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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 […]

ICD PhD 3rd year student Bria Gresham recently published an opinion piece in MinnPost’s Community Voices feature titled “It was a night like any other: A victim-oriented approach to crime in Minneapolis”. She shared the experiences of her husband, whose car was stolen and who was robbed at gunpoint while delivering pizzas within the span […]

Alyssa Meuwissen, PhD, explores ways in which adults benefit from using their imaginations, just as children do.

Recent presentations Ferguson, G. M., Simenec, T. S., Banegas, J., Meeks, J. M., Nelson, M., Koester, B., Fiese, B. H., Powell, R., Harnack, L., Anderson, A., Ibrahim, S., Dwivedi, R., JUS Media Team. (2022, September). Transdisciplinary team science for   adolescent health: A data walk from USA to Jamaica and back. Presentation delivered at the Society […]