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youth and family studies

An ongoing study is examining how internal school controls, such as guidelines implemented by a school’s administrators and teachers, can mediate the impact of external controls from the federal, state and city level.

Project probes how schools' external, internal controls impact student learning opportunities

June 1, 2021

Society & Culture

Yan Ruth Xia

Q&A: Asian American prof reflects on long history of racism

May 24, 2021

Society & Culture

Sheree Moser

Moser busting myths surrounding family, consumer sciences

May 18, 2021

Society & Culture

Hannah Kerby, doctoral candidate in school psychology, is exploring how children’s social-emotional skills are influenced by their residential neighborhoods. (Photo by Chuck Green, CYFS)

Research exploring children’s resilience, socioeconomic risk

March 2, 2021

Society & Culture

‘I saw the sign’: Three little words led Dev to Lincoln, love

February 12, 2021

Nothhorn goes around the world with technology

December 16, 2020

Slam poetry participants from the 2020 Research Days event.

Dalla, Maciel share faculty slam honors

November 6, 2020

Keting Chen, human sciences doctoral student in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, is investigating how home and childcare environments affect preschool-aged children’s numeracy skills — the ability to understand and work with numbers.

Study explores ways to bolster early childhood numeracy skills

October 23, 2020

Early childhood teachers’ non-contact time — time away from students in the classroom — enables them to address other work demands, such as crafting instruction plans, assessing children’s development and communicating with families.

Study assessing how early childhood educators spend time away from students

October 21, 2020

A child plays with binoculars at the Ruth Staples Child Development Laboratory, where outdoor learning is the norm.

Outdoor learning a staple at Ruth Staples Child Development Lab

September 28, 2020

Society & Culture

CEHS

Buffett Institute awards fellowships to two Nebraska doctoral students

September 18, 2020

Teacher Elizinete Natália Queiroz de Araújo Souza (left) shows a worm to Nebraska graduate student Renata Gomes (center) and young students at EMEI Ignacio in São Paulo.

Nebraska/Brazil partnership eyes expansion of preschool science instruction

June 18, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture