Check out what our lab has been up to recently!
Media and Other Coverage
February 2023:
U of I: Youth coping strategies and physiological responses interact to affect adjustment
June 2022:
U of I: How mother-youth emotional climate helps adolescents cope with stress
April 2020:
(1) Dr. Tu talks with PositivelyDad.com about how to help families cope with COVID-19 disruptions.
(2) Check out an important resource for maintaining healthy relationships during challenging times. See other helpful resources here.
February 2020: Listen to Dr. Tu’s podcast with PositivelyDad.com
Science Daily: Sleep Better, Parent Better
Child Trends News Service Video: Moms Who Sleep Better, Parent Better
U of I: Adolescent Sleep Problems Linked with Being Bullied
ACES: Discover What We Do and Why It Matters- Parental Social Coaching
Achievements and Photo Gallery
2023
2022
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2020
Last lab meeting of the semester… we did our best to celebrate everyone’s accomplishments this year via Zoom!
This year, our undergraduate students went virtual for the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Thankful for all of the efforts from the Office of Undergraduate Research who made this year’s virtual symposium possible so that students could present their research! A big congratulations to our seniors, Tess O’Brien (’19), Lauren Broderick (’20), and Jordan Halic (’20) on their research presentations! Above are the posters they presented.
Tianying presenting her master’s thesis at the HDFS Colloquium, Graduate Student Spotlight on February 7. Her thesis manuscript was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology! Congratulations, Tianying on two wonderful accomplishments! Keep an eye out for her publication, entitled “Linking parental monitoring and psychological control with internalizing symptoms in early adolescence: The moderating role of vagal tone.”
2019
Monisha (’21), an ACES Summer Research Intern in Summer 2019, presented her independent research project, “The Association between Media Usage and Well-Being among Adolescents”, at the ACES Summer Internship Poster Session on September 23.
Graduate student Xiaomei Li presenting her thesis research at the HDFS Colloquium on August 30.
Brett (’19) and Kelsie (’20) presenting their project titled, “The Transition to Middle School: Youth Worries and Mothers’ and Fathers’ Parenting Behaviors” at the U of I Undergraduate Research Symposium. Tianying served as the graduate mentor on this project.
Shayne (’19) and Sami (’19) presenting their project titled, “The Importance of Talking about Social Problems” at the U of I Undergraduate Research Symposium. Xiaomei served as the graduate mentor on this project.
Graduate students Xiaomei and Tianying (left to right) attending and presenting at their first Society for Research in Child Development conference in Baltimore, MD.
Lab bowling to celebrate the end of the year! Thankful for this great team of students who accomplished so much this year!
2018
HDFS Undergraduates Micah, Fan, and Bridget (from left to right; and Drs. Gail Ferguson and Kelly Tu) had the opportunity to attend the Society for Research on Adolescence in Minneapolis, MN.
Fan (’18) presenting her project titled, “The Bidirectional Effect of Mother-Adolescent Interactions” at the U of I Undergraduate Research Symposium. Graduate student mentor: Niyantri Ravindran.
Dr. Kelly Tu and Fan on the Quad before graduation weekend.
Celebrating the end of the year with a great team of graduate and undergraduate students!