- PhD student Hunmin Cha has been awarded the Ray Travel Award for Service and Scholarship from the Council of Graduate Students at The Ohio State University.
- Dr. Lee is the recipient of the 2025 Society for Social Work and Research Excellence in Research Award. The awarded publication is "Family Stress Processes Underlying Material Hardship and Parental Detachment and Warmth Amongst Racially Diverse Fathers and Mothers with Low Income."
- Dr. Lee is the recipient of the 2025 Society for Social Work and Research Excellence in Research Award. The awarded publication is "Family Stress Processes Underlying Material Hardship and Parental Detachment and Warmth Amongst Racially Diverse Fathers and Mothers with Low Income."
- Dr. Lee is Co-Principal Investigator on a grant awarded from Ohio Commission on Fatherhood, Ohio Department of Children and Youth ($3,000) from 2024–2025! The grant title is “Reading with Dad: Father-Child Event for June is Responsible Fatherhood Month” (Co-PI: Susan Yoon).
- Incoming PhD student Amy Xu is the recipient of the 2024 Graduate Access Fellowship in the amount of $33,333. Congratulations, Amy!
- Congratulations to Dr. Lee and Co-Investigator Dr. Mengo on their grant award from the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University in the amount of $40,000! The grant title is “Identifying Child Welfare System Processes Associated with Maternal and Child Health Disparities” from 6/1/2024-7/31/2025.
- Incoming PhD student Hannah Steinke is the recipient of the 2024 University Fellowship in the amount of $33,333, as well as the 2023 Brubaker College of Social Work Scholarship in the amount of $9,075. Both awards are from The Ohio State University. Congratulations, Hannah!
- Dr. Lee is Co-Investigator on a grant awarded from the Duke Endowment and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The grant is titled, "Children with disabilities: Increasing caregivers' capacity and improving child outcomes" and the project is funded for 2024-2028. Congratulations!
- Dr. Lee is Co-Investigator on grants awarded from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ($1,200,000) and Duke Endowment ($1,700,000) for 2023–2028! The grant title is “Children with Disabilities: Increasing Caregivers’ Capacity and Improving Child Outcomes” (PI: Ramona Denby-Brinson; Co-I: Nancy Mendoza, Yanfeng Xu, Qi Wu, Eun Koh).
- PhD student Yujeong Chang is the recent recipient of the Paul Kim scholarship! This award is focused on supporting doctoral & postdoc students of Korean heritage in making significant contributions to the social work profession. Congratulations Yujeong!
- MSW student Hannah Steinke is the Erika, Andra, and Inara Brubaker Endowed Scholarship Fund for Academic Excellence in Domestic Violence and Child Welfare recipient in the College of Social Work. Congratulations, Hannah!
- Dr. Lee was awarded the Tony Tripodi Prize for Research Excellence from OSU's College of Social Work. The “Tony” Research Award is an endowed, monetary award made annually on a competitive basis to a full-time tenure track faculty member whose research productivity holds promise for making a significant contribution to social work knowledge and practice.
- Co-Investigator Dr. Lee, along with Principal Investigator Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, PhD and Co-Investigator Rin Reczek, was awarded a grant in the amount of $39,909 from the Institution for Population Research at The Ohio State University, for their proposal titled, “Beyond mothers vs. fathers: Gender-inclusive assessment of parenting behavior” (6/1/2023-7/31/2024).
- Dr. Lee was selected to be a member of the Child Well-Being Research Network, a very prestigious fellowship in the area of child welfare. This membership includes access to interdisciplinary connections; access to funding opportunities; participation in writing groups and retreats; and highlighting of published work in the networks’ website and newsletters.
- Sarah Presley (MSW student/graduate research assistant) was selected as the recipient for the Council on Social Work Education's Minority Fellowship Program for Master's Students. The Minority Fellowship Program is designed to enhance the training of full-time, master’s-level social work students passionate about meeting the mental health needs of BIPOC communities, in their final year of study in social work.
- Dr. Lee, along with Dr. Susan Yoon and Action for Children, was awarded a grant in the amount of $20,000 from The Ohio State University to supplement the DREAM Project.
- Dr. Lee, along with Dr. Susan Yoon and Action for Children, was awarded a grant for $29,774 from the CSW Community-Engaged Research Pilot grant program at The Ohio State University, for her proposal titled, "Daddy Reads with Me: A Pilot Test of a Community-Based Participatory Virtual Dialogic Reading Intervention for Black Non-resident Fathers and Their Preschoolers."
- Dr. Lee was recently accepted as a trainee of the National Institute of Health funded Building a Multidisciplinary Pipeline of Researchers in Child Abuse and Neglect: Summer Training Institute for Early Career or Transitioning Scholars (R25HD082067). Through this opportunity, Dr. Lee will receive multidisciplinary training that will support her endeavors to better understand the etiology, epidemiology, and context of paternal child maltreatment.
- Dr. Lee was nominated for the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards at the University of Michigan. This nomination goes to a select group of doctoral graduates, who represent the best scholarly work across a broad range of disciplines and it is a high distinction to be nominated.
- Dr. Lee received the Diversity and Inclusion in Men in Families Research Article Award from the National Council on Family Relations for a paper titled, "Longitudinal relations between coparenting and father engagement in low-income residential and nonresidential father families" published in the Journal of Family Psychology.
- Dr. Lee received the "Resilience and Leadership Award" from the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, for writing and disseminating her children's book,Young, Proud, and Sung-jee in her efforts to fight anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Dr. Lee received the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Impact Award" from the School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for writing and disseminating her children's book, Young, Proud, and Sung-jee, listed above.
- W. K. Kellogg Family Endowed Fellowship, University of Michigan ($19,000)
- Social Work or Social Science Research Match, University of Michigan ($8,000)
- Regent Fellowship, University of Michigan ($20,580)
- #Parenting Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Michigan ($6,800)
- Outstanding Presentation in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association
- #Parenting Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Michigan ($6,800)
- Faculty Allies for Diversity Learning Summer Writing Fellowship, University of Michigan ($2,000)
- Institute for Social Research-Rackham Training Award, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research’s Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan ($5,655)
- Institute for Social Research-Rackham Training Award, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research’s Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan ($5,655)
- Bobbe and Jon Bridge Child Welfare Scholarship ($3,580)
- University of Michigan Regent Fellowship ($20,580)
