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- Dr. Ferguson was interviewed on 9/23/22 for the local Star Tribune about her Whiteness Pandemic project. Read the interview here to learn more about the study and preliminary findings a year later.
- Dr. Ferguson explains on 4/11/22 that: “The Whiteness Pandemic is Behind the Racism Pandemic” in this blog post for “Character and Context” from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- Dr. Ferguson penned an op-ed in MinnPost on 10/7/21: “The importance of talking to children about race and racism (including your own)” sharing the findings of a recent study (Ferguson, Eales, Gillespie, & Leneman, 2021) When parents and other adults are silent about race, it communicates apathy or approval of racism, even if that’s not what adults intend.” Click here to read the Op-Ed
- Dr. Ferguson was interviewed for this National Geographic Family Article on 2/4/21: “Missing family during the pandemic? Celebrate your ancestry with recipes. Connecting kids to their heritage can provide them with lasting mental health benefits.”
- Dr. Ferguson was interviewed for this yes! Magazine article on 1/26/21: “Immigrant Families Reconnect to Cultural Practices During the Pandemic: From making comfort food to speaking with ancestors, immigrant families across the U.S. are turning to cultural traditions to cope with the isolation and stress of quarantine.”
- Dr. Ferguson was interviewed for a 1/13/2021 article on open access publishing in Continuum, a publication of UMN Libraries: Giving child development research away: Intentionally free, open, and accessible worldwide. This article describes the choice of an open access psychology journal to publish a recent co-authored lab article (Eales, Gillespie, Eckerstorfer, Eltag, Global Educators Group, Ferguson, 2020).
- Dr. Ferguson was interviewed for a brief news piece by the Minnesota News Network on 5/11/2020 regarding screen time tips for parents/teens during COVID-19 .
- Two PhD students (Sarah Gillespie, Lauren Eales), and one undergraduate student in the CFL Lab (Sarah Eckerstorfer) were selected as UMN winners of a grant competition for Spring, 2020.
- Dr. Ferguson, Lauren Eales, and Sarah Gillespie contributed to this 4/23/20 piece on managing children’s media environment and their exposure to advertising during COVID-19
- Two PhD students (Sarah Gillespie, Lauren Eales), and one undergraduate student in the CFL Lab (Sarah Eckerstorfer) were selected as UMN winners of a grant competition for Spring, 2020.
- Dr. Ferguson featured in U of M’s 5Qs with the experts discussing advertising, media literacy, and youth health and well-being. This is an outgrowth of the transdisciplinary JUS Media? Programme project on which she has collaborates with University of Illinois Advertising Professor, Michelle Nelson. See the online article published 1/31/2020.
- Dr. Gail Ferguson was interviewed on “Power to the Parents” broadcast on KMOJ 89.9 in Minneapolis, MN on parenting and children’s media. The first of the 2-part interview led by show co-host Sondra Samuels (CEO, Northside Achievement Zone) aired live on 11/10/19, and the second part will air on an upcoming Sunday @ 11:30 AM Central. Click here for the guidelines on child screen media use Dr. Ferguson mentions on the show.
- Is it JUS Media? Creating a new global health intervention to combat U.S. media influences on eating habits in the Caribbean. Article published on the UIUC College of Media website discussing the JUS Media? Programme
- Article on Culture and Family Life Study—Haiti Replication in featured on sciencedaily.com.
- Culture and Family Life research findings on Tridimensional (3D) Acculturation were featured on esciencenews.com, sciencedaily.com, and africanamericans.einnew.com
- The Culture and Family Life Study was referenced in an article “Disenchantment in the Promised Land” in the Jamaica Observer
- JUS Media? Programme featured in the August, 2016 Newsletter of the Caribbean Child Development Centre, University of the West Indies Open Campus
