The UConn Daily Campus had a story about the granting of 8 graduate certificates in Culture, Health, and Human Development. Read the article here. 

Associate Professor Laura Mauldin was recently profiled in STAT News in their “Living With” series, which “explores the contours of life with chronic illness, from the prelude to diagnosis to new patterns of living, to wrestling with big questions about illness and health”. Read the article here.

Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured in a Connecticut Public Broadcasting show, Providing healthy and free school lunches for all. Listen to the podcast here.

Congratulations to AssociateProfessor Alaina Brenick, whose project, Validating a measure of school-based interpersonal and institutional discrimination experienced by transgender and gender non-binary youth was funded by the UConn Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Research Initiative.

Anneliese graduated from UConn in 2020 with a B.A. in HDFS and a B.S. in Biological Sciences. As a pre-med student who hoped to become a pediatrician, she added an HDFS major in order to foster an understanding of physical, social, and emotional child development. By pursuing HDFS, she was able to emphasize the multidisciplinary […]

Suge Zhang is a first-year PhD student working with Dr. Charles Super as an advisor. Her primary interest lies in how race, ethnicity, and culture interact to affect the experiences of Asian and Asian American parents and children. In particular, she is interested in ethnic-racial socialization among Asian immigrant families from an intergenerational perspective. Another […]

Vida Samuel came to UConn Stamford in 2016 as an adjunct professor while leading a communication consulting business for women new to leadership positions. She has been an Assistant Professor in Residence in HDFS since 2018. Vida is a scholar in women’s studies and intercultural communication and received her master’s in speech and interpersonal communication […]

Rebecca Puhl was featured in several outlets discussing weight stigma: NBC News: Interviewed on weight stigma, health, and weight loss The Nourished Child Podcast: Weight stigma in youth WBUR-FM: Stigma and ‘fat shaming’ can fuel depression and increase obesity Bloomberg: Obesity drugs for kids? Why new guidelines make sense Business Insider: Weight discrimination may shorten […]

Associate Professor Annamaria Csizmadia was featured in a Journal Inquirer article about social media and kids. Read the article here.

Seven HDFS faculty and six HDFS graduate students will be giving nine presentations at the Society for Behavioral Medicine in Phoenix this April. See a list of all the presentations here!