HDFS graduate students, Gonul Kuscul and Samantha Lawrence, are among the first cohort of UConn students to receive summer fellowships from the Wood/Raith Living Trust. This was a very competitive internal award to support work related to gender identity. Congratulations Gonul and Sam!
HDFS Graduate Student, Kaleigh Ligus, received a Southern Gerontological Society (SGS) Student Scholarship Award to attend this conference where she presented her research.
Congratulations to Eminet Gurganus (HDFS graduate student), who just received a Social Networks and Health Fellowship. The fellowship will provide funding for her to attend the Social Networks and Health workshop sponsored by The Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC) and the Duke Population Research Institute, and will also match her with a mentor to work on a specific project together.
HDFS Graduate Student Alex Reid’s first author publication was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
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!
Hyeseong Kang, HDFS doctoral student, was selected as UConn’s Graduate Student Intern of the Year by the Center for Career Development.
In addition, Jennifer Dealy was awarded second runner-up in the same competition. Congratulations to both students!