Creating community
When Julie Vang began her first year at the U, she searched for a sense of community on campus. She found it by residing in Hmong House—Tsev Hmoob—one of more than 30 living–learning communities...
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Understanding how genes and environment interact
Epigenetics—the study of the mechanisms by which genes and environment interact—is a fast-growing field. Many disciplines are grappling with the implications of path-breaking studies in the ongoing...
View ArticleThe excitement of prevention
Professor Gerry August spent the early years of his career developing assessment tools and interventions in children’s mental health—attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct...
View ArticleKeep dancing
Kirsten Lind Seal’s path to becoming a counselor, teacher, and relationship expert was an unlikely one. “Ever since I was a small child, I knew I wanted to perform,” she says. It was that passion that...
View ArticleCourageous heart
Youth worker Lindsay Walz, ’13, opens the doors of her arts center every school day at 3 p.m. and welcomes a steady stream of young people eager to make art together. The small building that houses her...
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Body as canvas
“My tattoos help me, or at least in the way I see them, help me reclaim my body in a way I feel I haven’t been given the opportunity. I feel a lot of people have been born into their bodies and feel...
View ArticleWe are family
It’s a room in Appleby Hall, anchored between the Mississippi River and Pleasant Street. There, every Wednesday at noon for 11 years, black students at the predominantly white University of Minnesota...
View ArticleA force for families
Belle Yaffe’s calling springs from her family’s membership in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota. As children, her parents were forced to leave home to attend mission-run Indian...
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Financially capable
Joyce Serido had a hunch. Financial well-being is her focus as a family social scientist. Working with young people and families, she observed that how people use money matters more than financial...
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Bringing parent education to Iceland
In 2010, an ambitious graduate student named Hrund Þórarins Ingudóttir enrolled in coursework for CEHD’s parent and family education program—all the way from Iceland. The program’s classes were...
View ArticleFinding place
“I’ve always been a people person,” says Sonia Paredes, BS ’16. When she arrived at the U, Paredes hoped to find the right college community, but it wasn’t easy. “I definitely felt kind of isolated at...
View ArticleFostering financial education
Marvin Bauer—Marv to his many friends—is a professor emeritus in the University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). A pioneer and field shaper in the science of...
View ArticleDivergent realities
A lightbulb moment in London illuminated Jodi Dworkin’s career path toward parent–child relationships. Today Dworkin is a professor and associate head of the Department of Family Social Science. Back...
View ArticleSeeing students’ potential
Doua Yang, ’13, is loud, proud, and unapologetic—and wants you to be, too. The first female of her 15 siblings to finish college, she had to clear her own path, overcoming daunting cultural, personal,...
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