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SEED Lab Director Dana McCoy awarded SREE Early Career Award

February 26, 2021

Along with Dr. Matthew Kraft of Brown University, Dr. Dana McCoy was recently awarded the 2021 Society for Research in Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Early Career Award. The award is intended to recognize "early career scholars whose work has advanced rigorous research relevant to educational practice." Read more about the announcement here.

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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 Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy awards fellowships to current Harvard PhD students in the social sciences who will advance a...

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 Child Development. The Early Carer Outstanding Paper Award recognizes a graduate student or early career scientist, within seven years of Ph.D., who has published (or has...

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 independent research toward their PhD on topics related to Latin America.

Marta will use this position to advance research in the field of Early...

New research highlights children's care needs globally

May 1, 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 minimally adequate nurturing care prior to the COVID pandemic. The study, which uses data from more than 400,000 children, suggests that children are particularly in need of services that support their early learning and responsive caregiving. Read the full study... Read more about New research highlights children's care needs globally

SEED Lab Publishes Two New Studies in Child Development

September 3, 2021

Dr. McCoy and other members of the SEED Lab have recently published two articles in the journal Child Development related to children's wellbeing in global contexts. The first was co-authored with former doctoral student Emily Hanno and colleagues from FGV in Brazil. It presents the first-year effects of a social-emotional learning intervention, Programa Compasso, as implemented in primary schools in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although no...

CREDI team publishes commentary in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

April 13, 2021

SEED Lab and CREDI team members Dana McCoy, Jonathan Seiden, and Marcus Waldman -- alongside collaborator Günther Fink -- recently published a commentary in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The commentary reviews the state of the evidence on the CREDI, a set of measures for capturing early childhood development in diverse global settings. Click... Read more about CREDI team publishes commentary in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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