College of Education and Human Development

Family Social Science

FSOS doctoral candidate receives prestigious fellowship

Jingchen Zhang, a doctoral candidate in FSOS.

Family Social Science Doctoral Candidate Jingchen Zhang was awarded a prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-2021 from the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School.

According to the Graduate School’s website, “The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.”

Zhang was selected based on a combination of her research proposal’s significance, innovation, and quality; her research productivity, specifically the number and quality of refereed publications and conference presentations; and the strength of the supporting letters from her advisor, Professor Abigail Gewirtz; a faculty collaborator, Timothy Piehler, assistant professor; and Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Catherine Solheim

Zhang’s research for her dissertation will be the first empirical study to test the impact of ADAPT, a parenting intervention for military families, on physiological co-regulation, and how changes in physiological co-regulation are further related to improvement in child adjustment.