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Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth
October 21, 2025Assistant Professors Eric Layland and Brittany Zakszeski share guidance for parents, teachers and school leaders October 10, 2025 During adolescence—a period defined by rapid physical, emotional and social development—LGBTQ+ youth often grapple with th …
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Research Spotlight: Eric Layland
October 21, 2025Assistant Professor Eric Layland finds elevated mental health symptoms and underage substance use among Delaware LGBT+ youth October 10, 2025 National Coming Out Day continues to be a reminder that LGBTQ+ individuals make a brave decision to disclose t …
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Whitaker and Kunjapur named Gerard J. Mangone Young Scholars
September 29, 2025Young, promising scholars recognized for their outstanding research September 18, 2025 From the tiniest microbes to the earliest years of human life, Aditya Kunjapur, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Anamarie Whitaker, …
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Swimming with Sharks
June 30, 2025Wading 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 chara …
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Rethinking Food Systems
May 22, 2025Sustainable food systems major Evyn Appel bridges the gap between agriculture, policy and food access to create a more sustainable and equitable food system Many students seeking careers in agriculture grew up on or near a farm, but for Evyn Appel, a s …
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Research Spotlight: Jennifer Gallo-Fox and Dorit Radnai-Griffin
May 13, 2025UD Associate Professor Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Lab School Director Dorit Radnai-Griffin and their co-authors show how laboratory schools respond to challenges in early childhood education More than 100 years ago, laboratory schools—like University o …
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
November 4, 2024Assistant Professor Eric Layland and doctoral student Mohammad Mousavi share new research and strategies for supporting the coming out process October 11, 2024 In honor of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, University of Delaware researchers are shedd …
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Research Spotlight: Mousavi, Earnshaw and Layland
November 4, 2024CEHD research team publishes new review of studies on the developmental process of coming out for LGBTQ+ youth October 30, 2024 Many people think about LGBTQ+ identity disclosure—or the act of coming out—as a singular event that happens during one conv …
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Tackling Community Challenges
November 4, 2024Graduate College Spark! Symposium highlights the power of community-connected research October 30, 2024 When Michael Vaughan, vice provost for equity at the University of Delaware, introduced the program for the Graduate College’s sixth Spark! Symposiu …
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New CEHD Faculty Scholar
October 9, 2024Roderick L. Carey appointed CEHD Faculty Scholar in recognition of outstanding scholarship in human development and family sciences October 9, 2024 Roderick L. Carey, associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) Depart …
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