Department of Family Social Science

50th Anniversary

Students and faculty


  • Wayne Caron with a student at commencement.

  • FSOS Department Head Jan Hogan at the FSOS undergraduate showcase.
  • A grad student with two professors.
    Celebrating a newly minted PhD! Drs. Virginia Solis Zuiker (left) and Jean Bauer (right) congratulate Mary Jo Bartels.

  • William Goodman (center) with a student and her mother.

  • Dan Detzner with students.

  • Paul Rosenblatt (right) with students at the FSOS undergraduate showcase.

  • FSOS Department Head Jan McCulloch and William Goodman, director of undergraduate services.

  • FSOS graduate student Sarah Lassig (left) with FSOS Department Head Jan Hogan at a scholarship event.

  • William Goodman and an undergraduate at the Department undergraduate showcase.
  • professor and graduate students.
    Left to right: Pauline Boss, professor with graduate students Christi McGeorge and Tai Mendenhall in New York City following the 9/11 attacks. McGeorge is now a professor of Human Development and Family Science at North Dakota State University. Mendenhall is associate professor in the U of M’s Department of Family Social Science.

  • Left to right: Hal Grotevant, Carolyn Tubbs, Paulin Rosenblatt and Amanda Siegenthaler. Several professors and research assistants explored a graduate program specialization in family diversity. Drs. Carolyn Tubbs, Paul Rosenblatt, and Hal Grotevant were awarded a Bush Diversity Grant to support this initiative. The goal was to link diversity to all areas.

  • Jean Bauer and a student at the FSOS undergraduate showcase.