Students

Graduate student Khris-Ann Small receives funding award

Khris-Ann SmallCongratulations to HDFS graduate student Khris-Ann Small! Her project, “Black and Latino parents’ experiences with the Positive Parenting Program” was awarded funding from the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color, which is sponsored by the White House Council for Women and Girls, through UConn.

Jia Li Liu offered Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong

Jia Li LiuHDFS graduate student Jia Li Liu has been offered a Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong.  The grant is from July 2016 and March 2017.  Jia Li will be collaborating with Dr. Florrie Fei-Yin Ng in the Educational Psychology department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They will be working on a mixed method study that examines Chinese immigrant and native Hong Kong mother and teacher ethnotheories of shyness, related socialization practices, and shy children’s school adjustment.

Siembida accepted to NCI’s Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Prog

Elizabeth SiembidaHDFS Graduate student Elizabeth Siembida has been accepted into the National Cancer Institute’s preeminent Cancer Prevention and Control Fellowship Program (CPFP) in Bethesda, MD.  This highly competitive fellowship (accepting only 10% of applicants from across the country) is designed to provide a strong foundation for scientists and clinicians to train in the field of cancer prevention and control.  As part of the program, Liz will be getting her MPH degree during her first year, followed by three years of mentored research with investigators and national leaders at the NCI or FDA.