HDFS Professor Rebecca Puhl was quoted in recent Huff Post article, 10 Everyday Ways to Foster A Healthy Body Image in Your Child

Professor Kim Gans received a new grant from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/University of Rhode Island. The grant is titled ‘A Home-Based Video and Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Preschoolers Diet Quality and Parental Food Parenting Practices’.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin, recipient of the 2019 UConn-AAUP Teaching Excellence Award: Early Career. This award is a prestigious university-wide award for faculty with 3-6 years of service at UConn.

The podcast, Parsing Science recently interviewed Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin on the topic of whether “coming out” could be a useful analogy for the process of coming to identify as Deaf.  Watch the podcast here.

Associate Professor Alaina Brenick received a grant titled, Development and evaluation of a school-based intervention program to promote a sense of belonging, well-being, and achievement amongst culturally diverse students from the Antrag auf eine Kooperationsförderung, “KoUP 1” zur Förderung von Kooperationen mit Universitäten in den Schwerpunktregionen USA und Russland (Grant to Promote Cooperation with Universities in Priority Regions of the USA and Russia), Potsdam University.

The grant is a collaboration between Drs. Maja K. Schachner and Linda Juang of Potsdam University, Germany, Adriana Umaña-Taylor, Harvard University, USA, and Alaina Brenick, University of Connecticut, USA.  Congratulations Alaina!

 

Professor Rebecca Puhl and Assistant Professor Ryan Watson’s research on weight-based bullying of LGBTQ adolescents was featured in UConn Today. Read the article here.

A memorial event for Professor Michael Ego will take place at the Stamford Campus on Saturday, February 2, 2019, from 11-1pm.  Read the In Memoriam article here.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was interviewed by the Huffington Post for an article entitled, “Employers Are Discriminating Against Overweight Women — And It’s Totally Legal”.  Read the article here.