Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin, received Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association for her 2016 book, Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children. Published by the University of Minnesota Press (2016).
Made to Hear explores the long-term, multi-year undertaking of cochlear implantation and the experiences of mothers of deaf children as they navigate the health care system and professionals advocating implantation. Mauldin expertly documents that ways in which the medical infrastructure and language encourage compliance by mothers and children with medical technology and a medicalized view of deafness. This book deserves great praise in particular for its strong methodological and theoretical framework, highly informed and well-balanced analysis, and its contributions to a core issue in the field of disability.
Associate Professor Lisa Eaton recently had a project, Unified Intervention to Impact HIV Care Continuum, funded by the 
Ryan Watson recently interviewed with the press and radio about his article entitled, “Trends and disparities in disordered eating among heterosexual and sexual minority adolescents” which was published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Read the press release by the University of British Columbia.
The Office of the Vice President for Research announced the recipients of the Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) Awards for Fall 2016. Assistant Professors Alaina Brenick and Linda Halgunseth were among the awardees.
LindaHalgunseth’s award is for the study of the “Examining the Effectiveness of Immigrant Parents’ Responses to their Children’s Bullying Experiences in Middle School.”
Professor Rebecca Puhl is featured in a New York Times article entitled, Parents Should Avoid Comments on a Child’s Weight, June 16, 2016.
HDFS Graduate student Carmen Britton’s Fulbright grant is from November 2016 thru August 2017. She will partner with the Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to conduct qualitative research relating to the experiences of people with disabilities in Community Based Rehabilitation.
HDFS graduate student Jia Li Liu has been offered a Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong. The grant is from July 2016 and March 2017. Jia Li will be collaborating with Dr. Florrie Fei-Yin Ng in the Educational Psychology department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They will be working on a mixed method study that examines Chinese immigrant and native Hong Kong mother and teacher ethnotheories of shyness, related socialization practices, and shy children’s school adjustment.
Each year, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honors its outstanding faculty and staff with a range of awards. Carla Gomez was awarded the Staff Excellence Award at the CLAS College-wide Celebration on April 5th.