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

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

Our team was ready and excited for #SRA2023 today!

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

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! nccu.edu/soe/rise 🥳👏

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!

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)

Dr. Ferguson and @SarahCGillespie presented at #APA2022, in a symposium including excellent talks by @HelenNeville12 and @jabaied. We are grateful and inspired to be part of the community of scholars discussing Whiteness and racism, including @SeatonEleanor and Dean Grier-Reed.

If you're attending @APA, come join our discussion on tackling the Whiteness Pandemic and colorblind racial ideology from parenting to policy! Featuring presentations by Dr. Gail Ferguson, @SarahCGillespie, @jabaied, and discussant @HelenNeville12!

Yu Zhang: Friend Group Diversity and Civic Engagement Among Adolescents

Vivian Pham: Did Black Immigrant Teens Change Their Thinking About Race During the Dual Pandemics of 2020-2021?

Hattie Gibson: Reflections on the Transdisciplinary Research Process: Integrating Biology, Society, and the Environment (BSE) in the Food, Culture, and Health Study

@SalmaIbrahim__ Assessing the Acceptability of the JUS Media? Program, a Food-focused Media Literacy Digital Intervention, Culturally Adapted for Somali-American Youth

@ecKeRSt0rFeR: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Analyze the Efficacy of the JUS Media? Global Classroom with Somali American Adolescents

We are thrilled to have so much of our lab here at #SRA2022 @SRAdolescence! Our PI, Dr. Gail Ferguson, is joined by grad and undergrad students (some part of the #USPScholars program). We are all excited to join colleagues in talking about current topics in adolescence!

Diversity science principles were an important part of our process for the @APA_Journals paper. Watch @KeiraLeneman discuss how these principles guided our research youtu.be/zZiIvbNdi3g (1/2)

How do White children develop their racial identity, and how can parents socialize White children to have antiracist beliefs and a positive White identity? Co-author @SarahCGillespie dives into this topic discussed in our @APA_Journals paper here: youtu.be/666o2NuXmSg

Watch @SarahCGillespie talk about Whiteness to learn more about Dr. Janet Helms' theory of White Racial Identity Development (key to our @APAJournals paper) youtu.be/e1WQmx-OPMA