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Regents Professor Ann Masten and ICD PhD alumnus Angela Narayan received awards from the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology this month.

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

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.

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.