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For Salma Ibrahim, receiving mentorship and being a mentor has been key to her undergraduate success as a developmental psychology major in the Institute of Child Development. Ibrahim was recently honored as a 2023 recipient of the President’s Student Leadership and Service Award. As she prepares to graduate, Ibrahim reflects on her time at ICD. […]

Nat Dumornay (she/they), a second year PhD student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the Institute of Child Development, has been awarded a prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Ford Foundation Fellowship has been a prominent program aimed at increasing diversity in college and […]

The Institute of Child Development has launched a new MEd degree program in Early Care and Education. This program was specifically designed for individuals who are seeking a master’s degree in early education, without the requirements of the Minnesota state teaching license. This allows for a flexible learning plan that will support leaders in the […]

Awards Isaac Bisla was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Read more here. Colin Drexler and Seokyung Kim received the Society for Research in Child Development’s (SRCD) Student and Early Career Council (SECC) poster competition award. Colin presented his poster “Developing Measures of Executive Function, Learning, and Memory for the NIH Infant […]

ICD doctoral student Sarah Pan and ICD Professor Michèle Mazzocco recently published a new blog post on how to incorporate early math learning into everyday family routines. The post “Finding Meaningful Math in Everyday Family Routines” was published by the Development and Research in Early Math Education (DREME) network at Stanford University. Pan and Mazzocco […]

Isaac Bisla (he/him/his), a 2nd year PhD student in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.  The NSF Fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding students who are pursuing research-based graduate degrees in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Fellows receive a three-year annual […]

CEED's latest Tip Sheets delve into the components of active listening and how reflective practice can transform it into reflective listening. Learn techniques for using reflective listening to support relationships.

Congratulations to ICD Professor Stephanie Carlson on being awarded the James McKeen Cattell Fund sabbatical award for 2023-2024. The award provides $40,000 in funding to allow for an extended sabbatical. Carlson will spend her sabbatical year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education collaborating with colleagues and writing an updated comprehensive review of executive function […]

Congratulations to the following Institute of Child Development (ICD) PhD candidates on their recent matches with clinical internships. Completing a one-year clinical internship is the final stage of doctoral training for students on the developmental psychopathology and clinical science track, alongside completion of a dissertation. Lauren Eales will join the University of Minnesota Medical School. […]

ICD doctoral candidate Sarah Gillespie was awarded first place at the Three Minute Thesis competition during CEHD’s 2023 Research and Innovation Day. Gillespie presented her research from Project UNITE: UNderstanding Identity Through Education, which is an evaluation of a new ethnic studies graduation requirement on high school students.  “After planning and working on this study […]