Rebecca Puhl was featured in several outlets discussing weight stigma:
Associate Professor Annamaria Csizmadia was featured in a Journal Inquirer article about social media and kids.
Seven HDFS faculty and six HDFS graduate students will be giving nine presentations at the Society for Behavioral Medicine in Phoenix this April. See a list of all the presentations here!
Graduate student Cali Salafia was awarded a Predoctoral Research Fellowship in Psycho-Oncology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to begin late May 2023. Congratulations Cali!
Congratulations to graduate student Lexi Tomkunas, who received funding from the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color through Africana Studies at UConn, for her project on Black girls and discipline through Florida schooling.
Associate Professor Kari Adamsons was interviewed for the Connecticut Public Radio show “Disrupted” about parenting, fathering, and why we need to move beyond the idea of the “traditional family.” Listen to the interview here (her bit is in the second half – the title refers to the person who was in the first half).
Graduate Student Rachael Farina was recently a co-leader in a discussion about inclusive sex and gender education for parents and caretakers at the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective.
Graduate Student Rachael Farina was featured in an article on Verywellmind.com entitled, Understanding and Managing Intrusive Thoughts In Romantic Relationships. Read the article here.
NBC News recently interviewed Professor Rebecca Puhl about weight stigma and new medications for obesity. Read the article here.
The UConn Child Labs hosted their first Lunar New Year Celebration, organized by Child Labs families and classroom teacher Heather Leeman. The event was attended by children and families enrolled in the Child Labs, Professional Teaching Staff and HDFS ECE students. Families led art and music activities and classroom teacher, Debbie Muro, led families through a child friendly yoga practice themed around the Lunar New Year. It was a great success and we hope to have many more opportunities for families to share their cultural practices with others in our community.