Congratulations to Kari Adamsons and Ronald Sabatelli, whose 2025 book, Family Interaction: Multigenerational and Developmental Perspectives on Diversity Within and Between Families, recently received the 2025 McGuffey Longevity Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.
Congratulations to *Madeline Hebert and Peter McCauley, who both received the 2025 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship!
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kevin Ferreira Van Leer, who received a Spencer Vision Grant entitled: Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions from Enrolling to Serving: Collaborative Examination of Equitable Practices and Policies in the California State University System!
Congratulations to alumni Luke Russell (BA ’10), newly elected Chair-elect of the NCFR Research and Theory Section.
Congratulations to *Nate Stekler, newly elected Students and New Professionals Representative of the NCFR Research and Theory Section.
Professor Keith Bellizzi and colleagues were featured in an article about their recent study demonstrating that families make up a lot of the users of the #childhoodcancer hashtag on X-Twitter https://today.uconn.edu/2025/03/uconn-study-of-hashtag-childhoodcancer-shows-families-leading-the-conversation/
UConn Today featured undergraduate researcher *Kayvona Brown who is currently enrolled in the HDFS Research Practicum with Assistant Professor Marketa Burnett exploring Black caregivers’ hopes and dreams for their daughters. Link: https://today.uconn.edu/2025/03/meet-the-undergraduate-researcher-kayvona-brown-clas/#
Congratulations to Tracy Walters (PhD ’23) who recently accepted a new position as Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of the Applied Psychology Data Analytics Master’s program at Marquette University to start this Fall!
Marianne Legassey presented a training workshop to community childcare providers at the EASTCONN Annual Infant Toddler conference on March 7th. Marianne presented Trauma Informed Practices in Early Childhood. Christine Perkins, Child Labs Master Toddler Teacher and Kelly Clark, Child Labs Master Infant Teacher, presented a workshop at the conference. The workshop, cycle of Intentional Teaching for Sensory-Based Play with Infants and Toddlers, provided participants (infant and toddler center based teachers) opportunities to explore and create materials for their classrooms along with learning about intentional interactions with infants and toddlers.
Eight HDFS faculty and four HDFS graduate students will be presenting 12 posters at the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) in San Francisco, CA at the end of March! See them all here