CEHD In The News
July 27, 2025
Read the latest on CEHD faculty, staff and programs featured in news publications. July 2025 Stephanie Del Tufo Do you really need to read to learn? What neuroscience says about reading versus listening, The Conversation, July 28 Dominique Baker Columbia Deal a ‘Threat’ to Higher Ed, Experts Warn, Inside Higher Ed, …
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Big Savings, Big Impact: 2025 OATM Grant Winners at UD
July 23, 2025
The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press is excited to announce the 2025 Open and Affordable Teaching Materials grant recipients. These grants are made possible in part through support from the Unidel Foundation and donors to the Library, Museums and Press. Thanks to this support, students have saved more …
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UD awarded $699K grant to advance campus-wide character development
July 23, 2025
UD has been awarded a $699,258 Institutional Impact Grant from the Educating Character Initiative (ECI), part of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University to launch a three-year, university-wide initiative focused on character development. The project, University of Delaware Coalition on Character Development: Advancing Flagship State …
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Policy and Practice Institute 2025
July 2, 2025
In partnership with the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and the Delaware Association of School Administrators, UD’s School Success Center (SSC) and Partnership for Public Education (PPE), housed within the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), welcomed nearly 600 educators to the 23rd annual Policy and Practice Institute on …
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CEHD For The Record: Spring 2025
July 1, 2025
Check out the latest issue of CEHD For the Record, the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) internal newsletter highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students. The Spring 2025 issue showcases diverse and inspiring work across our School of Education, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, …
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Swimming With Sharks
June 30, 2025
Wading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build a robot that travels through water, mimics the characteristics of underwater animals and doesn’t scare the other fish. Through …
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Research Spotlight: Eric Layland
June 26, 2025
For many communities across the nation, Pride Month is a time to celebrate the challenges that LGBTQ+ people have faced and overcome. But the month of June also reminds parents, educators and human service professionals that LGBTQ+ individuals continue to grapple with the mental health effects of social stigma, especially …
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Catching Zzz
June 23, 2025
As a teenager at boarding school in China, Xiaopeng Ji remembers lying awake in her bed at night, staring at the ceiling for hours after lights out at 9 p.m. “I wasn’t a good sleeper, and I always thought it was all my fault,” she recalled. Years later, during her doctoral studies, …
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Championing student speech
June 17, 2025
For University of Delaware alumnus Jon Tressler, the inspiration behind his career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) has always been close to home — his younger sister, Hannah. Hannah has Down syndrome, but it’s never defined her. Self-determination and love from family and friends helped Hannah reach her goals, but …
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Pathway to leadership
June 11, 2025
Faculty at the University of Delaware are accustomed to leading class lectures and research labs — but recently 16 of them were back in the classroom as participants in the Presidential Academic Leadership Program, a new initiative designed to equip them with the foundational knowledge, tools and perspective shifts needed …
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Inspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025
The daughter of a Guyanese immigrant and a mother who “believed in the magic of school,” University of Delaware alumna Maria D’Aguiar Cobb grew up knowing education could change lives. Now a third grade gifted services teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington and a recipient of the Presidential Award …
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Showing Students They Matter
May 30, 2025
For University of Delaware alum Camila Polanco, EHD25, school was one of the first places where she learned how much it matters to feel seen, heard and valued—not only as a student, but as a whole person. After graduating this May, Polanco now hopes to use her dissertation work to …
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