Author: Sara Dube

Congratulations to Julia and Sophie for their excellent presentations on their thesis projects earlier this week! We’re so proud of all our graduating seniors in the Widen Lab!

One of the lab’s graduate student researchers, Rachel, was selected for the Jean Hankin Nutritional Epidemiology Research Grant for her proposal focusing on growth and development trajectories of preterm infants and infants with gastroschisis.  Congrats again, Rachel!!

Muhammad Asim, a former visiting scholar with the Widen Lab, recently published a mixed-methods paper on prelacteal feeding practices (feeding substances or liquids other than breast milk to newborns) in Pakistan in the International Breastfeeding Journal. This paper triangulated data collected using both qualitative (in-depth interviews) and quantitative (analysis of the Pakistan Demographic and Health…