UConn study led by Rebecca Puhl, Deputy Director of Rudd Center for Food Policy was published in “The Milbank Quarterly”, in an article entitled, People Have Kinder Attitudes Toward Workplace Weight Discrimination Than You Might Expect, in New York Magazine, December 2, 2015.
Author: Janice Berriault
Marlene Schwartz quoted in NPR article, January 22, 2016
Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and professor of Human Development and Family Studies is quoted in an article entitled Why Poverty May Be More Relevant Than Race For Childhood Obesity. NPR, January 22, 2016.
Tanika Simpson quoted in article in the New Yorker
HDFS doctoral student Tanika Simpson was quoted in an article entitled Baby Doe by Jill Lepore, in the February 1 issue of the New Yorker. The article explores the extreme challenges of the child protection system, and particularly in the state of Massachusetts over much of the past century.
Siembida accepted to NCI’s Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Prog
HDFS Graduate student Elizabeth Siembida has been accepted into the National Cancer Institute’s preeminent Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Program (CPFP) in Bethesda, MD. This highly competitive fellowship (accepting only 10% of applicants from across the country) is designed to provide a strong foundation for scientists and clinicians to train in the field of cancer prevention and control. As part of the program, Liz will be getting her MPH degree during her first year, followed by three years of mentored research with investigators and national leaders at the NCI or FDA.
Rebecca Puhl receives 2015 Research Excellence Program Award
Professor Rebecca Puhl, along with her Co-PI Dianne Quinn from the Department of Psychology, received a 2015 Research Excellence Program (REP) award. The primary goal of the REP is to provide seed funding to promote, support, and enhance the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of faculty at UConn, including (but not limited to) the strategic and emerging areas delineated in the Academic Plan and national and global priorities.
Dr. Puhl’s grant will examine factors that help or hurt weight loss maintenance, with a specific focus on the role of experienced and internalized stigma. Rebecca and Diane plan to use the results from this study as pilot evidence to apply for larger NIH funding.