Associate Professor Laura Mauldin was quoted in an article in The Atlantic titled, “Long Covid is Being Erased—Again”. Read the article here.

Vida Samuel was selected to the 2023 cohort at The Campaign School at Yale (https://www.tcsyale.org/) this summer. The Campaign School is a bipartisan, weeklong boot camp for women wishing to run for public office or others who want to manage women’s campaigns. CT’s Lt. Governor Bysiewicz and Johanna Hayes and Gabby Giffords are alumni of the program. The cohort will include 80 national and international participants – primarily women and four men who run women’s campaigns. Vida is also a recipient of one of Fairfield County’s Community Fund inaugural scholarships.

Congratulations to Rachel Tambling who will be officially be promoted to Professor, and Caitlin Lombardi who will officially be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of August 31st!

Professor Keith Bellizzi was featured in UConn Today discussing the problems with replacing human interactions with patient portals in health care settings. Read the article here.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was recently interviewed by The Associated Press about potential effects of new anti-obesity medications on societal weight stigma. Read the AP article here.

Rebecca was also interviewed by Fortune about new legislation proposed in NYC to ban weight discrimination. Read the article here.