Awards
Dr. Andrea Wittenborn received the Dr. Bernard DuBray Lifetime Achievement Award from from Southeast Missouri State University in recognition of outstanding professional accomplishment and meritorious service to the field of study by an alumnus.
“This recognition is deeply meaningful to me—not just because of what it represents, but because it’s coming from the place that gave me my academic start and truly changed the course of my life,” Dr. Wittenborn said in her acceptance speech.
Dr. Erica Mitchell received the 2024 Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Article of the Year Award for her article, "Improvements in depressive symptoms following a brief relationship intervention," that was published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the flagship journal for the field of couple and family therapy.
“We found that individuals who participated in the Relationship Checkup -- a brief couples intervention) reported improvements in depressive symptoms, and this was true even for participants who reported more severe symptoms at baseline,” Dr. Mitchell said. “This is a 2-session intervention that offers more accessibility than a longer course of couple therapy, and thus these findings that show reductions in depressive symptoms are exciting.”
Sophia Ryan has been named Outstanding Senior and received the Board of Trustees’ Award for academic excellence, 4.0 GPA.
In the Media
MSU Today reported the news that the “MSU Child Development Lab expands to Lansing’s Eastside neighborhood.”
Also in MSU Today, our Child Development: Birth to Kindergarten and Special Education degree and licensure pass rate was featured in story, “MSU program addresses state’s early childhood educator staffing shortage.”