Professional Development Series

Biden Institute features blog by Dr. Bahira Trask

Dr. Bahira Trask published a blog with the Biden Institute discussing how HDFS is “Preparing Students for 21st Century Careers” through a focus of social entrepreneurship in the field of human services. Dr. Trask explains how HDFS students are prepared …

Film Screening of What’s Race Got to Do With It?

HDFS is hosting a screening and discussion of What’s Race Got to Do With It? on Wed. April 4 from 1:30-3:30 pm. in 311 Pearson Hall. The film goes beyond identity politics, celebratory history and guilt trips to help viewers “see through” achievement m …

Social entrepreneurship series returns on 3/14 with Dr. Courthney Russell, Jr.

Dr. Courthney Russell, Jr. of Mastermind Society will lead the HDFS Social Entrepreneurship Professional Development series on March 14th at 12:15pm in 220 ALS. Mastermind Society focuses on social entrepreneurship and poverty. Dr. Courthney Russell, J …

Drs. Earnshaw and Barnes looking at bullying based on stigma

Dr. Valerie Earnshaw and Dr. Tia Barnes have published a study in Developmental Review looking bullying based on stigmatized characteristics such as gender, sexual orientation, race, disabilities, etc. Recently, there has been an increase in stigma-bas …

Save the date: Virtual Grad Student Conference May 31 & June 1

HDFS graduate students will host a two-day virtual conference, “Collaboration in the Human Sciences: Moving from Theory to Practice in Local and Global Contexts,” in collaboration with the University of Patras in Greece and the University of Tübingen i …

Latiaynna Tabb to present inaugural Social Entrepreneurship series

Wednesday, February 28th is the start of the new Social Entrepreneurship Professional Development Series, which will bring a variety of entrepreneurs to campus to discuss their career paths, and how they have built their careers around the benefits of …

In Memoriam: Catherine ‘Kitty’ Bieber

Catherine “Kitty” Bieber, former associate dean of the College of Human Resources (now the College of Education and Human Development) and associate professor of home economics education (a prior academic area of Human Development and Family Sciences), …

Drs. Barnes and Johnson receive grant to study culturally responsive teaching

Assistant professors Dr. Tia N. Barnes and Dr. Bridgette Johnson have been awarded a University of Delaware grant to support their study, “Examining the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Teacher Candidate’s Self-Ef …

Greetings from the South Africa!

HDFS students, along with Drs. Gaines-Hanks and Aviles, have safely arrived in South Africa for their winter session study abroad. During their first few days, the group toured the city of Pretoria, visited the Nelson Mandela statue, visited the Aparth …