Apr 25, 2025
Congratulations to Jiayan Zhu, a recipient of the Lehigh Graduate Life Leadership Award. This award recognizes a graduate student in each of Lehigh's five colleges who exhibits exemplary commitment, leadership and service to the university's graduate student community and whose efforts have made significant contributions to graduate student life.
Apr 24, 2025
Josselyn Alvarenga, a second-year doctoral student in the COE’s Counseling Psychology program, is passionate about supporting healthy child development in marginalized families. Her research looks at how culture shapes the ways in which young children learn to handle and show their emotions.
Focusing on Black and Latinx families, Alvarenga looks at how parents and caregivers respond to their child’s distress, the child’s feelings of closeness and security with their caregivers, and how the child manages stress. She hopes that her research and the research of others within the Hands and Hearts Together project where she works, will promote wide-scale changes that positively impact family relationships and behaviors in these communities.
Apr 24, 2025
A strong bond between a young child and their caregiver plays an important role in laying the foundation for children’s future health and wellbeing. This bond, or attachment, can be measured as the level of connection and safety young children feel with their parent or caregiver. As the director of the CARE Lab at Lehigh, Susan Woodhouse and her team study caregiving attachment and how children learn to manage and express their emotions. They then share this information to help parents respond to their children’s needs.
Apr 23, 2025
Dr. Brandi Simonsen will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2025 John A. Stoops Lecture on May 6, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Iacocca Hall. Established in tribute to Lehigh’s first dean of education and founder of Centennial School, this year’s lecture marks Centennial’s sixtieth anniversary. Simonsen's remarks, titled Celebrating Centennial School and the Promise of Positive Practice, will examine the contributions of Centennial, and the use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
Apr 21, 2025
Lehigh's College of Education (COE) is sponsoring an Educator Job Fair and Early Career Kickoff Event on June 5, 2025 from 4 to 6 p.m. on Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus. Light refreshments will be provided.
Apr 18, 2025
Congratulations to Dylan Fedell, a student in the COE's Supervisor of Curriculm and Instruction certification. Fedell has received a Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees’ Stock the Classroom Grant. The Palisades High School science teacher will use the $5,000 award to start an aquaponics program at his school.
Fedell was awarded a Pennsylvania Power & Light Corporation’s STEM (Science, Technology Engineering, and Math) Educator award in January to support his work in the classroom. He is also the recipient of a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST).