Human Development and Family Sciences
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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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HDFS alumna now promotes student health at Harvard
March 24, 2016HDFS alumna Amanda Ayers now works at Harvard University as it’s first general health educator. Ayers graduated from Human Services (formerly known as family and community services) and throughout her time at UD developed great experience in student we …
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HDFS Guest Speaker: Mike Adams returns to campus April 15
March 16, 2016Human Development and Family Studies invites the UD Community to hear and meet guest speaker, Mike Adams, on Friday April 15 at 4pm in 104 Gore Hall. More information on the event can be found at UDaily.
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#UDAbroad Voices of Our Community series features Dr. Norma Gaines-Hanks
March 8, 2016Dr. Norma Gaines-Hanks was recently featured in a #UDAbroad Voices of Our Community video promoting the HDFS Study Abroad trips that she leads to South Africa and Barbados during winter sessions. Dr. Gaines-Hanks is a strong supporter of students being …
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NLCDD hosted an intensive seminar in Israel
March 1, 2016In February, Professors Steve Eidelman and Nancy Weiss, of the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities, hosted a day-long seminar in Israel for 170 national leaders and officials to discuss the challenges that people with disabilit …
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