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.
Author: Janice Berriault
Annamaria Csizmadia funded for proposal to the Provost’s Academic Plan
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.
Ryan Watson receives funding from the Public Discourse Project
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.
HDFS faculty and their students receive SHARE awards
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.”
Michael Ego and his work featured in Guide & Gazette article
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.
HDFS faculty and grad students present at national conferences
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.
Laura Mauldin featured in UConn Alumni magazine
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.Kim Gans grant funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Professor Kim Gans recently had a grant funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The grant is titled Physical Activity in Latino Men Through Tailoring: Hombres Saludables and is for three years, beginning in September.
Beth Russell’s grant funded by the DMHAS
Assistant Professor Beth Russell recently had a grant funded by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). This grant is for the Vernon Prevention Partnership, a longitudinal effort to prevent substance use in Vernon public schools. Beth will serve as PI of the program evaluation sub-award.
Keith Bellizzi- Special Advisor to NCI Outcomes Research Branch
Associate Professor Keith Bellizzi has been invited to serve as Special Advisor to the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Outcomes Research Branch (ORB), for the 2016/2017 year. He will be spending 30% of his time working for NCI. They chose Keith for his expertise in gerontology, patient outcomes research, and behavioral medicine, as they expand their research portfolio among the growing population of older patients and survivors who have multiple chronic conditions. This is a great opportunity for Keith, and also helps the department’s visibility at NIH and as an important place for gerontology research.