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Doctoral candidate Linghua Jiang recently had a paper accepted to Journal of Research on Adolescence, which focuses on how the associations between parental closeness and sexual behavior change over the course of adolescence and young adulthood. The paper applied the time-varying effect model (TVEM) to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult…

Three students from the HEART lab were recognized with awards at the Human Developmental and Family Studies end of the year awards ceremony. Linghua Jiang received the HDFS Doctorate Awards for Research Excellence, which is awarded to an HDFS student who has excelled in academics, research, and leadership. Kirstin Clear was awarded the Alice Sterling…

HEART Lab Director Dr. Sara Vasilenko recently received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Syracuse University. She joined the HDFS faculty in August of 2018 and regularly teaches courses in Statistics and Adolescent Development. Since arriving at SU she also received two grants from the Eunice Kennedy…