Jun 23, 2025
Patti Manz recently received a grant from the PNC Foundation to support the "Little Talks in the Lehigh Valley" project. The grant will enable her to offer Little Talks, a parent-mediated home-based intervention to bolster infant/toddler communication and language development, to families experiencing economic hardship through community centers in the Lehigh Valley.
Jun 18, 2025
A new study by J. Cameron Anglum and Anita Manion looks at the perceptions of students and parents regarding the political leanings of public schools. Published by the Brookings Institution, their research finds that adults' perceptions of public school bias vary by party affiliation, while most high school students say that public schools are politically neutral or balanced.
Jun 17, 2025
Juan Zheng has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support her project titled, "Meta-Partner: Hybrid Intelligence for Self-Regulated Learning." This project will develop Meta-Partner, an AI system that helps students set goals, adjust strategies, monitor progress, and reflect on their learning while building AI literacy and self-regulation skills, over the next two years.
Jun 16, 2025
A new study published in the International Journal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) explores how language impacts CBT training and implementation. The researchers point out, “With a rapidly growing Latine population in the U.S. (Dietrich & Hernandez, 2022), there is an increased need to understand the role of language in evidence-based practice training and implementation.”
Jun 11, 2025
Once a week, Lori Gallagher Anderson arrives on Lehigh’s Mountaintop Campus with fresh groceries for the food pantry housed in Iacocca Building. Transporting all of those supplies into the building can be a challenge. “There are days I have my wagon piled high and multiple bags slung across each shoulder,” she laughed. But Anderson receives help from an unexpected source: a campus transit driver.
Jun 10, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives, teachers must invent ways to improve AI literacy for their students...and their fellow educators. Tom Hammond, associate professor and program director for Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT), says prioritizing human intelligence, the “human in the loop,” is key to reaping the benefits of AI technology and minimizing the risks of erroneous results.