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2024
November 7
In this issue:
Announcements: Graduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars application open
Awards Corner: Beth Mineo wins Mary Custis Straughn Award
Events: Cooperative Extension Events • Walk and Roll Session 2 has started • Stormwater Seminar: Enhancement & Funding • Kent Master Gardeners: Growing Food Indoors Hydroponically | Get It Together: Tools and Tips to Manage a Long-Term Research Project | CHARMed by STEM: Science Kits at TCS | Cultural Immersion: Dialogue, Storytelling, and Dance with the Naticoke Nation | Foundation Grants for Impactful Funding Workshop
October 24
In this issue:
Read More: Strengthening Early Literacy | New Faculty, New Appointments in the College of Education and Human Development | Creating Healthier Communities, One Step at a Time | Translating health research into impact
Watch More: Delaware Network for Excellence in Autism enhances traffic stop preparedness for autistic drivers
Events: OCTOBER | Ryan Cowley: Commanding Respect as a Person Who Stutters | Democracy in Focus: Media’s Role in the 2024 Election | TRUCEN Virtual Lightning Session | Night of Frights and Delights at Morris Library
NOVEMBER | Border & Politics: An Interactive “Teach-In” Event to Humanize Migration | Elevate and Support: Teaching, Accessibility & Faculty Resources | The Changing Landscape of Intercollegiate Athletics | Cultural Immersion: Dialogue, Storytelling, and Dance with the Nanticoke Nation
Resources: Coping with election anxiety
October 10
In this issue:
Read More: Exceptional trauma-informed care | Civic education | Simplifying the science | Learning Together | Multilingual Learners of English improving their English language skills
Events: Upcoming Cooperative Extension Health and Well-bring Events: Walk With Ease • Walk and Roll • Dining with Diabetes | The Future of Africana Studies | The Innocents | Harvesting and Saving Native Seeds | Practice Traffic Stop | New Castle County 4-H Quarter Auction
September 26
In this issue:
Announcements: Festival of Nations
Read More: Student Spotlight: Ana Ramirez-Santos | Studying Systemic Racism | Extension Scholars Program 2024
Events: Difficult Discussions | Coast Day 2024 | The Power of Plain Language | Indigenous Delaware: Nanticoke Land Stewardship and Language Revitalization | Cooch’s Bridge: The African American Presence
Resources: New Episode! Evidence for Education | Library Workshop: Finding Funding with the Pivot Database | Campus Compact Fall 2024 Communities of Practice
September 12
In this issue:
Read More: Student Spotlight: Bri Egan, Cate Boettger and Talia Brinker | Student Spotlight: Delia Quinn
Events: Upcoming Cooperative Extension Programs: Walk With Ease, Walk and Roll, Dining with Diabetes | Upcoming Sussex Master Gardeners Fall Workshops | Newark Community Day | Stormwater Seminars | Mapping Black Entrepreneurship in Civil War Wilmington: Pilot Project Findings | The Question of Character in Executive Leadership | Mary K. Carl Lecture: Advancing Health Equity
August 29
In this issue:
Read More: Student Spotlight: Anastasia Burns and Cynthia Brosky | Partner Spotlight: Coming Together at the Table | Youth Outreach in New Castle County
Events: Upcoming Cooperative Extension Programs: Walk With Ease, Walk and Roll, Entrepreneur Food Safety Training, Beginning Farmer Program and Dining with Diabetes | UD Summit on the Opioid Epidemic | UD Lab School 90th Anniversary Celebration | the Question of Character in Executive Leadership
Resources: Apply now for The Innovators’ Community of Practice
August 15
In this issue:
Read More: Student Spotlight: Samantha Jennings | Homelessness in Delaware: New Ideas and Directions | Content experts in various areas needed to teach K-12 educators
Resources: New Resource Guides from the Delaware Network for Excellence in Autism
July 18
In this issue:
Events: Delaware State Fair
Read More: Fostering Community Engagement at the YMCA | Student Spotlight: Emma Mathias | Greater Perspectives | Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth | Improving Literacy | Supporting Delaware Educators | Empowering Black Secondary Mathematics Educators | The Power of Peer Tutoring | Answering the Call for Social Workers | UD students take the lead at the annual summer pest and beneficial insect walk in Sussex County
June 20
In this issue:
Events: SNF Ithaca Research Scholar Webinar – From Waves to Ecosystems: The Next Stage of Democratic Innovation | Lunchtime Learning: Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Read More: Alumna Spotlight: Briana Henry | Student Spotlight: Alexandra Lee | 2024 Summer Scholars Orientation | CEHD Center Featured for Successful Partnership and Improved Literacy Outcomes in Maryland | Supporting Early Childhood Education Teachers | CEHD Celebrates Education Signing Day at Cape Henlopen High School
May 30
In this issue:
Events: Technology of Participation Facilitiation Methods Workshop | 22nd Annual Policy & Practice Institute
Read More: The UD STEAM Team Build on Ambassador Roles | Leaders in Nature-Based Education | Women Leading Delaware Education | Fostering School Success
May 2
In this issue:
Events: Fireside Chat with Anthony Fauci | State of the Arts Festival | Art & Activism: A Disabled Artist’s Journey | (UN)Framing Black Joy | Poetry as Activism Festival | Cooperative Extension events: 4-H STEAM Team, Tree Climbing School and Hobby Greenhouse workshop
Read More: Connecting Communities | Equity in Action | Vocational Hopes and Expectations