Congratulations to graduate student Joy Heafner, who is the 2017 Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective winner from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). According to NCFR, “This award recognizes a graduate student/new professional who has demonstrated excellence in research and potential contribution to feminist scholarship.”
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Blog by Tanika Simpson published on GCCI website
Graduate student Tanika Simpson has written a blog entitled, The Gift of Gab: 10 Ways to Inspire Classroom Discussion, as part of the college instruction course. The post discusses how to encourage classroom discussion, which is likely something we all struggle with at times. Read her blog on the GCCI website!
HDFS faculty and their students receive SHARE awards
Annamaria Csizmadia, Alaina Brenick, and their students recently received SHARE awards. These awards recognize the work of our faculty and their engagement in training undergraduate students outside of the classroom.
Annamaria Csizmadia and her student, Thessiana Mesilus, will work on an online study of college students’ ethnic-racial socialization experiences and social-emotional and academic outcomes.
Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick, and her student, Monica Vise, were funded for a project titled, “An Examination of the Unique Social-Ecologies of Discriminatory Bullying Experienced by Latino Immigrant Youth.”
Samantha Guarneri, HDFS Undergrad winner of “Aetna Writing in the Disciplines”
HDFS faculty and grad students present at national conferences
Assistant Professor Linda Halgunseth and HDFS graduate student Alex Reid presented their poster “Parenting Practices and Mexican Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment: The Role of Gender” at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Babies, Boys and Men of Color special topics meeting. The meeting was held October 6-9, 2016 in Tampa, FL.
On October 15 the work of eight HDFS graduate students and five HDFS faculty was presented in eight posters at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) meeting in Worcester, MA. Here is a listing of the participants and their presentations.
Emeritus Professor Jane Goldman presented her poster “Food Messages Presented in Media Designed for Young Children: Books and Television”, at the SRCD Technology and Media in Children’s Development special topics meeting in Irvine, CA on October 27-30, 2016.
At the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) annual meeting to be held on November 2-5, many UConn HDFS faculty and students will be traveling to Minneapolis to share their most recent research. Fourteen HDFS graduate students and ten HDFS faculty are authors on 20 presentations there this year. Here is a chronological list of these presentations.
Graduate student Khris-Ann Small receives funding award
Congratulations 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.
Honors student, Samantha Lawrence featured in CLAS article
HDFS honors student Samantha Lawrence was featured in a CLAS article entitled, A Sensitive Soul: The Psychology of Bullying. This article describes the great engagement of Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick in undergraduate education, and the excellent research opportunities that have been available to Samantha.
C. Britton offered Fulbright Research Grant to study in Sri Lanka
HDFS Graduate student Carmen Britton’s Fulbright grant is from November 2016 thru August 2017. She will partner with the Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to conduct qualitative research relating to the experiences of people with disabilities in Community Based Rehabilitation.
Jia Li Liu offered Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong
HDFS 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.
Tanika Simpson quoted in article in the New Yorker
HDFS doctoral student Tanika Simpson was quoted in an article entitled Baby Doe by Jill Lepore, in the February 1 issue of the New Yorker. The article explores the extreme challenges of the child protection system, and particularly in the state of Massachusetts over much of the past century.