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Doctoral student Kenji Kitamura awarded grant for study on curiosity and learning in Nepal's classrooms

June 09, 2025

Kenji Kitamura, a SEED Lab member and HGSE doctoral student, has been awarded the Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Interdisciplinary Mind Grant for his research project, “From Curiosity to Learning in Classrooms in Nepal.” In...

SEED Lab alum Jonathan Seiden joins Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor

August 11, 2025

Dr. Jonathan Seiden, a 2025 graduate of HGSE and the SEED Lab, was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Policy in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. In addition to...

New paper from Doctoral Student Kristen Hinckley explores how caregivers in rural Peru support early learning and responsive caregiving

August 07, 2025

A new study led by Kristen Hinckley, Doctoral Student and member of the SEED lab, explores how caregivers in a rural Andean region of Peru, understand and practice responsive caregiving and early learning—two core components of the Nurturing Care...

New paper from Professor Dana McCoy highlights importance of FOLD skills in early childhood

February 06, 2025

A new article led by SEED Lab Director Dana McCoy and Northwestern Professor Terri Sabol uses findings from more than 300 studies published over the past 50 years to highlight the importance of children's FOLD skills. FOLD skills -- the "Foundations of...

SEED Lab members present on global monitoring of early childhood development

March 12, 2024

The Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) is a World Health Organization-led initiative to harmonize measurement of early childhood development internationally for children under the age of 3. Members of the SEED Lab, including doctoral students...

Doctoral student Kenji Kitamura awarded grants to support research on children's curiosity in Nepal

June 24, 2024

Kenji Kitamura, a doctoral student at the HGSE and a member of the SEED lab, has been awarded the Weatherhead Center Pre-dissertation Grant and the Harvard Asian Center Graduate Research Grant for the summer of 2024, for his research project, "An Emic...

New study published in JREE highlights challenges of supporting children's social-emotional needs

April 19, 2024

A recent paper led by Dr. Dana McCoy demonstrates the persistent challenges in delivering programming to impact students' social-emotional learning (SEL) needs in low-income communities in Brazil. The study, which was published in the Journal of Research...

Recent SEED Lab graduate Jorge Cuartas appointed Assistant Professor at NYU

July 25, 2024

Dr. Jorge Cuartas, a 2024 graduate of HGSE and the SEED Lab, will be joining the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University as an Assistant Professor, starting September 1st. He will direct the Catalyzing Action for Resilient Ecologies (CARE)...

Marta Dormal was invited as a Graduate Student Associate at DRCLAS

June 18, 2022

SEED lab member Marta Dormal was invited as a 2022-2023 Graduate Student Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University. Graduate Student Associate positions are designed to support a student’s...

Marta Dormal receives the 2022 Stone PhD Scholar Fellowship

August 31, 2022

HGSE doctoral student and SEED lab member Marta Dormal received one of the 10 fellowships awarded to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard for the academic year 2022-2023. The Stone Program in...

Jorge Cuartas receives two awards from the American Psychological Association

July 11, 2022

Doctoral candidate Jorge Cuartas recently received the Early Career Outstanding Paper Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) for his research paper "Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children" published in...

New research highlights children's care needs globally

May 01, 2022

A new paper published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health by SEED Lab members Dana McCoy, Jonathan Seiden, Jorge Cuartas, and Marcus Waldman shows that just one in four young children living in low- and middle-income countries were receiving...