# News & Events ## Latest News [### SEED Lab alum Jonathan Seiden joins Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor ](/news/2025/08/seed-lab-alum-jonathan-seiden-joins-vanderbilt-university-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... ![jonathan](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/jonathan.jpg?itok=t3G2avuR) [### New paper from Doctoral Student Kristen Hinckley explores how caregivers in rural Peru support early learning and responsive caregiving ](/news/2025/08/new-paper-doctoral-student-kristen-hinckley-explores-how-caregivers-rural-peru-support) 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... ![kristen](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/kristen.png?h=c19f18fb&itok=ZL36rDJC) [### Doctoral student Kenji Kitamura awarded grant for study on curiosity and learning in Nepal's classrooms ](/news/2025/06/doctoral-student-kenji-kitamura-awarded-grant-study-curiosity-and-learning-nepals) 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... ![nepalteam](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/nepalteam.jpg?h=b2a3f32a&itok=2rMdhSMY) [### New paper from Professor Dana McCoy highlights importance of FOLD skills in early childhood ](/news/2025/02/new-paper-professor-dana-mccoy-highlights-importance-fold-skills-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... ![streetlight](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/streetlight.png?h=d50d7bad&itok=SZEio94r) [### Recent SEED Lab graduate Jorge Cuartas appointed Assistant Professor at NYU ](/news/recent-seed-lab-graduate-jorge-cuartas-appointed-assistant-professor-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)... ![jorge2](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/jorge2.png?itok=_DeXhVD-) [### Doctoral student Kenji Kitamura awarded grants to support research on children's curiosity in Nepal ](/news/doctoral-student-kenji-kitamura-awarded-grants-support-research-childrens-curiosity-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... ![kkitamura](/sites/g/files/omnuum3996/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/kkitamura.jpg?itok=r3i8rbD1) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/news)