Sarah Rendón-García collaborated and is featured in the short-form documentary “Invisible Wounds: Unveiling Migration Trauma.” Directed by Oscar Guerra, an Associate Professor of Film and Video Production at UConn, this documentary recently premiered on PBS. You can watch it here (https://www.pbs.org/video/invisible-wounds-6zwok9/).
Month: October 2024
HDFS faculty and graduate students highlighted in InCHIP report
Check out the HDFS faculty and graduate students highlighted in the InCHIP Annual report: Rachel Chazan Cohen, Raymond Moody, Ryan Watson, Lisa Eaton, *Peter McCauley, and Keith Bellizzi.
Vanessa Esquivel receives Head Start research grant
Graduate student Vanessa Esquivel (mentee of Caitlin Lombardi), received the 2024 Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grant from the OPRE of ACF to support her dissertation research, Investigating Parent-provider Relationships In Early Head Start Among Latine Families: An Integrative Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study. She is the first UConn student to be awarded this highly competitive federal grant, which will support her work of building a comprehensive understanding of parent-provider relationships among Latine families and informing future policy and program efforts of Early Head Start and the broader field of Early Care and Education. This is a two-year award totaling $50,000. Congratulations Vanessa!
Vanessa Esquivel wins Prof Development Grant for Latino studies
Graduate student Vanessa Esquivel received the 2024 Professional Development Grant for Emerging Scholars Studying Poverty and Economic Mobility among Latino Populations from the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families. The 2024 Professional Development Grant ($2,750) aims to support the professional, academic, and scholarly development of doctoral students pursuing research that focuses on poverty and economic mobility among Latino communities.
Alumni Tanika E Simpson new Assoc Prof position at Fairfield Univ
Tanika Eaves Simpson (PhD 2018) recently returned from a six month research visit to Australia, funded by the Fulbright Global Scholars program to study perinatal health practices of indigenous and BIPOC individuals and families. She also recently received a promotion to associate professor of Social Work at Fairfield University. Learn more here: https://www.fairfield.edu/news/archive/2023/april/two-fairfield-faculty-earn-prestigious-fulbright-awards.html
ECS and Child Lab faculty greet students at UConn Family Weekend
Anne Bladen and Marianne Legassey represented Early Childhood Specializations and Child Labs at UConn’s Fall 2024 Family Weekend. Anne and Marianne greeted students and their families attending Family Weekend events and shared information about applying for Early Childhood Specializations as well as the various ways for students to be involved at Child Labs.
Marlene Schwartz cited on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver recently cited a study that Professor Marlene Schwartz co-authored on the “Last Week Tonight” segment about school lunches. Watch the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YypArYDcjA