Doctoral student Jia Li Liu has been awarded the Calvin J. Li postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, to begin in fall 2018.  The fellowship supports research about the unique social challenges facing Asian American children. The position also includes teaching in the Asian American Studies Program at The University of Maryland and developing community-based lectures and parenting workshops.  Jia Li is currently writing up her dissertation, based on research about children’s shyness, that she carried out in Hong Kong last year as a Fulbright Fellow.  She has also earned a Graduate Certificate in Culture, Health and Human Development through coursework and research in China.

Congratulations to Sumbleen Ali, the second HDFS graduate student this year to receive a summer fellowship from the CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS). You can learn more about the fellowship, and about IBACS, here.

HDFS Graduate student Timothy McKay received a summer fellowship from the CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS).  You can learn more about the fellowship, and about IBACS, here: https://ibacs.uconn.edu/resources/graduate-fellowships/

HDFS students Emily Mendoza and Caira Ward, and their faculty mentors, Alaina Brenick and Edna Brown, are two of the 13 student-faculty teams to receive Spring 2018 SHARE awards to support undergraduate research apprenticeships.  Congratulations Emily and Caira!

 

Project Title: Diverse Experiences of and Evaluations about Sexting and Sexting Victimization
Student Apprentice: Emily Mendoza, Human Development and Family Studies
Faculty Mentor: Alaina Brenick, Human Development and Family Studies
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

 

 

 

Project Title: African American Breast Cancer Survivors
Student Apprentice: Caira Ward, Human Development and Family Studies, Africana Studies
Faculty Mentor: Edna Brown, Human Development and Family Studies

Congratulations to HDFS doctoral students Carmen Britton, Courtney Lincoln, and Hyeseong Kang, who were each awarded a Spring 2018 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School!

Congratulations to HDFS graduate student Kevin Hynes, the recipient of a 2017-2018 AAMFT/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship!

Each year, the AAMFT/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program awards Fellowships to a select pool of talented minority MFT doctoral students recognized for their developing competence in and demonstrated commitment to conduct research and provide service to ethnic minority and underserved populations. This year, Kevin Hynes, a doctoral student in the HDFS Department’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program, was selected to receive one of these prestigious Fellowships.

Funded by a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the AAMFT/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program was created to support the training of practitioners and practitioner/researchers in culturally competent mental health and substance abuse services, treatment, prevention, and research. The objective of the Fellowship Program is to expand the delivery of culturally competent mental health and substance abuse services to underserved minority populations and to increase the number of doctoral level culturally competent minority Marriage and Family Therapists.

Because the Fellowship is both a scholarship and a professional training appointment, Kevin joins a community of MFT students and professionals who will participate in myriad opportunities to advance their knowledge and skills in the areas of cultural competence, mental health, and substance abuse by learning from, collaborating with, and being mentored by multicultural leaders across several professions. Through these experiences, Kevin will build a lifetime network of professional associations with MFTs who are dedicated to assisting underserved minorities and advancing culturally relevant contributions to the social and behavioral sciences.

Check out this blog post on flipped classrooms by HDFS staff member Lindsey Danburg. Lindsey wrote it as part of her college instruction course for the Graduate Certificate in College Instruction.