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Curriculum Specialist Anna Landes Benz reflects on the complexity of identifying as an introvert or an extrovert. She also offers tips for supporting children who are on the introverted end of the spectrum, whether at home or in the classroom.

The Institute of Child Development is delighted to share an update on the search for the new Director position at the Child Development Laboratory School (CDLS). Following an open search, the search committee has unanimously recommended Sheila Williams Ridge as the new Director of the CDLS. Sheila is an internationally-renowned leader with over 20 years […]

A paper led by ICD graduate student Lauren Eales was recently recognized as a top-cited article in the journal Child Development from 2021-2022. The paper “Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic” was a cross-lab collaboration between Dr. Gail Ferguson’s Culture and Family Life Lab and […]

Students specializing in child life through ICD’s online MA in applied child and adolescent development continue to see success as they pursue careers supporting children and families in healthcare and community settings. The child life track will admit its 6th cohort of students this summer. In 2019, we were one of the first programs in […]

ICD Assistant Professor Ka I Ip, PhD, has been awarded a $100,000 Root Causes and Interventions for Mental Health Problems grant, which is jointly supported by the University of Minnesota President’s Initiative on Student Mental Health (PRISMH) and the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB). Ip’s proposal “Developmental pathways linking disparities in neighborhood quality […]

Christopher Watson, PhD, and Deborah Ottman discuss the origin of the Reflective Interaction Observation Scale and how the new RIOS Guide for Reflective Supervision and Consultation in the Infant and Early Childhood Field was designed with practitioners' needs in mind.

ICD alum Kyra Ostendorf (MEd ’00) recently hosted a book launch event at Campbell Hall for Child Care Justice, which she edited with noted early childhood advocate Maurice Sykes. Ostendorf spoke about the process she and Sykes undertook to conceptualize and edit the book, which features chapters from contributors in the fields of early childhood […]

Megan Gunnar, PhD, Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Institute of Child Development, recently testified to a joint Minnesota Senate hearing on early childhood issues. State Senator Melissa Wiklund, who chairs the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, convened a joint hearing on Feb. 2 with the Senate Education Finance Committee on […]

A paper from ICD’s newest assistant professor Ka I Ip, PhD, was recently recognized as a finalist for the Yale School of Medicine’s Office of Health Equity Research award for Yale Research Excellence in 2022. The paper “Associations among Household and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantages, Resting-state Frontoamygdala Connectivity, and Internalizing Symptoms in Youth” published in the […]

A recent ICD PhD alumni and a doctoral candidate are recipients of the prominent Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation award from the Society for Research in Child Development, which will be presented at the upcoming 2023 biennial awards ceremony in March. Pearl Han Li, who graduated with her PhD in 2022, and Alyssa R. Palmer, a PhD […]