Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick, Associate Professor Annamaria Csizmadia, Asstistant Professor Linda Halgunseth, and Professor Rebecca Puhl were awarded a Provost General Education Course Enhancement Grant for HDFS 3141: Developmental Approaches to Intergroup Relations and Victimization.
They will use this funding to make 3141 a Gen Ed course, in hope that it will be offered at all UConn campuses.
The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) was recently awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Professors Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, Co- Directors of the Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development (CHHD), will be doing the evaluation part of the project.
Below is the project description from OEC-
Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Innovation Award
The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood will partner with community experts, institutions of higher education, and professionals in early childhood development and related fields to develop and retain a highly skilled MIECHV-funded home visiting workforce through an innovative video-based intervention designed to address the particular challenges of working with complex, multi-need families. Using a randomized control trial design, two versions of the intervention will be implemented and evaluated.
Assistant Professor Caitlin Lombardi’s research was recently featured in a news article titled, New research suggests maternity leave is more important for mothers than it is for their kids. Read the online article from Quartz Media/Baby Balance.
Professor Michael Ego was recently interviewed on the Richard French Live talk show on the Regional News Network about the Legacy of WWII Japanese Internment Camps. Watch the interview.
Associate Professor Annamaria Csizmadia received funding for her proposal to the Provost’s Academic Plan Mini Grant Competition. Her project, “Promoting Active Learning through Blended and Flipped Classroom Design in HDFS Graduate Education: Revision of HDFS 5102: Early and Middle Childhood Development” will involve creating online resources for providing this graduate course in a blended/flipped/hybrid format. These resources will be valuable not only for Annamaria, but for anyone else in HDFS who might teach this course in the future.
Assistant Professor Ryan Watson’s project, “Transgender Erasure and Exclusion: Next Steps in the Discourses at the Nexus of Gender Identity, Policy and Health” received funding from the Public Discourse Project at UConn. Ryan will be editing a special issue for the International Journal of Transgenderism titled, “Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience”, and the organization of a group of stakeholders at UConn and the CT community that deal with transgender students to identity and enact the next steps to better the health and well-being of the population.
Annamaria Csizmadia, Alaina Brenick, and their students recently received SHARE awards. These awards recognize the work of our faculty and their engagement in training undergraduate students outside of the classroom.
Annamaria Csizmadia and her student, Thessiana Mesilus, will work on an online study of college students’ ethnic-racial socialization experiences and social-emotional and academic outcomes.
Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick, and her student, Monica Vise, were funded for a project titled, “An Examination of the Unique Social-Ecologies of Discriminatory Bullying Experienced by Latino Immigrant Youth.”
Professor Michael Ego’s recent trip to Scotland was featured in Guide & Gazette article. It highlights his time there visiting programs designed to use golfing memories and football action groups to help individuals with dementia.
Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth and HDFS graduate student Alex Reid presented their poster “Parenting Practices and Mexican Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment: The Role of Gender” at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Babies, Boys and Men of Color special topics meeting. The meeting was held October 6-9, 2016 in Tampa, FL.
On October 15 the work of eight HDFS graduate students and five HDFS faculty was presented in eight posters at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) meeting in Worcester, MA. Here is a listing of the participants and their presentations.
Emeritus Professor Jane Goldman presented her poster “Food Messages Presented in Media Designed for Young Children: Books and Television”, at the SRCD Technology and Media in Children’s Development special topics meeting in Irvine, CA on October 27-30, 2016.
At the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) annual meeting to be held on November 2-5, many UConn HDFS faculty and students will be traveling to Minneapolis to share their most recent research. Fourteen HDFS graduate students and ten HDFS faculty are authors on 20 presentations there this year. Here is a chronological list of these presentations.
An article about Deaf and sign language research at UConn is part of the current issue of the UConn Alumni magazine. Marie Coppola, Diane Lillo-Martin and HDFS Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin are all featured.