Congratulations to Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth, on the 2017 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence: Early Career!

She is also one of two recipients of this year’s Society for Research in Child Development Latino Caucus Early Career Award!  To quote the selection committee, “The committee felt [her] research has advanced our knowledge of Latino families, especially [her] focus on ethnicity and parenting.”

Linda will receive this award in April at the SRCD Conference in Austin, TX.

Description of the Award:

The Early Career Research Award will honor an active Latino Caucus member who obtained a PhD within the past 10 years (degree conferred on/or after 2006). To be considered for the award, a nomination letter must detail why the candidate’s work exemplifies the mission of the Latino Caucus. In addition, the candidate should submit: a CV and two papers that serve as the foundation for the nomination. There will be a $1000 honorarium associated with this award.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was interviewed by CBS News for an article entitled, Fat shaming can lead to a host of health problems.

Also, a study Rebecca recently published was highlighted in UConn Today.  See the article here.

A new study by Professor Marlene Schwartz on reducing sales of sugary drinks in Maryland was highlighted on Monday on CNN.  Read the article here.

Assistant Professor Ryan J. Watson was featured in the UConn student paper (Daily Campus) for a special Valentines Day Q&A .

Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick was recently awarded her PI’ed grant from University of Potsdam, Kooperationsförderung für die USA und Russland, with Co-Investigator Maja K. Schacher (University of Potsdam), The Development of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom: Understanding Context, Child Characteristics, and Consequences. The project will fund their travel to NY to meet around the International Academy for Intercultural Research Biennial Conference.  Alaina and Maja will meet with a number of European collaborators (Dr. Karen Phalet, Co-PI) as well as a team of researchers at CUNY Grad Center Race, Ethnicity, and Migration program in preparation of a grant proposal for the EU’s Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

The award will also fund Alaina’s travel to the University of Potsdam to conduct site visits for an upcoming project, carry-out analyses from a previous project, Social Integration and Socio-Emotional Adjustment of Early-Adolescent Turkish Immigrants in Culturally Diverse Schools in Germany, and to work on an invited book chapter, “The Development of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom: Understanding Context, Child Characteristics, and Consequences, to appear in an edited volume on children and prejudice.

Professor Jane Goldman has some recently published work that analyses the portrayal of health and unhealthy food in children’s picture books. You can read about it at UConn Today.