Andrea (Bouchard) Corcoran earned her Bachelor of Arts in (HDFS) with minors in Gerontology and Sociology from UConn in 2013. Growing up, Andrea had a close relationship with her grandparents, who were a big influence in her life. Since graduating, Andrea has built a career advocating for the rights and wellbeing of older adults. While […]

Annamaria Csizmadia is a scholar-teacher of cultural diversity. She has spent the past two decades studying how culturally relevant and group-specific factors shape developmental processes among monoracial and Multiracial (including immigrant) youth of color. She investigates how youth of color develop a positive ethnic-racial identity and the role that families play in helping youth navigate […]

Graduate student Rui Wu received the 2025 Arnold and Sandra Dashefsky Student Award for Excellence. This award is given to a student who  demonstrates outstanding academic achievement in one of the following topics: American Jewry, prejudice discrimination, racism, or anti-semitism. Congratulations Rui!

Eva was awarded the 2025 Academic Leadership Award from CLAS! This award “recognizes exemplary work in leadership by an individual who oversees a CLAS department, school, center, institute, or program.” You can find more information about the award here. Congratulations Eva!!

Congratulations to Kari Adamsons and Ronald Sabatelli, whose 2025 book, Family Interaction: Multigenerational and Developmental Perspectives on Diversity Within and Between Families, recently received the 2025 McGuffey Longevity Award from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.

Congratulations to *Madeline Hebert and Peter McCauley, who both received the 2025 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kevin Ferreira Van Leer, who received a Spencer Vision Grant entitled: Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions from Enrolling to Serving: Collaborative Examination of Equitable Practices and Policies in the California State University System!

Congratulations to alumni Luke Russell (BA ’10), newly elected Chair-elect of the NCFR Research and Theory Section.

Congratulations to *Nate Stekler, newly elected Students and New Professionals Representative of the NCFR Research and Theory Section.

Professor Keith Bellizzi and colleagues were featured in an article about their recent study demonstrating that families make up a lot of the users of the #childhoodcancer hashtag on X-Twitter https://today.uconn.edu/2025/03/uconn-study-of-hashtag-childhoodcancer-shows-families-leading-the-conversation/