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The Sanford School
Monthly News Blast
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Dear Colleagues,
This is the final News Blast of the 2017-2018 academic year in the Sanford School. Congratulations to those of you who are graduating this week! We wish you all the best as you pursue new challenges, and we look forward to hearing about your future accomplishments. Please read more about the accomplishments of several of our graduates featured the “In the News” section below.
We also congratulate several Sanford School faculty and students for receiving special awards in the past month. Assistant Professor Justin Jager received the prestigious Centennial Professorship Award for his excellence in teaching and leadership within and beyond the classroom. Graduate student Annabelle Atkin won the Arijit Guha Student Advocacy award from the Graduate and Professional Student Association. Finally, Sanford School graduate students were well represented in the Institute for Social Science Research student poster competition. Congratulations to Danming An for earning a third place award; her project is described below.
Enjoy the upcoming commencement festivities, and have a terrific summer!
Sincerely,
Marilyn Thompson
Associate Director
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics
Please e-mail Shelley (shelley.linford@asu.edu) your good news and information regarding upcoming events.
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Awards and Accomplishments
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Justin Jager won the Centennial Professorship Award in honor of excellence in teaching.
Annabelle Atkin won the Arijit Guha Advocacy Award from GPSA and the Martha E. Bernal Scholarship from the Psychology department.
Danming An won third place in the Institute for Social Science Research student poster competition. Her poster, "Do cultural orientations moderate the relations between adolescents’ social withdrawal and psychological adjustment," was based on the data she collected in China in 2016. The results showed that Chinese adolescents' shyness (i.e., fearful social withdrawal) and unsociability (i.e., non-fearful social disinterest) positively predicted their depressive symptoms and loneliness, but the association between shyness and depressive symptoms was attenuated by adolescents' collectivistic cultural value, and the association between unsociability and depressive symptoms was attenuated by adolescents' individualistic cultural value.
 
Danming An was also awarded a 2017-2018 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate Excellence Award.
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Passion for helping others leads double major to career in counseling
Growing up in Phoenix, Daniela Rios always wanted to be a pediatrician and was accepted into Bioscience High School. During her senior year, she took her first psychology class and became very interested in it. Thus, she decided to major in psychology when she came to Arizona State University. Along the way, she took a particular interest in development while taking some classes in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics and decided to add on a major in family and human development. During all four years at ASU, Daniela Rios has been a part of the ProMod Peer Mentor Program, serving as a mentor to high school students in Phoenix Union district, assisting them with their FAFSA and college applications and working with their families to prepare them for college life.
In May, she is graduating with a double major in family and human development and psychology.
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Inner workings of the human mind drive grad's curiosity
Navneet Kaur was raised in India and moved to Phoenix when she was 9 years old. In high school, she took her first psychology class and discovered a passion for the field of child development. Working as a volunteer at an elderly center served to reinforce her idea that she was fascinated by the inner workings of the human mind and wanted to further her education with a focus on young children’s cognitive development. During her time at ASU, Navneet Kaur got involved in many ways, including working at the Child Study Lab, serving as an intern at the Young Minds Center for children with autism and learning disabilities, and volunteering on several research projects like the Arizona Twin Lab and the REACH Courage Lab.
When she came to ASU, Kaur decided to double major in psychology and family and human development.
During her time here, Kaur got involved in many ways, including working at the Child Study Lab, serving as an intern at the Young Minds Center for children with autism and learning disabilities, and volunteering on several research projects like the Arizona Twin Lab and the REACH Courage Lab. It is through these experiences that Kaur found that she has an interest in both typical and atypical development.
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Unique class prepares students to work with military families
We are often quick to thank military personnel for their service, but do we really offer the necessary support for them and their families? What unique challenges do they face and how can we prepare students to serve those issues? How can Arizona State University as a whole better support the military community?
These questions plagued Jennifer Brougham, of ASU’s T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. As a former military spouse, Jennifer understood the intimate challenges that military families face.
Noticing a professional need, she used her own experiences and insights from volunteering at a medical clinic to develop a proposal for a groundbreaking new course.
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Internships guide first-generation grad's career goals
A first-generation college student who grew up in Tempe, Melissa Beltran will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in sociology in May. From very early on in Beltran’s life, her parents always stressed the importance of a college education to both her and her two siblings. Thus, Beltran dedicated much of her time in middle school and high school to preparing for her time at ASU. She was part of the AVID program in middle school, which was designed to prepare students for college-level work.
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Better Together Challenge
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The Better Together Challenge, a partnership with local middle and high schools, launched this spring. The goal of the Better Together Challenge is to support students and teachers in creating school environments that are safe, inclusive, and equitable for all students, thereby promoting the idea that positive and inclusive school relationships help students thrive in the classroom and beyond. The Better Together Challenge contributes to the goals of SSFD’s Diversity and Inclusion Science Initiative and has been supported, in part, by Ms. Nikki Halle.
This year, five school teams were selected as semi-finalists to participate in the challenge: Compadre Academy, Kino Junior High School, Mountain Pointe High School, Santan Junior High School, and Tempe High School. Students, with the guidance of teachers, had the opportunity to develop and implement a project to promote school inclusion and safety. Project activities included those related to increasing awareness of mental health and suicide, encouraging belongingness, safety, and support among students, easing the transition of new students into the school, and community engagement and service. Compadre Academy was selected as the top prize winner by an independent panel of judges.
Looking ahead, The Better Together Challenge will continue and expand for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Kevin M. Korous
 Straight out of the University of Utah, I am a third year graduate student in the Family and Human Development Ph.D. program. I moved to Arizona with my life partner, Erin, and we are loving Tempe and the wonderful weather. I enjoy finding coffee shops with good espresso, eating ramen, jogging, and taking long walks with my pup. Strangely, I am also a Philadelphia Eagles fan and have been ecstatic over their first Super Bowl win. During my time at ASU I have earned my masters and first publication in an empirical journal, and I have taken classes across disciplines including racial discrimination and racial identity, culture and biology, genetic psychology, stress and the brain, and molecular genetics and genomics. I have also had the experience of working in various labs collecting different types of data such as online surveys, in-person interviews and cognitive assessments, saliva and hair samples, and leveraging published data. Additionally, I have really enjoyed working with undergraduate students and with my colleagues, faculty members, and mentors. With the interdisciplinary exposure, support from peers and mentors, and rigorous statistics training offered at ASU, I believe I can continue to pursue my long-term goals. I am very grateful to be a part of the Sanford School at ASU. |
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Research publications and presentations
The Sanford School faculty and students are highlighted in bold
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Causadias, J. M., Vitriol, J. A., & Atkin, A. L. (2018). Do we overemphasize the role of culture in the behavior of racial/ethnic minorities? Evidence of a cultural (mis)attribution bias in American Psychology. American Psychologist, 73(3), 243-255. doi:10.1037/amp0000099
Fabes, R. A., Martin, C. L., Hanish, L. D., & DeLay, D. (in press). Gender integration in coeducational classrooms: Advancing educational research and practice. School Psychology Quarterly.
Green, S. B., Pennar, A. L., & Bradley, R. H. (In press). An SEM assessment of the internal structure and predictive validity of the Abbreviated Early Adolescent HOME Inventory. Assessment.
Rodriguez, K. E., Bryce, C. I., Granger, D. A., & O’Haire, M. E. (in press). The effect of a service dog on salivary cortisol awakening response in a military population with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Manuscript accepted for publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Xiao, S. X., Cook, R. E., Martin, C. L., Nielson, G. M., & Field, R. D. (in press). Will they listen to me? An examination of in-group gender bias in children's communication beliefs. Sex Roles.
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13th Annual Youth Development Master’s Institute
Phoenix, Arizona. May 6-11, 2018
Richard Fabes and Tashia Abry will be part of the keynote presentations.
The 22nd Occasional Temperament Conference
Murcia, Spain. May, 2018
Xiao, S. X., Spinrad, T. L., & Eisenberg, N. (2018, May). Longitudinal relations of preschoolers’ anger to their prosocial behavior: The moderating role of dispositional shyness. Research will be presented at The 22nd Occasional Temperament Conference. Murcia, Spain.
Society for Prevention Research
Washington, DC. May, 2018
Lindstrom Johnson, S., Elam, K., Rogers, A. & Hilley, C. (2018, May). A Meta-Analysis of Parenting Practices and Child Psychosocial Outcomes in Trauma-Informed Parenting Interventions. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC.
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