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Welcome to new ICD staff

ICD welcomes three new staff members for the academic year 2024-25. Welcome to Hannah Baxter, Tom Boyle, and Addy Hernick!

Two recent ICD doctoral alumni win dissertation awards

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.

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Young Scientists outreach program celebrates 5 years

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 Professor Melissa Koenig stands in front of a research poster with a group of middle school students

Meet Cala Hefferan, ICD MA alumna and Certified Child Life Specialist

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.

Photo of Cala Hefferan with her dog

Ann Masten wins University of Louisville Grawemeyer $100k psychology award

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 […]

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