In her role as Early Childhood Intern, undergraduate student Annika Anderson wrote an external donor-facing document for the International Rescue Committee that will be used internationally to disseminate the importance of early childhood development in crisis settings.

Congratulations to Deb Tomasino and Yuan Zhang, both HDFS doctoral students, who received 2020 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust summer fellowships!

Three HDFS students won our undergraduate awards. We are sorry we did not get to celebrate them in person, but hope you will reach out to these students and let them know how amazing they are!

• Outstanding Senior in HDFS: Annika Anderson
• Outstanding Undergraduate Involvement in HDFS Research: Phillipia Pottinger
• Outstanding Service to the Field of HDFS: Taylor Wheeler

Doctoral student Samantha Lawrence was selected for the 2020 graduate student Mentorship Excellence Award, from the Office of Undergraduate Research, in recognition of her outstanding mentorship of undergraduate researchers.

Doctoral student Samantha Lawrence is the recipient of the UConn, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) 2020-2021 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.

Congratulations to Samantha Lawrence, recipient of the 2020 University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. This is a university-wide award as well and recognizes Sam’s amazing contributions in the HDFS classroom.

Doctoral student Yuan Zhang is the 2020 recipient of the President’s Commitment to Community Initiative award, in the amount of $1000, for her Research Proposal “The Relation Between Acculturation and Mental Health of International Students.”

During the Fall 2019 semester, Dr. Laura Donorfio’s undergraduate Adulthood & Aging students have been interviewing OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) members about the meaning of lifelong learning as part of the “An OLLI Minute” podcast project.  Click here to listen!