Family Studies and Human Services

Jared Anderson

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Development and Change in Marital Quality across the Lifespan
• Marital Efficacy and Timing among Emerging Adults (in China)
• Military Marriages and Families
• Families & Health (Specifically, investigating how undergoing bariatric surgery effects marital relationships)

Bronwyn Fees

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• International issues in early care and education.
• Children's physical activity in child care environments.

Jane Mertz Garcia

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Dysphagia--Viscosity and sensory measures of thick liquids.
• Dysarthria--Contextual influences of speech intelligibility.

John Grable

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• We are doing risk research and martial research in personal financial planning
• If someone is interested in looking at semantic differential scales I have data that needs some work, or anyone interested in understanding risk tolerance

Elaine Johannes

Current and future areas of scholarship and reserach:

• Youth (adolescent) development
• Promotion of healthy lifestyles through community youth development
• Reduction of risk of obesity among Kansas teens
• Prevention of youth-related problem behaviors (e.g., bullying, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency)
• Impact of military deployments and military-family lifestyle on youth

Esther M. Maddux

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Imaging and treatment of financial pathology
• Maintain current financial management publications for the general public

Karen Myers-Bowman

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Parents, children, war, peace, terrorism
• service-learning in human services
• adolescent relationship development
• any sexuality topics
• parent education
• peace education

R. Roudi Nazarinia-Roy

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Relationship Satisfaction
• Multidisciplinary Research involving Money and Relationships
• Transition to Parenthood
• Societal and Cultural Influences on Parental Roles

Briana Nelson Goff

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Couples and traumatic experiences
• Military family research
• Parenting children with Down syndrome

Charlotte Shoup Olsen

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Latino-American marriages, infidelity, intergenerational family farm relationships
• Program evaluation for Couple TALK, an extension internet no-cost course, as well as other program evaluations

Walter Schumm

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• I have interest in military families
• Gulf War illnesses
• premarital education
• Islam as it compares with other religions
• marital interaction

Deb Sellers

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Relationships between generations, caregivers and care receivers, and people and their pets.
• I am currently developing a Research & Extension program that explores ageism and negative attitudes and stereotypes that younger generations hold about aging and elders.

Ann Bosma Smit

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• Relationships among speech sound disorders and other cognitive-linguistic-personality variables
• Patterns of change in young children with severe speech sound disorders
• Aspects of stuttering.

Charles A. Smith

Current and future areas of scholarship and research:

• The Origin and Growth of Courage in Children and Youth
• adolescent beliefs about the meaning of heroism
• Students can learn more about my work on courage at Raising Courageous Kids