HDFS’ Professor Steven Wisensale has been named a Fulbright Scholar to Japan for the Spring 2017 term. He will be assigned to Kyoritsu Women’s University (Tokyo) and Yokohama City University (40 miles outside Tokyo) where he will teach two courses: “Family Policy in Aging Societies” and “Baseball Diplomacy in Japanese-U.S. Relations.”

Professor Laura Mauldin has published a book titled “Made To Hear.” The book is based on an ethnography of a cochlear implant (CI) clinic and examines the use of CIs in deaf children, the role of neuroscience in the culture of intervention around deafness, and how mothers are expected to adopt CIs for their deaf child. Published by the University of Minnesota Press (2016).