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On May 6, 2025, the Utah School Mental Health Collaborative (USMHC) and Mending Minds Village hosted the Youth Mental Health Advocacy Event at the Utah State Capitol, honoring National Children's Mental Health Awareness Month. With support from Voices for Utah Children, Live Like Sam, and WeBeWell, the event welcomed about 80 attendees, including parents, community members, and policymakers, to raise awareness and foster advocacy for youth mental health.

Lynne Zummo, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Curator of Learning Sciences at the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), has been awarded a Faculty Small Grant Program (FSGP) award from the VPR Office for her project, “Scaffolding Data Practices for Museum Learning: Deepening Experiences with Data, Evidence, and the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.”

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and One-U Responsible AI Initiative fellow Chenglu Li discusses advances in his AI-augmented Learning by Teaching to Enhance and Renovate Math Learning (ALTER-Math) project.

The College of Education is proud to share that Professor Keith Radley and Professor Aaron Fischer have been recognized on the list of “Top 50 School Faculty Scholars” through their contributions and representation to the field of school psychology.

The Utah School Mental Health Collaborative, an effort driven by the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the College of Education, is happy to share that they are teaming up with the Live Like Sam Foundation and WeBeWell.

The College of Education announces the appointment of Kirsten Butcher as Interim Associate Dean for Research, effective July 1, 2024. Butcher has served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs since July 1, 2023 and will continue on in this role through June, 2025.

AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) today announced David Stroupe, Ph.D., associate professor of STEM education and director of research of the USTEM Hub at the University of Utah, as the 2024 recipient of the AACTE Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award for Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Lynne Zummo, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, an Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program (AISL) grant to study learning around climate change at the landmark Natural History Museum of Utah exhibit “A Climate of Hope,” along with Co-PI and NHMU Exhibit Developer Lisa Thompson. Zummo holds a joint appointment at NHMU as the Curator of Learning Sciences.

This past June the park played host to a remarkable group of visitors: Utah educators participating in a groundbreaking professional development program called Learning to Observe: Unpacking the Development of Science Teacher Observational Expertise in Field Settings.

Dr. Tracy Dobie will be the Principal Investigator on a new National Science Foundation grant along with Co-Investigators (Co-Is) Dr. Lauren Barth-Cohen (EdPsych), Connor Warner (UITE), and Lynne Zummo (EdPsych). The project will address the challenge of supporting elementary teachers to enact culturally grounded mathematics and science pedagogy through teaching cases investigating equity issues in mathematics and science.

No doubt that the pandemic has reshaped all of our lives, both in the short and long term. Many are left wondering what the future holds for our teachers, students, and classrooms. When University of Utah magazine had that question, they reached out to one of the College of Education’s faculty members in the Department of Educational Psychology, Aaron Fischer.