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.

Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin was recently quoted in the NY Times in an article on cochlear implants.  This reference to her work in the NY Times is a great example of the impact her book (Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children) has made on the field and on the general public.

Professor Marlene Schwartz and Rebecca Boehm (postdoctoral fellow at the Rudd Center)’s research on how high school students are less likely to choose healthier options when juice is available as part of school lunch was featured in UConn Today.