Graduate student Rachael Farina was elected as the board treasurer for the Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CTAMFT). Her term will begin in January of 2022.

Professor Kim Gans was interviewed for and quoted in a September 23 Vice News article about How to Fix One of the Worst Healthy Food ‘Deserts’ in America. Read the article here.

Associate Professor Ryan Watson was featured in an article about how schools are banning pride flags as political speech. Read the article here.

Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured in an article for her editorial on whether Americans are eating more junk food. Read the article here.

  Samantha graduated from UConn in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS). As an undergraduate student she had two very formative experiences that started her on a path toward becoming a healthcare researcher. One was working as a research assistant with Dr. Keith Bellizzi, primarily focused on a study […]

Eight HDFS faculty and seven HDFS graduate students will be presenting their research at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) this November, online. See the full list here.

Alum Rona Karasik (MA, 1989) was recently named editor-in-chief of the journal Gerontology and Geriatrics Education. Learn more about Rona, a Professor and Program Director of Gerontology at St. Cloud State University, here.

  Sydney received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from SUNY Geneseo in 2019 and received a Master’s in Psychology from New York University in 2021. She joined the HDFS program in 2021 to work with Dr. Alaina Brenick to examine youth victimization and discrimination experiences in various contexts. Sydney is also interested in […]

Ryan was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor effective August, 2021!   Dr. Ryan Watson studies the health and well-being of sexual and gender diverse (SGD) youth and young adults. Coming from a family with no college graduates, he began his research career when he spotted a flyer that advertised a research opportunity. The flyer […]

Faculty, staff, and grad students were excited to see each other in person – socially distanced outside – at a gathering to celebrate the start of the new year.