The 2016 CYFS Summit on Research in Early Childhood highlighted the power of partnerships, both local and global. Service providers, educators, administrators and researchers converged in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 7 to learn the latest science in early childhood—and its implications for practice and policy.
Name: Morgan Holmen
Hometown: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Major: Speech Language Pathology in the College of Education and Human Sciences
Graduation Date: May 2016
CYFS Affiliation: Undergraduate research assistant
What is your role as a CYFS undergraduate research assistant?
Registration is open for the June 13 Bullying Prevention Conference: Identifying and Intervening in Early Childhood at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Nebraska Innovation Campus. The conference is free and open to the public, but space is limited.
CYFS faculty affiliate Matt Fritz was invited to give a presentation at The Pennsylvania State University on March 23 as part of the Prevention and Methodology Training colloquia series. He shared a presentation titled “The mediated effect is significant, so I’m done, right? Thinking critically about testing and interpreting mediated effects in prevention interventions.”
Name: Benjamin Baumfalk
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Major/program: Quantitative, Qualitative and Psychometric Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology
CYFS graduate assistantship: CYFS’ Bureau for Education Research, Evaluation and Policy, and the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded professorships to three CYFS faculty affiliates:
Martha Mamo was named Aaron Douglas/John E. Weaver Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture. The professorship recognizes faculty members with the rank of full professor who demonstrate sustained levels of teaching excellence and national visibility for instructional activities and/or practice.
Name: Micheale J. Marcus
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Major/program: School Psychology
CYFS graduate assistantship: Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Anticipated date of graduation: May 2021
Describe your CYFS graduate assistantship and how it fits with your research goals?
When Alexis Verzal first arrived at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., her future held many more questions than answers. While her parents Tiffany and Brandon Verzal grappled with these unknowns, this much they knew: Their world had been turned upside down.