Professor Kim Gans’ poster, “Family Child Care Home Provider Attitudes and Practices Related to Feeding, Physical Activity and Screen Time of 2-5 Year Old Children in their Care,” won first place from the Early Care and Education Special Interest Group at the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition (ISBN) and Physical Activity conference in Victoria, Canada.

Professor Preston Britner was one of the featured speakers at a recent congressional briefing on family homelessness. Read the article from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).  It’s a great example of how the research we do has the potential to influence national policy.

Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick recently received a Human Rights Institute Faculty Research Grant for her project, Evaluations of school-based rights violations of transgender and gender non-conforming youth: A social ecological perspective.

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson was recently quoted in a USA Today article that provides a glossary of LGBTQ terminology.  Click here to read the article.

 

 

Professor Kim Gans recently received an InCHIP Office of Public Engagement seed grant.  The proposal, “Formative research to inform interventions for Latino parents of young children,” is in collaboration with Leslie Gell from Ready to Learn Providence.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ryan Watson and Professor Rebecca Puhl who were recently awarded a Research Excellence Program award from the Office of the Vice President of Research (OVPR) for a project entitled, An Intersectional Approach to Advance Understanding of School Achievement, Health Behaviors, and Family Experiences of LGBTQ Youth.

Also, Rebecca and Ryan have a newly launched project in collaboration with the Human Rights Campaign.  Read the blog entitled HRC Launches Major New Survey of LGBTQ Teens on the HRC website.

A new study finds that adolescents who are teased about their weight are more likely to have weight-related health consequences as adults. Read about Rebecca Puhl’s research in the article Weight-Based Teasing Has Long-Term Impact, in UConn Today.

Funds for Research at UConn Pay Big Dividends, is the article written by Professors Preston A. Britner and Michael M. Ego. The Op-Ed was published by various media such as, CT Mirror, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, UConn AAUP, and social media sites.

 

Emeritus Professor Ronald P. Rohner was a speaker at the fourth annual TEDx Talk at the University of Connecticut, held April 9, with this year’s theme being “Catalyst in Context.”  Ron beautifully summarized his 6 decades of research involving personal acceptance and rejection, and was quoted in a Daily Campus article.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth, on the 2017 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence: Early Career!

She is also one of two recipients of this year’s Society for Research in Child Development Latino Caucus Early Career Award!  To quote the selection committee, “The committee felt [her] research has advanced our knowledge of Latino families, especially [her] focus on ethnicity and parenting.”

Linda will receive this award in April at the SRCD Conference in Austin, TX.

Description of the Award:

The Early Career Research Award will honor an active Latino Caucus member who obtained a PhD within the past 10 years (degree conferred on/or after 2006). To be considered for the award, a nomination letter must detail why the candidate’s work exemplifies the mission of the Latino Caucus. In addition, the candidate should submit: a CV and two papers that serve as the foundation for the nomination. There will be a $1000 honorarium associated with this award.