Center for Children and Families (CCF) founder and psychology professor Dr. Margaret Owen will retire May 31, 44 years after her first teaching assignment at The University of Texas at Dallas, an institution she enriched with her decades of service. She also was interim dean of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) on two separate occasions while serving for 14 years as director of the Center for Children and Families. “This lens has been carried down through a generation of students who were lucky enough to work under Margaret’s mentorship. Owen’s legacy is one of vision and a continued commitment to children and families,” Maguire said. “As an investigator on the NICHD study, we had questions we wanted better answers to, like the combined effects of child care and family experiences for children,” Owen said.