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Rebecca Puhl receives 2015 Research Excellence Program Award

Posted on June 23, 2015August 30, 2019 by Janice Berriault

Professor Rebecca Puhl, along with her Co-PI Dianne Quinn from the Department of Psychology, received a 2015 Research Excellence Program (REP) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic Plan and national and global priorities.

Dr. Puhl’s grant will examine factors that help or hurt weight loss maintenance, with a specific focus on the role of experienced and internalized stigma. Rebecca and Diane plan to use the results from this study as pilot evidence to apply for larger NIH funding.