Sebastian Cioaba, professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, taught a one-week short course on spectral graph theory to 45 graduate students between Oct. 27 and 31, 2025, at IIT Hyderabad, India, as a part of the GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) program. 

Jarett Haley,  assistant professor in College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) School of Education, gave two presentations at the 2025 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference from Nov. 12-15, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. They include “Exploring Undergraduate Black Men’s Discriminatory Interactions with White Peers” and “‘I'm Not Aware of It’: Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Graduate Colleges’ DEI Efforts” with colleagues J. Kim and R. J. Perez.

Jess Monahan, Spectrum Scholars research manager in CEHD’s Center for Disabilities Studies, gave a keynote address at the College Autism Summit from Nov. 2-5, 2025, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The title of the keynote was “Rooted in Community: The Power of Connection.”

Publications

Research by Lindsay Hoffman, associate professor of communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, and doctoral students Wyatt Dawson and Ebuka Ifeanyichukwu, was recently published in the journal SN Social Sciences. The article, “Discourse-Based Interventions, Intellectual Humility, and Political Participation on College Campuses,” examines how structured dialogue programs, such as free intelligent conversations and living room conversations, on college campuses promote intellectual humility and encourage civic engagement among students. 

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor emeritus in the Department of Theatre and Dance, published a review of the documentary memoir Remembering East Germany: From Oberlin to East Berlin by Richard A. Zipser (Pennsauken Township, NJ, BookBaby, 2022, 396 pp.) in Comenius, Journal of Euro-American Civilization (New York, Vol. 12, Nr. 1, 2025). Zipser‘s fascinating documentary transports the reader back in time to the chilling Cold War days of yesteryear and takes him behind the Iron Curtain. Today it is scarcely imaginable that what Zipser documents was cruel daily life for decades between the Elbe and the Oder (and all over communist Europe). "Zipser‘s approach is a powerful tool for discovering, exploring and evaluating the nature of the historical memory – how people make sense of their past, how they connect individual experience and its social context, how the past becomes part of the present as long as people and culture are cancelled," Haus said.

Jarett Haley, assistant professor in College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) School of Education, published “Undergraduate Black Men Navigating Black Misandry in Residence Life and Student Organizations” in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice. Haley’s research centers on understanding undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences in student affairs and other co-curricular higher education contexts.

Sanford Student, assistant professor in CEHD’s School of Education, has published several articles. They include “Vertical scaling with moderated nonlinear factor analysis” in the Journal of Educational Measurement and “Applying Bayesian checks of cancellation axioms for interval scaling in limited samples” in Behavior Research Methods, with W. Read. Student specializes in measurement, psychometrics and quantitative methods.

The Global Methane Pledge – launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in 2021 – commits signatories to reduce anthropogenic methane emissions by at least 30% from 2020 levels by 2030. To date, 159 countries have signed on. According to a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware published in the journal Science, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment based at the London School of Economics, the National Bank of Belgium and Duke University, this global action to cut methane emissions would pay for itself six times over. James Rising, associate professor at UD, said, "What makes this study so exciting is that it brings together our understanding of long-term climate change, including tipping points and mitigation, with action on short-lived greenhouse gases. By acting now on methane, we get immediate benefits and avoid centuries of damage." Rising’s role in the study was to help lead the development of the integrated assessment model, called META, used to quantify costs and benefits in the study. For more information on the paper, visit the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment website.

Honors

Rebecca Wilson, program coordinator for human services and human relations administration in CEHD, and Kayla Hayes, a graduate student in CEHD’s M.S. in human development and family sciences program, were both selected as a “Most Valuable Professor” (MVP) by football student athletes. They were recognized with other MVPs at UD’s Homecoming football game on Nov.r 8.

In Memoriam

James Glancey, professor emeritus in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Engineering, passed away on Oct. 26, 2025.

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