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The Minnesota Office of Higher Education recently awarded a $580,000 grant to the Department of Family Social Science (FSOS), the Institute of Child Development (ICD), and the Educational Psychology Department's Special Education program.

Reflection Sciences, a company founded by the Institute of Child Development's Dr. Stephanie Carlson and Dr. Philip Zelazo received a top award this month in the global Tools Competition, which aims to address pressing issues in education.

Philip Zelazo, the Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor in the Institute of Child Development, was recently awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Developmental Psychology award from the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 7.

Since 2019, the Young Scientists Program has brought together faculty and students from the Institute of Child Development and middle school students from Ascension Academy in Minneapolis to explore developmental psychology research questions.

Cala Hefferan is a 2021 graduate of the Institute of Child Development's master's program in applied child and adolescent development - child life track. Today, you can find her at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), where she is one of the Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) and the Primary Facility Dog Handler.

Ann Masten, PhD, Regents Professor in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has received the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for her landmark body of work that identified “ordinary magic” as a contributor to resilience in children. Over the course of Masten’s career in resilience science, which began in the 1970s, she […]

In this Q & A, speech-language pathologist Chris Wing, PhD '13, explains how language development is linked to attachment and emotional regulation. She also talks about encouraging children and adults to tell personal stories as a strategy to build their communication and executive functioning skills.

A cross-disciplinary UMN research team has been awarded a major federal grant. The grant will fund a study of the effects of child care subsidy policies on families' access to high quality child care.

The Child Development Laboratory School is hosting its first Visiting Research Scholar through summer of 2024. Ozge Metin Aslan (she/her/hers) will be observing, studying, and collaborating on research projects with CDLS and will also guest teach. Her educational background includes a PhD, MS and BA all in Early Childhood Education from Hacettepe University in Ankara, […]

The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) field is growing and the Institute of Child Development’s programs—led by Elizabeth Carlson, PhD, U of MN Harris Program Director—have been at the forefront of ensuring that the Minnesota early childhood workforce and state policy makers have access to the latest scientific developments to support children and […]