Meghan Biery

Oct 2, 2024 | udel.edu | Jessica Henderson |Sophonie Milord |Meghan Biery

DNEA’s first responder training program is led by Alisha Fletcher, a licensed clinical social worker and director of the DNEA in CDS, and Sawchenko, a DNEA training coach. Fletcher first met Sawchenko, a former social worker and retired Delaware State trooper, through her work for CDS and immediately recognized his passion for educating his colleagues about individuals with disabilities.

Oct 2, 2024 | udel.edu | Sophonie Milord |Meghan Biery |Jessica Henderson

Faculty shared their reflections:Teomara (Teya) Rutherford, associate professor of learning sciences, School of Education:  “I was one of Ray's advisers during his master's and Ph.D., and he worked as a research assistant on a number of projects with our team. "Ray had great ideas and delivered them with enthusiasm.

Jun 12, 2024 | udel.edu | Katie Peikes |Christopher A. Vito |Adam Thomas |Meghan Biery

Pautler, the Sparks graduate who got an interview for an environmental contract job before she even sent in her resume, admired Sparks for the ways he always promoted his students and helped them get recognition in the soil science field. “Dr. Sparks instilled a good work ethic in the members of his lab,” Pautler said.

Jun 11, 2024 | udel.edu | Meghan Biery |Kelli Murray

Since 2009, the University of Delaware’s First Year Seminar Program has shared the Common Reader program that provides first-year undergraduates an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation with fellow students and begin sharing in the intellectual life of the entire University community. The Common Reader for fall 2024 is I Never Thought of It That Way: How To Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations In Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman.

Sep 14, 2023 | udel.edu | Christopher A. Vito |Kelly Bachman |Michele Walfred |Meghan Biery

UD Police regularly engage in crisis and emergency-response training exercises and simulations in compliance with the federal Clery Act. This summer’s three-day exercise was UD Police’s first training on this scale in several years. The significance of these exercises has grown in recent years. A mass shooting event, by definition, is an incident in which the lives of four or more victims are claimed through gun violence.