Frank Fincham

FSU research: Helicopter parenting hinders children’s self-control skills

Published: November 13, 2019 | 3:42 pm | Posted in: Education & Society, News

Parents who continue to hover over their children as they move through early adulthood and begin college: Please don’t. New research from Florida State University explores how helicopter parenting leads to lower self-control among young adults, which could contribute to school burnout. The research also suggests that helicopter parenting from fathers could be especially harmful. […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: April 2018

Published: April 20, 2018 | 10:27 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS AND AWARDS Matthew Goldmark, Ph.D. (Modern Languages and Linguistics) received the “Best Journal Article by a Junior Scholar” award from the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) Colonial Section for his article “Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality,” a study of the famed “Lieutenant Nun,” Catalina […]

FSU research: Add cardio to pump up math, reading scores

Published: December 13, 2017 | 10:28 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Frank Fincham, FSU eminent scholar and director of the FSU Family Institute

Exercise has long been described as the magic pill for a variety of health conditions, but new research from Florida State University shows that it could also help boost students’ academic performances. In a paper published in the Journal of Exercise Physiology, researchers from Florida State and Larkin Community Hospital in Miami outlined new data […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: May 2017

Published: May 16, 2017 | 10:50 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORS AND AWARDS Martin Mende, Ph.D. (Business) has been selected as the 2017 Emerging Scholar by the Marketing and Society Special Interest Group (MASSIG) of the American Marketing Association (AMA). The award honors the contributions of a researcher in the early stages of his or her academic career who tackles societal issues of significance that substantially advance our […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: November 2016

Published: November 8, 2016 | 9:35 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff Briefs

HONORABLE AND NOTABLE Ken Brummel-Smith, M.D. (Medicine) has announced plans to retire in 2017. Brummel-Smith served as a founding chair of the Department of Geriatrics from 2003-2015. Before arriving at FSU, Brummel-Smith served as the medical director to the PACE Elderplace program in Portland, Ore., and as the Bain Chair of the Providence Center on […]