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.
Associate Professor Lisa Eaton’s recent profile and her program of research were featured in UConn Today. Read the article entitled, “Meet the Researcher: Lisa Eaton, Human Development and Family Studies“.
Associate Professor Rachel Tambling and doctoral candidate Thomas Bischoff’s research was featured in an article entitled, “Why Clients Stop Going to Therapy” in UConn Today, and presented at the National Council on Family Relations Conference 2018. Read the article.
Lecturer Terry Bethelot’s recent article entitled “Winning Against a Stacked Deck: Medicare Hospital Discharge Appeal” was published in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys News. Read the article.
Six HDFS faculty and nine HDFS graduate students will be giving presentations at the 2018 National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Annual Conference in San Diego, on November 7-10.
Associate Professor Lisa Eaton recently received two new grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She will serve as PI on an R31 from NIMH, Unified Approach to Address PrEP Cascade for BMSM. This project will involve the development of a stigma focused intervention to improve access to health care among marginalized populations.
She also will serve as Co-I on an R01 from NIDA, Estimating Mediation and Moderation Effects in HIV Incidence Prevention Trials. In this project they will conduct mediating and moderating analyses of HIV prevention trials.
HDFS professor Rebecca Puhl is the recipient of the Obesity Society’s 2018 TOS Scientific Achievement Award, in recognition of her excellence in her research career.
Nine HDFS graduate students and seven HDFS faculty gave 23 presentations at the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), which was held in Minneapolis, MN, April 11-15, 2018. See the list of the participants (UConn HDFS is indicated in bold and students are indicated with *).
Congratulations to graduate student Kate Dibble and Associate Professor Keith Bellizzi, who recently received a research award from the Connecticut Breast Health Initiative (CTBHI). The project is titled “Genetic counseling for BRCA1/2 mutations: Patient experiences, preferences and outcomes of counseling,” and seeks to examine preferences for individual-based or family centered genetic counseling as well as capturing patient reported outcome data on quality of life, overall health and perceived cancer risk following a positive genetic test result.
Keith serves as PI on the grant, but, in Keith’s words, “Kate developed the project to fund her dissertation research, with mentoring from me”.
Professor Michael Ego was recently interviewed on the Golf Channel by Jimmy Roberts in a piece entitled, “How sports can help those with memory loss”.
Watch the video here https://www.golfchannel.com/video/roberts-how-sports-can-help-those-memory-loss/