HDFS Faculty Service Award goes to Professor Marlene Schwartz. Marlene has demonstrated excellence in both service and leadership at UConn, throughout Connecticut and at the national level. Most notable at UConn is her leadership at The Rudd Center, but she has also been involved in many committees in the department and around the university. More broadly, her service and leadership roles have aimed to identify and implement strategies to improve nutrition and provide healthy food to food-insecure children in the United States, with a specific focus on Connecticut. She has worked tirelessly with the charitable food system and school settings as part of these efforts, and has worked extremely closely with food banks and food pantries in Connecticut.  Her frequent presence on advisory committees at all levels of government shows that she is the “go to” person for environmentally-oriented policy expertise related to childhood nutrition and obesity prevention.

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