Emertius Professor Steven Wisensale had an Opinion letter posted in the NY Times related to Coronavirus.

Professor Sara Harkness and Professor Charles Super’s research on Dutch and American child-rearing was recently quoted in an article by Kate Julian in the Atlantic entitled, “What happened to American childhood?”.

Professor Rebecca Puhl featured in Englemed Health News.

Professor Rebecca Puhl‘s research featured in MDEdge on understanding and combatting weight bias in teens, Huffington Post on differential workplace benefits of being overweight by gender, and in The Amed Post.

Assistant Professor in Residence Vida Samuel is featured on Babe With the Power Blog

 

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson is the recipient of the 2020 Early Career Research Award, Society of Research on Adolescence.  Although the conference was cancelled so we couldn’t share in the celebration together, this award is a huge honor only awarded every other year, and thus a large accomplishment.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was quoted in articles in the Daily Mail- Calling Overweight People Fat or Lazy Must Stop Because Stigma is ‘Blocking the Fight Against the Obesity Epidemic,’ Experts Say; and ABC Spain- El estigma: el principal enemigo de la obesidad

Professor Rebecca Puhl’s research on body acceptance was featured in: US News and World Report, The Great Body Acceptance Debate, and PressForm.

Two HDFS faculty received UConn AAUP Excellence Awards! Lecturer Meg Galante-DeAngelis received the Teaching Excellence (Career) award, and Associate Professor Ryan Watson received the Research and Creativity (Early Career) award. These are very prestigious university-wide awards and we are very proud of Meg and Ryan for these well-deserved acknowledgements of all of their hard work.

Professor Marlene Schwartz discusses research on the effects of changes in school lunch nutrition standards led to improved healthiness of school meals, featured in multiple outlets:  medscape.com and yahoo news