Associate Professor Beth Russell’s research with colleagues in Social Work and Psychology, targeting substance abuse through Emotion Regulation interventions, was featured in UConn Today

Assistant Professor Maria LaRusso presented to Connecticut State legislators on Adolescent Mental Health and the Impact of School Start Times in a legislative session hosted by state representative Jillian Gilchrest and broadcast on CT-N on October 1st.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was quoted in an article in US News and World Report. Read the article here.

Professor Rebecca Puhl discusses how to reduce fat shaming in the Metro Daily News.

Professor and Department Head Eva Lefkowitz and former students will be honored in Toronto this week for their article, which was selected by the Sexuality Topic Network of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood as the winner of the 2018 Best Research Article award for research advancing scholarship on sex and sexuality among emerging adults.  Read the article here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jora.12422 

Ronald Rohner, Professor Emeritus, and Director of the Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, was appointed to the National Child Policy Center’s committee on psychological maltreatment.

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson received his Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award at the InCHIP Annual Meeting, which was held on September 26, 2019.

Professor Charles Super’s work on the cultural shaping of infant motor development was presented in Science News.

Professor Marlene Schwartz was quoted in a Huffington Post article that discusses U.S. food policy and public schools, and in CT Mirror, concerning a socioeconomic divide in wellness policies in CT schools.