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The hidden cost of parental mental illness
Article by Jessica Henderson | April 29, 2026
UD shares new research on the link between parental mental illness and childhood socioeconomic status
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Building leaders, strengthening the workforce
Article by Karen B. Roberts | April 29, 2026
EPSCoR, INBRE funding serve vital role in Delaware STEM research workforce and biomedical research
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Making space for UD student-parents
Article by Jamie Washington | April 29, 2026
Morris Library’s newly opened Family Study Space offers student-parents a dedicated space to study while caring for their children
Interdisciplinary Programs
Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement
Partnerships help us provoke new thinking in the classroom, pursue new insights in every field, translate our discoveries to innovation and engage with the community."
The Graduate Certificate in Community Engagement prepares educated, engaged citizens and scholars who can address critical community issues and contribute to the public good. This certificate is particularly beneficial as funding agencies increasingly require researchers to articulate their work’s relevance and wider societal impact.
Recorded on students' transcripts, the certificate creates a scaffold by which scholars integrate their academic study into community engagement experiences through participation in coursework, community-focused graduate research or creative work, and hands-on experience.
Scholars will maintain a portfolio that may contain reflection materials, research documents, a record of experiential hours and a final synthesis that documents their deepened understanding as community-engaged scholars.
The Graduate Community Engagement Summer Scholars program offers highly motivated graduate students the opportunity to immerse themselves in community-based research or creative projects. Scholars spend 10 weeks (20-25 hours/week) during the summer in full-time pursuit of their projects in partnership with a Delaware nonprofit, government, community-based action research or service-based corporate agency and simultaneously pursue academic reflection. At the conclusion of the program, scholars present their projects at a symposium and receive a stipend of $5,000.
This program is open to students from any academic discipline, providing a valuable opportunity to pursue community-engaged scholarship.
Advisement
Students will assess their projects with assistance from CEI. They will submit a final report upon completion of the project.
News
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Making space for UD student-parents
Article by Jamie Washington | April 29, 2026
Morris Library’s newly opened Family Study Space offers student-parents a dedicated space to study while caring for their children
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May 14: Academic Freedom event at UD
Article by Jackie Diehl | April 28, 2026
The University of Delaware will host constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen for a campus-wide conversation on academic freedom in higher education
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Educator to executive
Article by Karen B. Roberts | April 28, 2026
Mary Dozier launches nonprofit out of her UD academic research
Connect
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