CHIP Travel & Safety Information

The information below is offered to CHIP-affiliated faculty, staff and graduate students to assist them in their foreign and domestic traveling when performing research related work associated with CHIP. UConn Travel Approval Please access the CHIP Services/Travel information on CHIP’s website to gain access to CHIP-related travel matters http://www.chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/travel/ > Contact Sarah Bothell at CHIP [...]

USAID Encourages Use of CHIP HIV Intervention

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has published a case study on a CHIP evidence-based intervention to reduce alcohol-related HIV risk behaviors in sub-Saharan South Africa and is encouraging healthcare providers in developing countries to use it. A randomized controlled trial showed that the Phaphama (Zulu for “Wise Up”) intervention, developed and tested by CHIP Principal Investigators (PIs) Seth Kalichman, a [...]

New Grant Mentors Diverse HIV/AIDS Researchers

A new $1.3 million National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) research education grant brings together researchers from CHIP, Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) and the Institute for Community Research (ICR) in Hartford to mentor diverse scholars in community-based HIV/ AIDS research. The title of the grant is “Research Education Institute for [...]

Laramie Smith Wins National Research Service Award

Laramie Smith, a CHIP-affiliated doctoral student in social psychology, recently won a prestigious National Research Service Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Smith is the tenth psychology graduate student working with a CHIP mentor to receive an NRSA in as many years. She credits CHIP’s supportive atmosphere and researcher [...]

Parents, Researchers Focus on Health of Latino Girls

A graduate student working with two CHIP principal investigators was featured in the New Britain Herald. Viana Turcios is conducting focus groups about the health of adolescent Latina girls as part of CHIP PI Dr. Seth Kalichman’s NIH AIDS training grant, intended to train graduate students in social processes related to AIDS, and CHIP PI [...]

Autism Treatment Arsenal Expands, With More Options on Horizon

Joan Arehart-Treichel Thanks to government largesse and scientific ingenuity, innovative treatments for autism may be emerging—for instance, robots that can improve youngsters’ social and motor skills. During the past decade or so, autism has exerted an increasingly large impact on the American consciousness. The disorder is receiving a lot of media attention. Scientists are making [...]

CHIP Director Named Distinguished Professor

UConn Today, April 20, 2010 CHIP Director Jeffrey Fisher is one of three UConn faculty members named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor this year in recognition of excellence in research and teaching. Three faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are this year’s new Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors. Jeffrey D. [...]

Low-fat Diet Does Little to Lower Cholesterol Levels

ABC -7 (southwest Florida), March 18, 2010 CHIP Principal Investigator Jeffrey Volek discusses the benefits of low-carbohydrate diets. read more

Abstinence-only Sex Ed Leaves Kids Unprotected

Hartford Courant, February 12, 2010 CHIP Principal Investigator Blair Johnson penned an op-ed in favor of safer sex education programs for teens. read more

Tackling the Big Issues Around the World

UConn Today, Feb. 11, 2010 UConn Today profiled CHIP Principal Investigator Merrill Singer, a medical anthropologist, including a discussion of his recently published books. read more

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