Professor Rebecca Puhl was featured in the September 29th New York Times article entitled 400-Pound Hacker? Trump Comments Fuel Dialogue on Fat-Shaming. On the same day, Professor Puhl provided CNN with some valid statistics in their article called Weight bias is bigger problem than you may think, experts say.
On October 1st New York Times posted an article entitled The Shame of Fat Shaming which featured Professor Puhl’s comments.
Check out this NY Times article on what obese patients should ask their doctors. Professor Rebecca Puhl was heavily featured in this article, highlighting the outreach efforts of Rebecca and the Rudd Center. The article was also featured in UConn Today.
An article about Deaf and sign language research at UConn is part of the current issue of the UConn Alumni magazine. Marie Coppola, Diane Lillo-Martin and HDFS Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin are all featured.
Professor Kim Gans recently had a grant funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The grant is titled Physical Activity in Latino Men Through Tailoring: Hombres Saludables and is for three years, beginning in September.
Assistant Professor Beth Russell recently had a grant funded by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). This grant is for the Vernon Prevention Partnership, a longitudinal effort to prevent substance use in Vernon public schools. Beth will serve as PI of the program evaluation sub-award.
Associate Professor Keith Bellizzi has been invited to serve as Special Advisor to the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Outcomes Research Branch (ORB), for the 2016/2017 year. He will be spending 30% of his time working for NCI. They chose Keith for his expertise in gerontology, patient outcomes research, and behavioral medicine, as they expand their research portfolio among the growing population of older patients and survivors who have multiple chronic conditions. This is a great opportunity for Keith, and also helps the department’s visibility at NIH and as an important place for gerontology research.
Assistant Professor Laura Mauldin, received Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association for her 2016 book, Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children. Published by the University of Minnesota Press (2016).
Made to Hear explores the long-term, multi-year undertaking of cochlear implantation and the experiences of mothers of deaf children as they navigate the health care system and professionals advocating implantation. Mauldin expertly documents that ways in which the medical infrastructure and language encourage compliance by mothers and children with medical technology and a medicalized view of deafness. This book deserves great praise in particular for its strong methodological and theoretical framework, highly informed and well-balanced analysis, and its contributions to a core issue in the field of disability.
Associate Professor Lisa Eaton recently had a project, Unified Intervention to Impact HIV Care Continuum, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is a large, five-year study funded by NIDA and in collaboration with Seth Kalichman.
Ryan Watson recently interviewed with the press and radio about his article entitled, “Trends and disparities in disordered eating among heterosexual and sexual minority adolescents” which was published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Read the press release by the University of British Columbia.
Professor Rebecca Puhl is featured in a New York Times article entitled, Parents Should Avoid Comments on a Child’s Weight, June 16, 2016.