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Since February 2022, more than 8.1 million Ukrainians — including 2 million children — have fled their homes in Ukraine due to war and hardship. Many families had to make difficult decisions about the items they were able to carry with them, and very few were able to take their …

Each spring, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards graduate research fellowships to promising undergraduate and graduate students around the country. These individuals are anticipated to become knowledge experts in their field and to help advance the nation’s technological infrastructure, national security and economic well-being through their research, teaching and innovations …

On May 26, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) celebrated 471 degree candidates in the fields of education and human development at its 2023 Convocation ceremony at UD’s Field House. With the graduating students, their families and CEHD faculty and staff in attendance, the ceremony …

In the classroom, in research labs, on the athletic fields, in the community — and in ways both large and small — the University of Delaware’s Class of 2023 is already changing the world. Blue Hen pride was overflowing at Delaware Stadium as UD celebrated its newest class of graduates …

The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) presents the Spring 2023 issue of CEHD For the Record. A newly created news source, For the Record highlights the accomplishments of faculty, staff and students across the School of Education (SOE), Department of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) and centers …

The University of Delaware added a new twist to its tradition-rich Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on Thursday, May 25, celebrating the more than 350 students who have earned their doctorates in the past year by raising a celebratory toast. Almost 250 were in the house — the Bob Carpenter Center, that …

In a recent interview with WDEL, Allison Karpyn, co-director of CEHD’s Center for Research in Education and Social Policy and associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, discusses the Delaware school lunch program.   While Delaware school lunch programs recently received low marks from the Department …

In a recent Education Week article, Lauren Bailes, assistant professor in the School of Education (SOE), discusses new research on the schoolwide effects of chronic absenteeism in kindergarten through 3rd grade in Delaware. Bailes co-authored this study with Henry May, director of CEHD’s Center for Research in Education and Social …

Christina Areizaga Barbieri, University of Delaware assistant professor, Dana Miller-Cotto of Kent State University and UD doctoral students Sarah N. Clerjuste and Kamal Chawla conducted a meta-analysis of 55 experimental studies and found that studying worked examples—or worked-out solutions to math problems—were moderately effective at improving learners’ mathematics performance when …

Wearing virtual reality headsets, Delaware high school students were transported to a different world, where they learned about balance in the University of Delaware’s Virtual Reality and Orthotics Gait Lab. They were shown the links between orthopedics and engineering from a demo by The Perry Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks …