Professor Sara Harkness was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal, New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development.

Associate Professor Rachel Tambling is now the editor of Contemporary Family Therapy, which is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on family therapy, focusing on recent applied practice and developments in theory and research that is published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media.

Professor Marlene Schwartz quoted in China News Asia discussing added sugars, and in NBC News discussing US obesity epidemic.

Congratulations to Professor Preston Britner, the winner of the Edward C. Marth Mentorship Award.  The Marth Award was established by the UConn AAUP to recognize the leadership and dedication of Edward Marth, former Executive Director of the UConn AAUP Chapter, and to encourage and reward outstanding mentoring of graduate students by UConn Graduate Faculty  members.

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson was interviewed in a UConn CSCH (Collaboratory on School and Child Health) podcast in honor of World AIDS day.  On the podcast he discusses his research on disparities in access to HIV prevention tools among young men.  You can listen to that podcast and Part 2 of the CSCH podcast (December 16, 2019) with Ryan Watson on substance abuse among LGBTQ youth here.

 

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson was featured in a Hartford Courant podcast, discussing the implications of discussing politics and identities at the holiday dinner table. Listen to the podcast here.

Professor and Department Head Eva Lefkowitz, and Associate Professor Kari Adamsons were interviewed about the department’s recent name change to Human Development and Family Sciences.  Read the article in UConn Today.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) published an article about Assistant Professor Ryan Watson’s project on PrEP (among many other experiences) among Black & Latinx young MSM. Read the article here.

Abdul Khaleque was invited to contribute a chapter on Fathers’ neglect of children for the Sage Handbook of Domestic Violence to be edited by Todd K. Shackelford, and published by the Sage Publications Ltd in 2020.

Professor Rebecca Puhl was quoted in a UConn Today article, Weight Stigma Doesn’t Discriminate. Weight stigma is just as common among sexual minority adults as among heterosexual adults. Read the article.

Also, the podcast The Measure of Everyday Life recently interviewed Rebecca Puhl on the topic of communication about obesity, and the impact of weight stigma. Hear the podcast.