Professor Rebecca Puhl was interviewed in the article Overcoming Weight Hate for the summer issue of the magazine Diabetic Living, and interviewed in an article on legislation to address weight discrimination for HR Dive (read the article here).

Graduate student Debra Fortune Tomasino received the LeadingAge Student Full Scholarship to attend the Annual Meeting & EXPO in San Diego on October 26-30, 2019.

Alumna Jill (Leider) Berquist, BA 1984 (HDFR), worked for over ten years as a recruiting director with Accenture. Subsequently, Jill founded Berquist Coaching Services, LLC in 1997.  For 21 years she has served clients nationally, working with executive leaders and their teams to uncover and leverage their unique brilliance to bring about meaningful and sustainable […]

Congratulations are in order for Associate Professor Laura Donorfio, who in October will receive the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Awards (Undergraduate Level) as part of the UConn Alumni Faculty Excellence Awards.  This is a university-wide award and a huge accomplishment – and is on top of the two teaching awards that Laura received from CLAS […]

Congratulations to Kate Dibble (current doctoral student), who was recently accepted for a postdoctoral fellowship into Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in cancer epidemiology, prevention, and control starting in September 2020.

Professor Rebecca Puhl discusses obesity discrimination and weight stigma. Read the articles in HRDIVE, INVERSE, and ReachMD.

Professor Marlene Schwartz was featured in the Farmington Valley Podcast Network talking about food policy, and in MSN discussing restaurant’s calorie labeling.

Alumna Shana Rackmill, BA 2004, served as both the HDFS Undergraduate Committee president and treasurer while an undergraduate at UConn.  She received an MSW from Boston University in 2006, and has worked as a Clinical Director for the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Children and Families group homes in the Boston area.  […]

Professor Rebecca Puhl was quoted in an article written for Deseret News in regard to obesity as a disability, and another article in PsychCentral discussing self-criticism about weight.

Alumna Constanza Cabello, BA 2008, received her masters from CCSU and an EdD from Northeastern.  After prior positions at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Bryant University, and Stonehill College, she will soon begin a position as Framingham State University’s first ever vice president for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement. Learn more about her here.