We are proud to note the many achievements of the Human Development and Environmental Studies faculty during the last year.

External funding enabled the IUP Child and Family Studies Program to offers classes for early care and education practitioners in 2009.

Two faculty members of the Child and Family Studies Program, Department of Human Development and Environmental Studies, are working with the staff of the IUP Early Care and Education Program to implement aspects of the internationally renowned Reggio Emilio Early Education Philosophy.

Family and Consumer Sciences major Patricia Zartman has been awarded a registration scholarship to attend the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America National Cluster Meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., November 14–16, 2008.

The Human Development and Environmental Studies Department is again sponsoring a cultural/educational tour to Europe. This ten-day tour to Spain, France, Monaco, and Italy will take place May 5–15, 2009 (departing after Spring graduation).

The Department of Human Development and Environmental Studies is sponsoring a cultural/educational tour of Spain, France, Monaco, and Italy at a lower price for early registration.

Sally McCombie was one of thirty U.S. delegates to the one hundredth celebration of the International Federation of Home Economics at the XXI World Congress.