Human Development and Family Sciences
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Early childhood students visiting from China along with their guide,
Holly Abrams, HDFS doctoral student
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Welcome to the new academic year! I hope you had a lovely summer with some well-deserved relaxation and fun. HDFS has lots of exciting new plans for this fall! We are welcoming visiting scholars from Italy and Greece, a brand new faculty member in Social Entrepreneurship, and a group of Early Childhood students from China. Our faculty have begun new community-based research projects and are revising their classes into hybrid and online modules.This month’s newsletter introduces some of our newest HDFS members and initiatives. I wish everyone a fantastic semester!
Sincerely,
Bahira Sherif Trask, HDFS department chair
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Faculty & Staff Spotlights
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Please welcome
Kristen Pousson
, administrative assistant, to HDFS. Kristen handles the course scheduling, registration, website editing, and many other important tasks in our office. She is a wonderful addition to the department, assisting our faculty, staff, and students.
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Kristen works alongside
Sarah Yarrusso
,
business administrator, who handles overall office management, financials, and department event coordination. They are both located in 111 Alison Hall West.
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Allison Karpyn is the author of the newly published book,
Food and Public Health.
Allison is an associate professor and associate director of CRESP, and a Fellow with the UD Community Engagement Initiative.The book focuses on providing an accessible introduction to food regulations, policy, and education. She will be giving a book talk on October 4th.
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Stephanie Raible
, assistant professor, is a new, jointly appointed HDFS and Horn Entrepreneurship faculty member. Her teaching experience includes the areas of social entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, creative problem solving, management, and leadership. Stephanie will be working closely on the development of our new social entrepreneurship concentration and with our scholars in residence program.
She is currently teaching
ENTR420/620
and will teach a new course, Community-based Social Entrepreneurship,
HDFS490
in the spring.
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In June, early childhood faculty, Martha Buell, Rena Hallam, and Myae Han
(pictured right)
were colloquium presenters at the Intercultural Forum on
Professional Narratives in Refugee Education
. Bahira Sherif Trask presented as well. The Forum was part of the 25th Lerner Conference held in Nafplio, Greece and was sponsored by the Laboratory of Sociology & Education, DESECE, and the University of Patras.
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HDFS is excited to be offering a new concentration in
Human Services in Early Childhood Development
.
The program will prepare students with a strong background in early childhood development and care, early intervention, family studies and programming for young children and is ideal for students who want to teach in or direct early care education programs, become early intervention specialists, or work with young children and their families in other capacities.
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This fall, HDFS is launching a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence program. Each academic year, the residency program will welcome prominent, local social entrepreneurs to serve as educators, mentors, and advocates for social innovation and entrepreneurship on UD's campus.
The Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence will serve in a month-long role to facilitate discussions and encourage further understanding and engagement in social entrepreneurship on campus. Appointed social entrepreneurs-in-residence serve as area experts both inside and outside the classroom, with activities ranging from "brown bag" practitioner talks, classroom presentations, one-on-one student coaching, campus-based advocacy, event coordination, and research engagements. Latiaynna Tabb MS '15, owner and founder of Tabb Management,
(pictured above)
will be serving in this role for the month of October.
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Keeping America's Children Eating Well Book Talk: Dr. Allison Karpyn
October 4th, 3:00 pm
106 Pearson Hall
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Social Entrepreneurship Series:
Dr. Stephanie Raible &
Ms. Latiyanna Tabb
October 18th, 1:00 pm
200 Academy Street Conference Room
Dr. Gloria James
October 24th, 4:00 pm
106 Pearson Hall
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Global Research Series Seminar
October 5th, 3:00 pm
220 Alison Hall
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Race and Culture Event:
Dr. Roderick Carey
November 15th, 3:30 pm
Gallery, Perkins Student Center
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