News and Events

• Buehler/O'Brien article featured on APA website
• Dr. Coard presents President with national task force report
• Today Show features recent findings by Drs. O'Brien and Buehler
• HDF Department featured in latest UNCG Research Magazine (pdf)
• Dr. Susan Calkins Receives Two Grant Awards in Spring 2011
• Shuntay McCoy Elected President of UNCG Graduate Student Association
• Leerkes Awarded Five-Year NIH Grant

The Department of HDFS

The Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro is committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service regarding human development and close relationships, especially marital and family relationships, across the lifespan.  Our objectives are to educate the next generation of HDFS professionals and scholars, to generate new knowledge and to foster the well-being of individuals and families in their everyday lives.   

As the premier department of its kind in North Carolina (and indeed one of the premier HDFS departments in the nation), we focus on early care and education, child and adolescent development, and family studies.  Through our programs undergraduate and graduate students can prepare for birth through kindergarten teacher licensure as well as being family life educators.  We examine the biological, psychological, social and cultural foundations of development and their implications for families, using a definition of “culture” that includes not only society, but within-society cultural groups, such as racial/ethnic and social class groups.  We are committed to three Is: innovation, interdisciplinary and internationalization.