UConn Sociology students, Savannah-Nicole Villalba (left) and Caroline Brooks (right) presented their research at the 2018 Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Conference in Baltimore.  Savannah-Nicole Villalba’s research, titled “A Healthy Food Inventory of Waterbury, CT” received the Best Undergraduate Poster Award.  This distinction was given to seven out of 170 posters.  Savannah-Nicole’s project was funded by the UConn IDEA Grant and the UConn Co-op Legacy Fellowship Program.  The title of Caroline Brooks’ project is “A Cross Sectional Time Series Analysis on the Impacts of Race on Homeownership.”