Newsmax quoted Professor Marlene Schwartz in their article “USDA Considers Banning Flavored Milk in Elementary, Middle Schools”. Read the article here.
Author: Janice Berriault
Rebecca Puhl quoted in Muscatine Journal
Muscatine Journal quoted Professor Rebecca Puhl in their article “Louisa County approves sliding fee scale for 2024”. Read the article here.
HDFS Child Labs visit the Benton Museum of Art
Children, professional staff and college students from the Child Labs, visited the Benton Museum of Art to participate in their Learn to Look program for introducing young children to the arts. The Child Labs and the Benton plan to continue this relationship.
Lexi Tomkunas awarded Wood/Raith Living Trust summer Fellowship
Congratulations to graduate student Lexi Tomkunas, who was awarded a 2023 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust summer fellowship.
Kim Gans receives grant from US Dept of Health and Human Services
Professor Kim Gans received a five-year, $3 million grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration For Community Living, Administration on Aging Innovations in Nutrition Programs and Services entitled “Evaluating the impact and sustainability of enhanced home-delivered meal program services on older adults’ health and well-being”. Kim is Co-PI of this grant along with Caitlin Caspi from Allied Health and Meg Grady, Director of Meals on Wheels Rhode Island. The goal of the project is to implement and test the effectiveness of an enhanced Home-Delivered Meals service delivery approach that includes community health worker interactions and supplemental healthy grocery bags to address diet quality, food and nutrition security, loneliness, and health-related quality of life for older adults.
Two studies by Rebecca Puhl cited in KVIA-TV article
KVIA-TV published a story entitled “Breaking down racial disparities in diabetes prevalence” cited two studies by Professor Rebecca Puhl. Read the story here.
Also, the Society for Human Resource Management published a story entitled “Laws, Policies Can Counter Weight Discrimination at Work” quoting Rebecca. Read the story here.
Kaleigh Ligus interviewed as recent graduate in UConn Today
Graduate student Kaleigh Ligus featured as one of the UConn students graduating this Spring. Read the article in UConn Today.
Marlene Schwartz receives Lectureship in Child Health Award
Professor Marlene Schwartz was recognized as the 2023 Michael & Susan Dell Center Lectureship in Child Health Award Recipient on Thursday. Her keynote presentation in Houston was titled “The Past, Present, and Future of School Nutrition”.
Kim Gans wins Faculty Career Advocate of the Year Award
Congratulations to Professor Kim Gans, winner of the Center for Career Development, Career Everywhere Award, as the Colleague-Nominated Faculty Career Advocate of the Year.
Exploring Conservation and Sustainability with Preschoolers
Experiential Learning: Anne Bladen is teaching HDFS 2142E: Exploring Conservation and Sustainability with Preschoolers for the first time this semester in Storrs. The class focuses on developing an ecological identity and how to engage young children in conservation and sustainability projects. Among other assignments, students complete 6 “Nature Immersions,” visit Mirror Lake to discuss Ecological Kinship and explore hands-on activities with different natural materials such as sunflowers, milkweed and pumpkins. 20 students, from a variety of departments and majors, spend 3 hours each week in the preschool classrooms at the Child Labs where they discover that it’s never too early to develop a relationship with nature.