Congratulations to Joan Fenton (HDFS alum), who, together with her husband, Richard Fenton, are this year’s recipients of the James C. Fallon Distinguished Service Award, the highest award given by the Brockport, NY Board of Education for their service to the district, the students, the community and the college. Learn more about their careers and […]

Professor Keith Bellizzi was featured in UConn Today in an article about his work on a new study of communication and intimacy among couples facing metastatic breast cancer: https://today.uconn.edu/2024/10/study-investigates-communication-intimacy-among-couples-facing-metastatic-breast-cancer/

Four HDFS faculty and three graduate students will be giving five presentations at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) conference later this month in Bellevue, Washington. Learn about them here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ubx8DQazSgr21R425puu1h0cVvJE1gpe_EbHBssoEDM/edit?usp=sharing

Undergraduate student Katherine Gutierrez, a sophomore, participated in the Fall Frontiers Poster Exhibition on October 23rd, as part of the SHARE program, which supports undergraduate research projects in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. SHARE is designed especially for students in the earlier stages of their college careers as a means of introducing students to […]

UConn Child Development Labs welcomed members of UConn Jump Start to participate in Read for the Record 2024. The Jumpstart members read the picture book Piper Chen Sings by Phillipa Soo to the preschoolers at Child Labs and engaged the children in conversation about the book. From the Read for the Record website: Jumpstart’s Read […]

Colleen K. Vesely, Ph.D. completed her M.A. at UConn in HDFS in 2006. She then earned a doctorate in Family Science at the University of Maryland. At UConn, Colleen worked closely with Sara Harkness and Charlie Super on the Baby Study. She gained hands-on experience conducting research with families with young children and developed a depth […]

Sumin Kim is a first-year PhD student working with Dr. Annamaria Csizmadia, specializing in Diversity and Culture. Originally from Seoul, Korea, Sumin lived in the Netherlands, Dubai, and Germany before moving to the United States. Her diverse international experiences have significantly shaped her research interests in multicultural identities and the psychological complexities faced by children […]

Beth was promoted to Professor effective August, 2024! Beth Russell has spent 20 years studying psychological distress and how people manage it. Her studies examine how individuals and families respond to stress across a range of typical life events (like the transition to parenthood) and atypical experiences (caregiving in the context of chronic health conditions). […]

Sarah Rendón-García collaborated and is featured in the short-form documentary “Invisible Wounds: Unveiling Migration Trauma.” Directed by Oscar Guerra, an Associate Professor of Film and Video Production at UConn, this documentary recently premiered on PBS. You can watch it here (https://www.pbs.org/video/invisible-wounds-6zwok9/).

Check out the HDFS faculty and graduate students highlighted in the InCHIP Annual report: Rachel Chazan Cohen, Raymond Moody, Ryan Watson, Lisa Eaton, *Peter McCauley, and Keith Bellizzi.