Sophia Magro won the 2024 University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award for Social Sciences. Marissa Nivison was awarded the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies 2024 Dissertation Award for Excellence in Attachment Research.
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.
ICD presented departmental awards to five undergraduate students at the May faculty meeting. Dr. Chryle Elieff, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Developmental Psychology, delivered the awards and shared remarks about each of the students.
This spring, ICD senior developmental psychology student Carolyn Sackett was selected to present their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) project at the College of Education and Human Development's (CEHD) Research and Innovation Day.
Lydia Lewis, a 2nd year PhD student in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Philip Zelazo, PhD, Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has been elected to the 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) class of fellows.
