Christine Thiele Hoeffner, B.A. ’73, recently published a book, Finding Wisdom in the Jungle. The book explores legal rights granted at age 18 that may create challenges for teens as well as their parents, that are often not taught by schools or parents. The book intertwines a fictional adventure with factual information designed to inform, educate, and entertain.
Author: Janice Berriault
HDFS faculty & grad students will present at NCFR conference
Six HDFS faculty and nine HDFS graduate students will be giving presentations at the 2018 National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference in San Diego, on November 7-10. See attached list of those presenting.
Emily Simpson receives SRCD Dissertation Funding Award
Congratulations to HDFS doctoral student Emily Simpson, who received the Society for Research in Child Development Dissertation Funding Award. This award is given for research proposals that merit special recognition and display the strong potential to contribute to the field of child development.
Lisa Eaton receives two grants from the National Institutes of Health
Associate Professor Lisa Eaton recently received two new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She will serve as PI on an R31 from NIMH, Unified Approach to Address PrEP Cascade for BMSM. This project will involve the development of a stigma focused intervention to improve access to health care among marginalized populations.
She also will serve as Co-I on an R01 from NIDA, Estimating Mediation and Moderation Effects in HIV Incidence Prevention Trials. In this project they will conduct mediating and moderating analyses of HIV prevention trials.
Rebecca Puhl receives TOS Scientific Achievement Award
HDFS professor Rebecca Puhl is the recipient of the Obesity Society’s 2018 TOS Scientific Achievement Award, in recognition of her excellence in her research career.
HDFS faculty and grad students present at SRA conference
Nine HDFS graduate students and seven HDFS faculty gave 23 presentations at the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), which was held in Minneapolis, MN, April 11-15, 2018. See the list of the participants (UConn HDFS is indicated in bold and students are indicated with *).
Kate Dibble and Keith Bellizzi receive research award
Congratulations to graduate student Kate Dibble and Associate Professor Keith Bellizzi, who recently received a research award from the Connecticut Breast Health Initiative (CTBHI). The project is titled “Genetic counseling for BRCA1/2 mutations: Patient experiences, preferences and outcomes of counseling,” and seeks to examine preferences for individual-based or family centered genetic counseling as well as capturing patient reported outcome data on quality of life, overall health and perceived cancer risk following a positive genetic test result.
Keith serves as PI on the grant, but, in Keith’s words, “Kate developed the project to fund her dissertation research, with mentoring from me”.
Michael Ego featured on NBC Sports and Golf Channel
Professor Michael Ego was recently interviewed on the Golf Channel by Jimmy Roberts in a piece entitled, “How sports can help those with memory loss”.
Watch the video here.
Linda Halgunseth Co-Author in SRCD Latino Caucus Brief article
Associate Professor Linda Halgunseth co-authored an SRCD Latino Caucus Brief on separating children from their parents at the border. Read the article entitled, “The Science is Clear: Separating Families has Damaging Psychological and Health Consequences” in UConn Today.
HDFS faculty and grad student present their work at ISSBD conference
HDFS faculty and graduate students presented at the 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD). The event took place in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on July 15-19, 2018. Here is a list of the participants.