Graduate student Samantha Lawrence’s blog entitled, Challenging the stigma of community college students and alumni was posted on the NEAG School of Education website. Read the blog here.

HDFS undergraduate student Rachel Nadell, president of UConn’s Unified Theater chapter, was featured in an article about the STAAR program at UConn. Read the article here.

HDFS student Anneliese Lapides won the Aetna Writing in the Disciplines Award for a paper she wrote in Professor Keith Bellizzi’s HDFS 2004W course. The paper “Prenatal Health Care Inequities and Adverse Birth Outcomes for African American Women,” was one of two co-winners in the social sciences.  Congratulations Anneliese!

Rachel Ho, HDFS major in the Early Childhood program, recently published a letter to the editor that appeared in the Willimantic Chronicle.  She wrote the letter as part of her advocacy project in HDFS 3127. The article was also picked up by the CT Mirror as one of their choices for the CT Viewpoints column.

Research by Associate Professor Beth Russell, and graduate students Jennifer Dealy, and Morica Hutchinson, was recently presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2019 Biennial Meeting, and featured in UConn Today.

Congratulations to HDFS major Mar Amador, HDFS minor (and Public Health major) Sarah Soucy, and fellow teammate Julianne Longman (Marketing major).  Their team, Sunshine Initiative, was one of three finalists in the UConn Wellness Case Competition. There were 90 student entries to the competition. This team based their concept on the belief that UConn should provide more outdoor spaces for studying.

“My idea is for UConn to provide spaces outdoors ideal for studying or recreation, whether they be picnic tables by the lakes or more benches near our greens,” the idea said. “I think this will do a great deal for student’s mental health, community engagement and academic performance.”  They also discussed the desire to have swings on campus and the joy that swinging gives anyone, not just children.

It was such a pleasure to see these students present at the AOD (Alcohol and Other Drugs) Stakeholders Call to Action Conference. You can read more about the competition in the UConn Daily Campus.

Two students graduated from our doctoral program in Fall 2018 – Dr. Hyeseong Kang and Dr. Courtney Lincoln. Currently, Hyeseong is a Team Manager of the Research and Evaluation Team at Dream Start in Korea. Courtney is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University working with Dr. Matia Finn-Stevenson to evaluate the Mutt-i-gees Curriculum, a curriculum that teaches students social and emotional skills with the help of human-canine interaction. Congratulations to our graduates!

Congratulations to graduate students Eleanor Fisk and Yuan Zhang, who both received the IBACS Graduate Summer Fellowships from the CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.