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!
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.
Four HDFS faculty, four HDFS graduate students, and three HDFS undergraduate students plan to present their research at the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s 41st Annual Meeting in San Francisco in early April. See all of the information here.
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!
Julie Brisson (junior HDFS honors student) was selected as a 2020 University Scholar. Professor Preston Britner serves on her faculty advisory committee.
Graduate student Ellen Pudney was recently featured on the Full Bloom Project podcast about her study on the connections between weight stigma and parental weight talk. The Full Bloom Project was founded by two psychotherapists who work with adolescents with eating disorders to provide research-informed resources for parents who want to promote self-esteem and positive body image in their children at all ages. You can listen to the podcast through the Full Bloom Project website, or on iTunes.