Working closely with faculty, our students explore such diverse topics as family care giving to dependent adults, family relationships, families in poverty, early childhood education, and development from infancy to late life. Faculty involvement in federally funded research, as well as community and policy initiates, provides great opportunities for students to develop and apply new knowledge.

Research Topics
Faculty are actively involved in research projects related to their background and interests.

Research presentations and publications
Human Development and Family Sciences graduate students typically leave OSU with a record of presentations and publications. Students present their research annually at national meetings including the Gerontological Society of America, the National Council on Family Relations, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for the Study of Close Relationships, and the Society for Research in Child Development.

In the last five years, graduate students have published articles in the Journal of Marriage and Family, the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, The Gerontologist, the Journal of Family Psychology, and other prestigious, scholarly journals. Members of the HDFS faculty work with graduate students as colleagues and as coauthors.

Graduate Student Research Topics
Student Thesis Topics and Abstracts