Human Development and Family Sciences

Working closely with faculty, our students explore such diverse topics as self-regulation in young children,family care giving to dependent adults, development in adolescents at risk, fatherhood, families in poverty, and stress and coping. Faculty involvement in federally funded research, as well as community and policy initiatives, provides opportunities for students to develop and apply new knowledge.

Research Topics

HDFS Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty are actively involved in research projects related to their background and interests.

Research presentations and publications

Human Development and Family Studies graduate students typically leave Oregon State with a record of presentations and publications. Students present their research annually at national meetings including the American Psychological Association, the American Sociological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, the National Council on Family Relations, and the Society for Research in Child Development.

In the last five years, graduate students have coauthored articles published in the American Journal of Public Health, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Family Theory and Review, the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Research in Human Development,and other prestigious, scholarly journals.

Members of the HDFS faculty work with graduate students as colleagues and as coauthors.