 applicants competed for a Baldwin grant in the 7th annual competition, and Bogenschneider's is the first Human Ecology project to gain this funding. The Baldwin Endowment aims to directly advance the Wisconsin Idea through campus collaborations with communities and outside organizations.

• Human Development and Family Studies Professor Lauren Papp’s article "Demand-Withdraw Patterns in Marital Conflict in the Home," has been accepted for publication in the June issue of Personal Relationships. Professor Papp’s study used spouses' reports of marital conflict in the home to examine the demand-withdraw communication pattern, which occurs when one spouse wants to talk about an issue, even after the other spouse has tried to end the discussion.

• Human Development and Family Studies chair and professor, Linda Roberts, with Meg Wise and colleagues at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) has received a two-year award from the National Cancer Institute to study the effects of life review and online social networking for midlife advanced cancer patients. Using a randomized group design, the investigators will learn about the effects of an online narrative intervention they have developed called "My Living Story."

• Linda Roberts, professor and chair, Human Development and Family Studies, is quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal of Jan. 21, responding to an “I Wonder Why” query: “Are People Attracted to People Who Look Like Them?”

• The Graduate Student Organization (GSO) has received a grant from University Health Services to collaborate with the Applied Linguistics Student Association. This collaboration is hosting a series of Intellectual Exchanges to offer graduate students, as well as interested undergrads, the opportunity to present their own research in an informal atmosphere before a supportive audience.

• Professor Roberts has been awarded the highest honor a tenured faculty member can receive from the School of Human Ecology, a Bascom Professorship, based on her accomplishments in research, teaching and outreach.  The Audrey Rothermel Bascom Professorship in Human Ecology was established by an endowment to the University of Wisconsin Foundation by the Rothermel family. Professor Roberts will retain the named professorship forever and receive an annual stipend for the five year award period. 

FALL 2008

• Dr. David Riley, Rothermel Bascom Professor in Human Ecology, is the subject of a new Wisconsin Idea profile and Wisconsin Week article. The article discusses the global success of his parenting newsletters, delivered to thousands of new parents annually.

• Dr. Karen Bogenschneider (HDFS) will be honored with the 2008 Board on Human Sciences Engagement Award at the November meeting of the National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) in Chicago.  This award recognizes exceptional creativity and scholarship in the development, application and evaluation of outreach, extension, and public service programs.  NASULGC is the nation's oldest higher education association, dedicated to supporting excellence in teaching, research, and public service.  Congratulations!

• Students promote preschool language, literacy skills in new Jumpstart event.  Jumpstart, the UW-Madison program that pairs university students with preschool children to build school readiness skills, is sponsoring several "Read for the Record" events on Thursday, Oct. 2. (read more)

• Service-Learning program gives children a "jump start" into school.  The School of Human Ecology has launched a new outreach and service-learning program aimed at helping economically disadvantaged preschoolers get a "jump start" on kindergarten, while giving college students experience in the classroom.  (read more)

• Professor Dave Riley was quoted in a Sept. 13 /Wisconsin State Journal/ article, "Staying Home with the Kids." He discussed how parents cope in the current economy by experimenting with split care giving shifts, family budget cuts and part-time care.  (read more)

• HDFS graduate student Amy Jo (AJ) Miller Schwichtenberg recently completed a three-year pre doctoral fellowship from NICHD.  her funding supported a longitudinal study that investigates early sleep development and its relation to infant-mother interaction and neonatal medical risks in infants born preterm or low birth weight (PT LBW). It is an extension of Dr. Poehlmann's NIH-funded R01.  AJ has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the M.I.N.D. Institute at UC--Davis to study sleep development and emerging self-regulation in children with developmental disabilities, including autism.  (read more p. 8)

• Sun Woo Kang, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies was honored on Sept. 16, at the UW-Madison Institute on Aging's annual colloquium at the Monona Terrace Convention Center with this year's New Investigator Award in the Behavioral and Social Sciences area.

• Human Development and Family Studies graduate student Amy Hilgendorf has received a 2008 technology-enhanced collaborative group work award from DoIT. Hilgendorf will use her grant to enhance the teaching of HDFS 425, Research Methods in HDFS.

• Beginning in 2009, Human Development and Family Studies Professor Lauren Papp will be serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Psychology, a premier publication of the American Psychological Association, as a consulting editor. The position entails reviewing approximately six to eight manuscripts annually.

• Graduate student Amy Hilgendorf was quoted recently in a UW Communications article on the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Community Internship Program, which enables graduate and undergraduate students to serve as agents of social change. Hilgendorf was part of a group that researched the effectiveness of programs serving the Kennedy Heights Community Center.

SPRING 2008

• Siobhan Cooney was selected as one of two students to be awarded a $1,000 "Student Research Grant" from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Her dissertation work is titled "The Impact of Emergency Contraception Accessibility on Willingness to Engage in Unprotected Intercourse Among Adolescent and Emerging Adult Women." Her research is supervised by Professor Stephen Small. The research draws on theoretical and developmental perspectives to help explain young women's decisions to take contraceptive risks. The data is being collected at Planned Parenthood sites across Wisconsin. Research applications include informing health care policy and practice and advancing theory in the behavioral health field.

• Students enhance undergraduate experience with research.  On Thursday, April 12, from 9:45 a.m.-4 p.m., more than 200 undergraduate researchers from disciplines across campus will present their “ideas that matter” to the community at the ninth annual Undergraduate Symposium.  (read more)

• The Student Personnel Association (SPA) honored seven UW-Madison staff members with Outstanding Achievement Awards, including our Department Administrator, Jane Weier, who received the Frontline Award (read more).

• Human Development and Family Studies Professor Karen Bogenschneider has received the 2008 Spitze Land Grant Faculty Excellence Award! This award is open to faculty of the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the School of Human Ecology.

• The award includes $5,000 for the Family Impact Seminars. Although Ms. Spitze worked long ago as a home economist, Professor Bogenschneider is the first faculty member from the School to win the award. In fact, Professor Bogenschneider began her career as the Extension Home Economist in Iowa County. Her nomination included letters of support from the Assistant Vice-Chancellor Peyton Smith, former Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty Tom Corbett, and Human Ecology Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension Dave Riley.

• Lynet Uttal, professor of Human Development and Family Studies, has been named director of the Asian American Studies program. The interdisciplinary program focuses on the teaching, research and cultural activities of persons of Asian ancestry. It serves as a teaching and resource center not only for Asian Americans but for the University community as a whole.

• Congratulations to Lauren Papp, professor in Human Development and Family Studies! She has received a two-year $147,000 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The title of her study is “Interparental Relationships, Parental Psychological Distress, and Child Development.”

DECEMBER 2007

• Human Development and Family Studies graduate student Linda Park recently received a Vilas Travel Fellowship from the Graduate Student Collaborative (GSC). Each year, the GSC awards grants to UW-Madison Dissertators and final year MFA students for domestic or international travel to conferences or for research purposes to eligible students. Park plans on using her grant to travel to cities on both coasts to interview Korean Americans. Her research agenda includes the use of qualitative interviews to tease apart the development of ethnic identity for this population. Park’s advisor is Professor Lynet Uttal.

NOVEMBER 2007

• Dave Riley, Human Ecology Associate Dean for Outreach and Rothermel-Bascom Professor of Human Development, is the lead author of Social and Emotional Development: Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood Settings, recently published by Redleaf Press (www.redleafpress.org). The second of the four co-authors is Robert San Juan (MS ’01, PhD ’06, Human Ecology) site manager of the UW-Madison Jumpstart program. Housed at the School, Jumpstart brings together college students and economically disadvantage preschoolers to build literacy and social and emotional readiness to learn.

NOVEMBER 2006

• Plaiticas help Latino immigrants discover keys to U.S. culture, and maintain their own.  UW-Madison professor Lynet Uttal (seated at end left) and community co-director Leticia Frausto (seated at right) listen to a group of more than 30 Latino immigrants discuss potential feelings of isolation, and how the feeling can affect their parenting and efforts to biculturally raise their children, during a workshop held at St. Joseph's Church in Madison on Nov. 18. (read more)

MAY 2005

• Julie Poehlmann's study depicts peril, hope for children of jailed mothers.  A new study, the first empirical examination of the attachment relationships of young children whose mothers are in prison, suggest that simple interventions may prevent a downward social spiral for a rapidly growing and vulnerable population. (read more)

SEPTEMBER 2005

• Exploring the "social ecology of productive classrooms".  Jeffrey Lewis' work is targeting solutions for the "scandalous" level of academic failure and dropout rates among African-American boys in the U.S. (read more)