OSU-BGSU Graduate Student Conference
20th Annual OSU-BGSU Graduate Student Conference Program Schedule
Date: Friday, November 13, 2026 | Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
| Time | Session / Event | Details & Presentations |
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| 9:30am - 10:00am | Check-In & Registration | Bowen-Thompson Student Union - Room 308 |
| 10:00am - 10:10am | WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS |
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| 10:10am - 11:15am | SESSION 1: IMMIGRATION | Session Chair: Austin McWhorter, Bowling Green State University Being Seen as a Troublemaker: Informal Reputational Labeling and School Fighting Among Immigrant Youth Navigating Oceans and Cornfields: Marshallese Liminal Legality in Ohio Immigration Policy Climate, Parental Citizenship, and Food Assistance Among U.S.-Born Hispanic Children Gendered Destinations: How Family Networks Shape Where Central American Migrants Go |
| 11:15am - 11:25am | BREAK | |
| 11:25am - 12:30pm | SESSION 2: SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITIES | Session Chair: Isabel Pereira de Almeida, Bowling Green State University A Thematic Analysis of Diversified Need Fulfillment in Polyamorous Relationships Family Acceptance and Parenthood: A Focus on Different-Gender and Same-Gender Couples Functional Health among Sexually Diverse Older Adults: The Role of Social Ties Sexual Orientation Discordance and Loneliness |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH | |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS (All sessions run concurrently) TABLE 1: UNION INSTABILITY | Roundtable Chair: Hannah Smith, Bowling Green State University The Impacts of Self-Rated Health on Union Formation and Dissolution Until Health Do Us Part: How Health Shocks Impact Marriage Stability in Later Life Unstable Partnerships and Fertility Expectations Across Adulthood: Evidence from the NLSY97 |
| TABLE 2: SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITIES | Roundtable Chair: Olivia Morrison, Bowling Green State University Dividing the Housework: The Role of Relative Education Among Same- and Different-Gender Couples The Role of Sex and Sexual Identity in the Association of Tobacco Use and C-Reactive Protein Levels | |
| TABLE 3: YOUTH, FAMILY SYSTEMS, AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS | Roundtable Chair: Andrea Constant, The Ohio State University The Impact of Response to DEI Policy Changes: Belonging and Counterspaces among Racial Minority Students Stress and Stigma, Family Structure Changes, and Daily Activities: Mechanisms Towards Negative Educational Outcomes Following Paternal Incarceration Parental Imbalance: An Analysis of Justice-Involved Youths' Substance Use Patterns by Parental Warmth | |
| 2:30pm - 2:40pm | BREAK | |
| 2:40pm - 3:30pm | SESSION 3: WEALTH AND WELL-BEING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE | Session Chair: Mayanna Weed, Bowling Green State University Private Wealth, Public Protection: How Welfare States Shape the Consequences of Asset Inequality in Later Life Competing Adverse Childhood and Protective Childhood Experiences on Early Midlife Health and Well-Being Financing Family Obligations: Parental Student Debt and Mother-Adult Child Relationships |
| 3:30pm | CLOSING REMARKS | Dr. Sarah Hayford, Director of the Institute for Population Research, The Ohio State University |