UND College of Education & Human Development Research

NEWS  Dr. Pempho Chinkondenji won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 2024 Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on People of African Descent. Pempho received this award for her article titled, “Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: An Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi.” Each year with the Joyce Cain Award, […]

NEWS  Dr. Lee Ann Rawlins Williams was featured in UND Today about her recent article in The Conversation on Why Teachers Need, Deserve Mental Health Support. Dr. Williams writes about how, in a forthcoming paper about teacher experiences during the pandemic, she identified four benefits of prioritizing teacher mental health that create a more stable […]

NEWS  Dr. Harry Liu has earned the esteemed Early Career Scholar Award from AIESEP 2024 and is preparing to present two projects at the AIESEP Annual Meeting in Jyväskylä, Finland, from May 13-17th, 2024. AIESEP, the Association Internationale des Écoles Supérieures d’Éducation Physique, stands as the International Organization for Physical Education in Higher Education, with […]

NEWS  Dr. Pempho Chinkondenji has won the 2023-2024 Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation from the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES). The award is conferred on an outstanding Ph.D. or Ed.D. dissertation that manifests academic excellence; originality; methodological, theoretical, and empirical rigor; and that deals with issues of social justice and equity […]

NEWS  Dr. D’Amico Pawlewicz is one of the editors of Made by History which has been published through the Washington Post and starting in September will have a new home in TIME Magazine. MbH is a national op-ed column written by professional historians that helps our very broad public readership use history to make sense […]

NEWS  Dr. Renuka de Silva is the newest endowed faculty member in CEHD as the latest recipient of the Hopper Danley Faculty Fellowship, which “supports innovative research activities and pursuit of extramural funding for research”. She was acknowledged at this year’s Faculty Investiture Ceremony and Celebration on August 23.  Dr. Rachel Navarro (PI) and Norman […]

NEWS  The College held the 2023 CEHD Research Conference on Tuesday May 16 (delayed due to blizzard on April 6). The event was held at the UND Memorial Union ballroom and included 12 talks, 35 posters, and the presentation of the three CEHD Research Awards (see below). The event was well-attended given the time of […]

NEWS  Dr. Katherine Nelson (Assistant Professor, School Counseling) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to address critical school-based mental health needs in North Dakota. Along with UND CEHD co-PIs Dr. Kristen Votava (Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education), and Dr. Tanis Walch (Associate Professor of Public Health), the award of $6 million […]

NEWS  Dr. Radomir (Ray) Mitic (EHBS, Higher Education) was recently interviewed for an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education regarding his recent paper and work in Russia. The article is entitled, Slamming the Door on Scholarship: War and politics could make on-the-ground study of China and Russia difficult, if not impossible.   Dr. Caitlin Brecklin […]

NEWS  Dr. Tanis Walch (Public Health Education) is this year’s co-recipient of the Founders Day UND Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research and Creative Activity Award. This award recognizes an outstanding interdisciplinary team of UND faculty members (Isaac Karikari, Bret Weber, Tanis Walch, Ashley Bayne, and Carenlee Barkdull) who have made a collaborative and significant impact with […]