Author: Jennifer Laessig

  • PhD Candidate Amy Nichols wins grant and fellowship

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    Amy Nichols was awarded the 2019 Jean Hankin Nutritional Epidemiology Research Grant from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation. This $20,000 grant is awarded to provide financial support to a doctoral student working on a dissertation in the area of nutritional epidemiology. This grant will support Amy’s research focusing on maternal nutrition during pregnancy…

  • More semi-parametric modeling for pregnancy weight gain!

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    At ASN 2018, Dr. Widen presented a poster entitled “Classifying pregnancy weight gain trajectories in African American and Dominican Women from Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx.”  This analysis introduced Dr. Widen’s use of semi-parametric modeling for pregnancy weight gain trajectories as a means of more accurately tracking and examining weight gain patterns.  Unlike prior…

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