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2025
April 17
In this issue:
Read More: Empowering Youth | UD announces third annual 302 Tour | Lerner students provide free tax help | Training for disaster | The impact of teachers’ emotions in the classroom | Women Leading Delaware Education
Events: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Bridging Borders Through Word | Learn to Live with Empty Hands | Ag Day 2025 | 2025 Impact Delaware Conference
April 3
In this issue:
Announcements: OLLI Summer Session
Read More: Making Waves in Health | Recognizing the Value of Play | In Bloom in Delaware
Events: The Ride Ahead | Master Gardener Sessions and Workshops | Become a Delaware Master Gardener Volunteer Information Session | Ag Day 2025 | Lori’s Hands Spring Soirée | UD By the Sea
Resources: New E4E Episode: Building Financially Literate Students | Summer Intensive on Community Engaged Scholarship
March 20
In this issue:
Read More: Recognizing Excellence | Bird flu battle stations | Rising stars in education | Dover Youth Committee Community Dinners
Events: Minority Mentor Lecture Series: We Keep Us Safe! | Women Leading Delaware Education Conference | Social Norm Messaging to Improve Health Outcomes | Biden Policy Dinner: A Conversation on Food Insecurity
March 6
In this issue:
Read More: Nurturing the whole child | Expanding access to healthcare
Events: Cooperative Extension Events: Delaware Tree Climbing School • Sussex County – Spring Master Gardener Workshops • Kent County – Spring Master Gardener Workshops • New Castle County – Spring Master Gardener Workshops • New Castle County – Spring Master Gardener Workshops • New Castle County – March to the Garden 2025 • Canning 101 | Violence: An American Tradition? | Debating Voting: Do We Have a Duty to Vote? | Lunchtime Learning: Lives Worth Living Screening & Discussion | Deisng for Riparian Disasters in a Changing Climate: Comparative Lessons from the Global South
February 20
In this issue:
Announcements: Newman Civic Fellowship nominations | Call to submit Spark! Symposium proposals by Feb. 24 | Reminder: 2025 summer student opportunities
Read More: Introducing the 2025 Legislative Fellows | A high five for the return of the 4-H Delaware State Leader Forum
Events: The Intersection of Community and Family Resiliency | Colloquium on Campus Open Expression | Biden School Seminar: Social Capital and Community Engagement | HERstories: Advancing Advocacy and Research on Gender-Based Violence | Film Screening: Heaven Can You Hear Me?
Resources: Navigating the Federal Transition webpage
February 6
In this issue:
Announcements: Partners Wanted: UD Big Day of Service | Reminder: 2025 DENIN Faculty Fellows applications open
Read More: Brandywine flood study calls for ‘massive’ list of efforts to protect region from future storms | Supporting Displaced Families
Events: Cooperative Extension Events: Master Gardener workshops • Mental Wellness and Prevention: The Intersection of Community and Family | How to Lose a Democracy | Economics in Action: Ethics and the Environment for K-12 Teachers | Film Screening: Join or Die | Biden School Seminar: The Financial and Policy Impact of Electric Vehicles and Improved Fuel Economy on Delaware’s Motor Fuel Tax Revenue
Resources: New Evidence for Education Episode: The Role of AI in Writing (Part 1) | Data Storytelling: Visualization Best Practices
January 23
In this issue:
Announcements: 2025 DENIN Faculty Fellows applications now open
Awards Corner: Aviles honored by ACLU of Delaware | Lifetime Achievements in Mathematics Education
Read More: Resilience X and Wits Workout | Empowering UD Student Parents | Speaking for the trees | ICYMI: Saving the Rodney Reservoir
Events: CEHD Graduate Programs Open House | Empowering the Future: Engaging Community Stakeholders with a Focus on Youth Empowerment | Five Ways to Freedom: Wilmington’s Underground Railroad | Transcendent Resilience: Black Women, Artivism and the Carceral State | 2025 UD Convening on Character Development | Canning 101
January 9
In this issue:
Announcements: Reminder: Summer 2025 Undergraduate Summer Scholars applications open | Winter & Spring 2025 nonprofit training programs registration open
Watch More: UD’s Black Histories StoryMap
Events: Winter Fun Day | Delaware Ag Week | January Explorations: Free online OLLI mini-courses | Planning 101: Planning Your Community’s Future | Annie’s Project | Sussex County 4-H Public Speaking Contest | Love Your Soil | Delaware Gardening Past and Present
Resources: New E4E Episode | New Toolkit on Informed Consent Process for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
2024
December 5
In this issue:
Announcements: Undergraduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars application open Dec 6 | Save the Date: Partnership for Public Education Listening Session
Read More: Saving the Rodney Reservoir
Events: Freedom and Slavery at Delaware College: A Student Research Symposium | Addressing Wicked Issues Series: Youth & Gun Violence | Empowered Futures: Legal and Healthcare Readiness Day | Advanced Land Use Law | Kent County Master Gardener Workshop: Spruce It Up
A Look Ahead to 2025: How to start a business | Delaware Ag Week | Planning 101: Planning Your Community’s Future | Annie’s Project | Love Your Soil| Delaware Gardening Past and Present
November 21
In this issue:
Announcements: Summer 2025 student program applications open | Join the 2024-2025 Mid-Career Learning Community
Read More: ICYMI: Small Grants for Wilmington projects | Launch into Your Future | Education Updates: Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth • 90 Years of Excellence in Early Childhood Education • Developing an Early Love of Reading | UD Cooperative Extension and New Castle County work together to provide healthy recipes to the community
Events: Storytime with Delaware Sea Grant | Hidden Histories: Introducing “Black Histories at UD”
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