May 8, 2025
Carla Kologie, the 2025 Hillman Non-Exempt Staff Award recipient, serves as executive assistant to the dean in the College of Education.
From managing field placements and licensure records to navigating leadership transitions, Carla has consistently demonstrated precision, calm under pressure, and a deep commitment to supporting students, faculty, and staff.
May 5, 2025
Sarah McDermott has received a Williams Prize from Lehigh for outstanding work in writing and performance. Her entry, titled "Adolescents' Gender-Typed Communication Behaviors and Friendship Experiences," was awarded first place in the Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology category for Spring 2025.
May 2, 2025
COE graduate students from the recently-approved Counseling Psychology Club have compiled resources to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month and help students through finals week.
Apr 25, 2025
Jiayan Zhu, has received the COE 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.