Ellen Pudney, HDFS doctoral student, won second place poster at the InCHIP Poster Competition for her poster, “A mixed methods analysis examining differential patterns of long-term distress from weight stigma.”  HDFS Professor Rebecca Puhl was a co-author.

Graduate student Debra Fortune Tomasino received the LeadingAge Student Full Scholarship to attend the Annual Meeting & EXPO in San Diego on October 26-30, 2019.

Congratulations to Kate Dibble (current doctoral student), who was recently accepted for a postdoctoral fellowship into Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in cancer epidemiology, prevention, and control starting in September 2020.

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.