Professor Rebecca Puhl was featured in a greatist.com health article for discussing weight stigma in the medical profession.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was featured on CNBC video. Watch the video to learn how weight discrimination in employment affects high-weight workers and why there’s no legislation to prevent it.

Professor Charles Super was appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal, New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development.

Senior Scientist Abdul Khaleque was interviewed by Kimberly Wolf, the founder of Girlmentum, about father-daughter relationships. The interview will be included in Kimberly Wolf’s new book on father-daughter communication in adolescence to be published by Penguin Publishing in the spring of 2021.

Professor Sara Harkness was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal, New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development.

Associate Professor Rachel Tambling is now the editor of Contemporary Family Therapy, which is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on family therapy, focusing on recent applied practice and developments in theory and research that is published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media.

Professor Marlene Schwartz quoted in China News Asia discussing added sugars, and in NBC News discussing US obesity epidemic.

Congratulations to Professor Preston Britner, the winner of the Edward C. Marth Mentorship Award.  The Marth Award was established by the UConn AAUP to recognize the leadership and dedication of Edward Marth, former Executive Director of the UConn AAUP Chapter, and to encourage and reward outstanding mentoring of graduate students by UConn Graduate Faculty  members.