Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 9/24 CHIP Lecture: Stress and Low-Calorie Dieting

    CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2015

    “Stress, Eating, and Biobehavioral Effects of Low-Calorie Dieting”

    Janet Tomiyama, PhD, UCLA

    12:30 - 1:30pm

     

    Co-Sponsors:
    UConn Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion (CEHHP)

    UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy

    Center for the Study of Culture, Health and Human Development

    UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies

    UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace

    UConn Health Disparities Institute/Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy (TRIPP)

    UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business

    UConn School of Business

    UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

    UConn Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

    Location

    Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
    J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
    University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
    For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.

    Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.

    Web Stream

    You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.

    About the Speaker
    Dr. A. Janet Tomiyama received her BA in Psychology from Cornell University, and in 2009 obtained her Masters and Ph.D. from UCLA in Social Psychology with concentrations in Health Psychology and Quantitative Psychology. She was then a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar jointly at UCSF and UC Berkeley, and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA. Her work, which has been recognized by the Society for Behavioral Medicine Early Career award among others, focuses on the biobehavioral consequences of stress, dieting, and weight stigma. 

    More information available at: 
    http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/fall-2015-schedule/

    For more information, contact:

    CHIP Lecture Series at lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu

     

    For more information, contact: CHIP Lecture Series at lectureseries@chip.uconn.edu