Rudd Center
Rudd Center’s Marlene Schwartz Featured on Panel about Food Insecurity in Connecticut
Speakers at the Hartford event discussed strategies to help families across the state facing food and nutrition insecurity.
Research Assesses Assets and Challenges for North Hartford Food Environment
Using the innovative Photovoice approach, community participants engage in citizen science by sharing their personal, lived experience to enhance research studies and bring awareness to health disparities
Tackling Food Insecurity: Cultural Food Guide
The UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health is tackling food insecurity with cultural food guides
Gray Divorce Puts Women at Greater Risk of Food Insecurity
American women who divorce after 50 have an increased likelihood of experience food insecurity, according to new UConn research
UConn Provost Announces Awards for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship
The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship (PAECES) recognize scholarly activities that integrate community engagement with research, creative work, and teaching
Meet the Researcher: Tatiana Andreyeva, CAHNR
At the Rudd Center and in CAHNR, Andreyeva balances her research with mentoring the next generation of research economists
Rudd Center Launches ‘Supportive Obesity Care’ Website
Resource is designed to help clinicians provide supportive care to patients of all body sizes
Taking On Stigmatization and Body-Shaming in the Media
Rebecca Puhl of the UConn Rudd Center was a panelist along with national media figures to discuss the ways in which body weight and obesity are covered and portrayed in the press
Federal Nutrition Assistance for Young Children: Under-utilized and Unequally Accessed
Only 3 out of 5 licensed childcare centers in low-income areas participate in CACFP, despite great needs in the community
Disclosing Product Ingredients on Children’s Drink Packages Helps Correct Misperceptions About Ingredients
Requiring companies to indicate added sugar, diet sweeteners and percent juice on the front of children’s fruit-flavored drinks may reduce children’s sweetened fruit drink consumption