The Chip fall lecture series continues Thursday, September 24, 2015. with Janet Tomiyama Ph.D speaking on “Stress, Eating, and Biobehavioral Effects of Low-Calorie Dieting”

Dr. 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.

The event is being co-sponsored by: UConn Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion (CEHHP); UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy Center for the Study of Culture; the 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 Medicine, UConn Health; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology; and the university’s Women’s, Gender Sexuality Studies Program.

It will take place from 12:30 pm-1:30 pm in Video Conference Room 204 on the second floor of the Ryan Building at 2006 Hillside Road at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.on the second floor of the Ryan Building at 2006 Hillside Road at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.