Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured in UConn Today for her work developing a toolkit to support food banks and pantries to measure nutritional quality (read the article here). Marlene was also featured in Bakery and snacks.com in an article, Some of the Science Behind Our Snacking Habit (read the article here).
Faculty
Ronald Rohner granted status of Fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association
In recognition of significant and sustained contributions to the science of psychology, the Board of Directors of the Eastern Psychological Association has granted Ronald P. Rohner the status of Fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association.
Marlene Schwartz was featured on Food Issues
Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured on Food Issues with Julie Relevant, Episode 001: Feeding Kids in 2021
HDFS faculty & grad students will present at SRCD conference
14 HDFS faculty and 15 HDFS graduate students will be giving 26 presentations at the SRCD Virtual conference, April 7 – 9. Topics include parental control and Chinese adolescent’s depression; anti-racist interventions with Palestinian/Jewish Israeli individuals; avoiding ethnocentrism in research; math skill development in early childhood; and more than 10 presentations related to child, adolescent, college student, and parent well-being during COVID-19. Find a list of all of the exciting talks and posters here
Jolaade Kalinowski featured in UConn Today
Assistant Professor Jolaade Kalinowski was featured in UConn Today for her important research on Health Disparities for Black women. Read the article here.
Marlene Schwartz’s article featured in multiple newspapers
Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured in US News & World Report, The Conversation, and many other newspapers in a recent story, How Connecticut Schools Have Gotten Lunch to Kids Who Need it. Read her story in The Conversation.
Isabella Otoka, Aetna Writing winner in the Disciplines Awards
A research paper that undergraduate student Isabella Otoka wrote for HDFS 2004W in Spring, 2020, Panic Disorder and Parent Child Communication was selected as the winner of the Aetna Writing in the Disciplines Awards in the social sciences division. Congratulations!
Professor Edna Brown was the instructor, and graduate student Mackenzie Wink was the TA who nominated Isabella. The Aetna Writing in the Disciplines Awards recognize exemplary academic writing by undergraduate students across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional schools. Each of three winners will receive $200, thanks to funding from the Aetna Chair of Writing Endowment.
Terry Berthelot gives presentation for Medicare Hospice Benefit
Assistant Professor in Residence Terry Berthelot, gave a virtual presentation for the Center for Learning in Retirement, Medicare Hospice Benefit, March 11, 2021.
Rebecca Puhl recipient of 2021 Obesity Canada Distinguished Lecturer’s Award
Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Puhl, the recipient of the 2021 Obesity Canada Distinguished Lecturer’s Award – a national award in Canada which she will be awarded in May 2021. As part of the award, she will be giving the award lecture at the 7th national Canadian Obesity Summit.
Ronald Rohner’s IPARTheory now part of psychology curriculum
Emeritus Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance & Rejection, Ronald P. Rohner received an announcement that Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPARTheory) is now part of the psychology graduation curriculum at the Instituto Universitario da Maia (ISMAI), an institute of higher education in Portugal. The theory is one of the required subjects in the Educational Psychology curricular unit for training psychologists.