Category: Students

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 Widen Lab’s graduate researchers, Saralyn, has been awarded the Young Investigator Grant from the Egg Nutrition Council for her proposal on the impact of eggs as a complementary food in the first year of life on diet quality focusing on protein, choline, lutein and iron. In her own words, Saralyn shares, “as a…

As the Widen Lab team has been adjusting to a fully virtual format, we have been fortunate enough to add more members to our team during this challenging time. Please welcome our newest staff member and Research Lab Associate, Juan Pablo, and our three new undergraduate student researchers, Minji, Lauren, and Helen! You can learn…

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…

Amy Nichols, a doctoral candidate in our lab, and Dr. Widen recently published a paper in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in the article titled, “Prepregnancy obesity is associated with lower psychomotor development scores in boys at age 3 in a low-income, minority birth cohort.” The article explores associations between maternal…