Six graduate students represented the Department of Family Social Science at the College of Education and Human Development Research Day Tuesday, March 26. The People’s Choice award in the Living Better, Living Longer category went to Sloan Okrey Anderson’s “I Feel Like God Doesn’t Like Me: Faith and Ambiguous Loss Among Trans Youth.”
Sloan Okrey Anderson (left), doctoral student, discussed their research into Ambiguous Loss and Faith in the poster, “I Feel Like God Doesn’t Like Me: Faith and Ambiguous Loss,” with Rayla Allison, CEHD Chief of Operations. 
Cheuk Hei (Bosco) Cheng, doctoral student, discusses his research project, “Depressive Symptoms Mediate Associations between Life Events Stress and Couple Relationships: An Actor Partner Interdependence Model Analysis,” with Jessie Rudi, CEHD research associate. 
Rayla Allison, CEHD Chief of Operations (left) also visited Seonghee Hong, doctoral candidate, to learn more about her “Parent Perceptions of Parental Goals: A Qualitative Study.” 
Anne Williams-Wengerd (left) and Alyssa Maples (center), doctoral students, discussed “The Role of Service-Learning Experiences in Promoting Flourishing among College Student Mentors: Creating Opportunities to Belong on Campus” with Research Day visitors. 
Yiting Li, doctoral student, talked about her research project, “Examining the Influence of Parental Financial Socialization on Young Adults in a Romantic Relationship.”
