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“People of color are now trying to overcome the sudden and violent nature of racist mass shootings while the threat of another White supremacist attack looms,”

Dr. Jocelyn Smith-Lee was quoted in a Washington Post article that examined children orphaned by gun violence. Orphaned by Gun Violence: Two Kids, Two Shootings, Two Parents Gone, written by John Woodrow Cox.

UNC Greensboro Human Development and Family Studies Alumna, Dr. Nina Smith has been selected as a co-investigator for the newly launched National African American Child and Family Research Center.

Dr. Stephanie Coard discusses stepparenting with NPR News.

Dr. Daniel Perlman, Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at UNC Greensboro, discusses loneliness with Popular Science.

ARTmail for Alzheimer’s is a partnership project between The Creative Aging Network (CANNC) and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.

Andrea G. Hunter, a professor of human development and family studies. Hunter is a chancellor’s fellow for campus climate and serves in Gilliam’s cabinet. She spends about half her time working on campus diversity efforts — promoting self-awareness and engagement with anti-racism through workshops and training, determining which campus policies and procedures undermine equity, and ensuring there’s assessment and accountability.

After graduating from UNC Greensboro’s online Human Development and Family Studies program last May and passing the K–6 licensure exams, Candace Woodell got a job teaching second grade at W.B. Wicker Elementary in Lee County. Although she had 10 years of experience as a teaching assistant, this was her first time leading a classroom of her own.

Parental messages about racism can help buffer Black teens against the psychological consequences of experiencing everyday discrimination, according to new research published in Child Development. The study provides new insight into how different messages about race can have impacts on children.

Dr. Stephanie Irby Coard, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, discusses her work and research on the psychological implications of race and ethnicity in our culture and its affects on human development and family functioning.