Department of Child and Family Studies

Chancellor’s Honors and Academic Awards Banquet Recognizes Outstanding Achievements Students, faculty, and staff from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (CEHHS) received numerous accolades for …

The College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences is proud of our faculty, staff and students. Several were named as recipients at the 2021 Chancellor’s Honors banquet. — Excellence in …

Three faculty from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (CEHHS) were recently awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Computer Science for All program. This funding will bring Culturally …

Child and Family Studies Jeremy Kanter is an assistant professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies. In 2019, he received his PhD in Human Development and Family Science from …

Photography by Dani Rose Thibus Across the Southeast, early childhood educators are visiting UT’s Early Learning Center (ELC) to learn about designing early learning experiences for young children. A part …

Research from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences is getting widespread attention. Take a look at some of our faculty’s latest work and where it has turned up …

Written by Whitney Heins Many children want to be an astronaut when they grow up. Or a professional basketball player. Or a famous singer. Not Ellen McIntyre. Growing up in …

Bob Rider served as dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences from 2004 to 2019. Prior to coming to Knoxville, he served as dean of the College …

Bilingual children do not have more advantages than monolingual children when it comes to executive function, which includes remembering instructions, controlling responses, and shifting swiftly between tasks, according to a …

UT’s Early Learning Center, an early childhood education facility and child development laboratory affiliated with the Department of Child and Family Studies in UT’s College of Education, Health, and Human …