Human Development and Family Sciences
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ECE Students help develop toys for Lab Preschool
May 26, 2016During Spring 2016, Early Childhood Education majors collaborated with Mechanical Engineering students on a project to design and build developmentally appropriate toys for the children at the Laboratory Preschool. Months of collaboration between ECE a …
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Congratulations to Attalie Carnavali!
May 23, 2016Attalie Carnavalie, senior Human Services major, was given the 2015-2016 Grossman Memorial Award by the Division of Student Life. The Grossman Award, established by the class of 1963, recognizes undergraduate students who have demonstrated exceptional …
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Congratulations to the 2015-2016 award winners!
May 19, 2016Congratulations to the 2015-2016 award winners! Human Development and Family Studies graduate and undergraduate students were recognized at the Celebration of Excellence on Friday, May 13. Students received awards to recognize their exceptional work in …
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Dr. Trask featured in WalletHub’s Best/Worst States for Working Mothers
May 10, 2016Dr. Bahira Trask was featured as an expert on WalletHub’s 2016 evaluation of the Best/Worst States for Working Mothers. Dr. Trask provided insight on the challenges and supports that impact work/life balance for working mothers.
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2016 Steele Symposium
May 10, 2016On April 29, many HDFS students and faculty participated in the annual Steele Symposium at the Embassy Suites. Over 40 students presented posters and papers of their research work, and some were recognized with awards for their research contributions. …
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Ph.D. student blog featured on Huffington Post
May 8, 2016Cara Cuccuini-Harmon, along with a fellow graduate student and two postdoctoral fellows, contributed to a blog on the Huffington Post. The students published “Read at Your Own Risk: Three Red Flags to Look for When Evaluating On-line Articles” on Dr. R …
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Highlights from 2016’s Project Search
May 2, 2016This year’s Project Search educational job fair brought hundreds of teacher candidates and employers together to discuss available opportunities in the teaching field. Early Childhood Education majors were among the student candidates who attended to d …
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Dr. Perlman’s work continues on through homeless youth project
April 26, 2016Dr. Staci Perlman, Assistant Professor in HDFS, passed away unexpectedly in August 2015. Shortly before she passed away, she was awarded a grant through the William Penn Foundation to support her work studying the education of homeless youth. This gran …
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Ph.D. Student to attend statistics workshop in Poland
April 25, 2016Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, an HDFS Ph.D. student, has been selected to attend the Statistical Teaching and Analytic Research Training (START) pilot workshop in Warsaw, Poland in July 2016. The START summer pilot program is designed to 1) offer graduate stud …
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Great turnout for alum and NFL player Mike Adams’ Outreach colloquium
April 18, 2016Many students, staff, faculty and community members came out on Friday, April 15 to hear Mike Adams’ outreach colloquium “Reaching Back While Moving Forward.” Adams shared stories of the obstacles he overcame as an undergraduate student and football pl …
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