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
Professor Rebecca Puhl’s research on obesity stigma was covered by UConn Today.
Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth was a finalist for the UConn Spirit Award in Inclusive Excellence, as highlighted in UConn Today.
Four HDFS faculty, four HDFS graduate students, and three HDFS undergraduate students plan to present their research at the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s 41st Annual Meeting in San Francisco in early April. See all of the information here.
Emeritus Professor Ronald Rohner received the Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, February 28, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.
Assistant Professor Ryan Watson was featured in The Daily Campus article, “Community support leads to decrease in substance abuse of LGBTQ youth“.
Professor and Department Head Eva Lefkowitz quoted in Teen Vogue in a column about teens who have never kissed before. Read the article.
Associate Professor Beth Russell and colleagues partnering with Waterbury police on a project designed to connect overdose survivors to behavioral health clinicians immediately after overdose, featured in UConn Today.