Vida Samuel was selected to the 2023 cohort at The Campaign School at Yale (https://www.tcsyale.org/) this summer. The Campaign School is a bipartisan, weeklong boot camp for women wishing to run for public office or others who want to manage women’s campaigns. CT’s Lt. Governor Bysiewicz and Johanna Hayes and Gabby Giffords are alumni of the program. The cohort will include 80 national and international participants – primarily women and four men who run women’s campaigns. Vida is also a recipient of one of Fairfield County’s Community Fund inaugural scholarships.

Congratulations to Rachel Tambling who will be officially be promoted to Professor, and Caitlin Lombardi who will officially be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of August 31st!

Professor Keith Bellizzi was featured in UConn Today discussing the problems with replacing human interactions with patient portals in health care settings. Read the article here.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was recently interviewed by The Associated Press about potential effects of new anti-obesity medications on societal weight stigma. Read the AP article here.

Rebecca was also interviewed by Fortune about new legislation proposed in NYC to ban weight discrimination. Read the article here.

The Washington Post recently interviewed Professor Rebecca Puhl about legislation to address weight discrimination. Read the Washington Post article here. Rebecca was also recently interviewed by National Geographic about weight stigma in family and healthcare settings. Read the National Geographic article here.

Congratulations to Terry Berthelot, who received a CLAS Teaching Enhancement Grant for her project to update HDFS 3530

Congratulations to Kari Adamsons, winner of the CLAS 2023 Faculty Mentoring of Graduate Students Award, and to Kim Gans, winner of the CLAS 2023 Faculty Mentoring of Faculty Award!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Na Zhang, a 2023 recipient of the Office of Undergraduate Research Mentorship Excellence Award in recognition of her outstanding mentorship of undergraduate researchers! Na will be recognized at the Stamford (April 18, 5:10) and/or Storrs (April 14, 5:30) Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibitions.

Associate Professor Laura Donorfio and others at UConn Waterbury hosted the campus’s first Pride Party. See the full story here.