Culture and Family Life Lab

PI: Gail M. Ferguson
Institute of Child Development at the U of M
Lab YouTube:

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Publication alert! Led by our PI, Dr. Ferguson, our new paper on Whiteness socialization surrounding #GeorgeFloyd's murder is now out in @APA_Journals https://t.co/eCSdkRvEVx (1/2)

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Watch this video to learn more! https://t.co/HuRzWsGAQd

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Remote enculturation involves connecting to your heritage culture from a distance: using media, eating foods, traveling to that country, and more. Our research found that young people who do more remote enculturation activities experience a number of benefits.

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

🎉 Exciting news! Cheers to a fabulous collaboration w/ @JoseCausadias @TSimenec on this integrative review paper that we hope will be useful in both research and teaching.

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

We are thrilled to work with Drs. Melissa Koenig and @CharissePickron on an antiracist parenting intervention starting this year 🎉! https://t.co/ZKTB5E0s8G

[WT Grant Foundation @wtgrantfdn]

Congrat to our 6 newest grantees who have been awarded research grants to build theory & evidence about ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Research includes reparations for Native Americans, housing, disabilities, racial equity, & education. https://t.co/7OE9Ma2Fm0

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

As a graduate student, Lauren has advocated tirelessly for other students, for her patients, and for racial justice. We are so grateful she has made the Culture and Family Life Lab her scientific home during her PhD!

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Congratulations to ✨Dr. @_lauren_eales ✨on a fabulous defense of her sweeping, mixed-methods dissertation analyzing family resilience, screen media use, and racial socialization during dual COVID-19 and Whiteness Pandemics!

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Our amazing undergrads are presenting at the @UMNews undergraduate research symposium right now! Here they are with mentors Dr. Ferguson and @SarahCGillespie @_lauren_eales @UMN_ICD

[Michaeline Jensen @mikey_jensen]

@_lauren_eales sharing her fascinating research on racial socialization via media among White families in the US #SRA2023 @SRAdolescence

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

An excellent symposium chaired by @TSimenec on school-based interventions graced #SRA2023 today!! Congrats to this great team with work by @SarahCGillespie and @DrArmandoPina

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Our team was ready and excited for #SRA2023 today!

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Are you attending #SRA2023 this weekend? Stop by lab member presentations on Saturday (and Dr. Ferguson will be at the Meet the Scientist Luncheon on Friday!)
@TSimenec @SarahCGillespie @_lauren_eales

[UMN Institute of Child Development @UMN_ICD]

Research from ICD grad student @_lauren_eales on youth and family functioning across the COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact! Her paper on youth media use during the pandemic was a 2021-22 top-cited article in the journal Child Development. Read more: https://t.co/pHXacG1rnQ

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

We are thrilled that two of our excellent undergraduate research assistants, Elizabeth Fajemirokun and Maggy Deschane, have been selected to participate in the Research Institute for Scholars of Equity (RISE) program! https://t.co/ksIClt8eD7 🥳👏

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Congratulations to @SarahCGillespie from the Project UNITE team and CFL Lab! 🎉🎉🎉

[Sarah Gillespie @SarahCGillespie]

I loved this chance to share work I'm passionate about and meet other graduate students in the college! Thanks @UMN_CEHD for organizing this 3 Minute Thesis competition.

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Congrats to @_lauren_eales on chairing a great symposium on media use during COVID-19 @SRCDtweets! @UMN_ICD

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

A paper out of our lab led by grad student @_lauren_eales (with contributions from @SarahCGillespie, Reece Alstat, our PI Dr. Gail Ferguson, and Dr. Stephanie Carlson) was a top-cited article in Child Development from 2021-2022! 🥳🥳

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

In a recent pilot study, we found JUS Media? Global Classroom, a digital, culturally adapted, food focused, media literacy intervention, to be acceptable, feasible, and effective. Learn more below!

[Darlene Kertes 🧬🤱🏻💆🏻‍♀️ @DrDarleneKertes]

CALL FOR PAPERS: TWO WEEKS TO ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. Special issue of Journal of Research on Adolescence. Creative empirical & review papers welcome. Abstracts due Mar 1 full papers Aug 15 https://t.co/rN2fy9byFw #adolesence #interdiscplinaryresearch #JRA

[Tori Simenec @TSimenec]

Thrilled to share our team's new manuscript supporting the design of accessible and culturally relevant interventions using a novel "blueprint storyboarding" method!

Check it out here! 👇👇
https://t.co/9YCI8wi4s2
@Ferguson_Lab @SPRORG

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

Salma's submission highlighted her work with the JUS Media? Global Classroom project; a food-focused digital intervention program that provides low-cost, adaptable, and accessible curriculum that teaches media literacy to black youth targeted by unhealthy food advertising. (2/2)

[Culture and Family Life Lab @Ferguson_Lab]

A senior undergraduate research assistant in our lab, @SalmaIbrahim__, received the Sharon Stephens Brehm Undergraduate Psychology Scholarship awarded to outstanding psychology undergraduate students by the American Psychological Foundation 👏🥳 (1/2)