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Special Education Distinguished Professor Emerita Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Mar 11, 2026
Mary T. Brownell, Ph.D. was recently announced as the 2026 Council for Exceptional Children Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. This award recognizes a CEC member who has made continued, sustained, and impactful contributions to the field of...
UF Early Childhood Policy Institute Supports 24 Graduate Students Visiting State Capitol
Mar 5, 2026
In its second annual iteration, the UF Early Childhood Policy Institute brought 24 graduate students from across UF programs (from early childhood to ed leadership and policy to other programs outside of the College of Education) to Tallahassee for a day of meeting...
School Psychology Doctoral Student, Kira Alqueza, receives University-level Emerging Scholar Award
Mar 5, 2026
SESPECS School Psychology doctoral candidate, Kira Alqueza, has been named a winner of the Association for Academic Women’s (AAW) Emerging Scholar Award for her dissertation, titled Psychiatric Rehospitalization Among Adolescent Service Users: A Foucauldian Discourse...
SESPECS Professor named Co-Editor of prestigious journal
Oct 10, 2025
Special Education Professor Matt Burns has been named Co-Editor of the journal Remedial and Special Education (RASE) RASE “offers interdisciplinary articles that bridge the gap between theory and practice involving the education of individuals for whom typical...
SESPECS and College of Education Professors receive Echo360 Innovator Award
Oct 3, 2025
Professors Tara Mathien and Lori Dassa attended the invitation only EchoExperience 2025 to share the work the UF College of Education has been doing around personalized learning and utilizing the GoReact/AI Advanced platform. They shared innovations currently being...
SESPECS Faculty receive US Department of Education grant Project DECODE 2.0
Sep 28, 2025
Project DECODE 2.0 is a personnel preparation grant that supports special education and school psychology scholars' development of interdisciplinary expertise in evidence-based academic assessment and intervention for students with dyslexia and other Specific Learning...
UFLI Faculty receive $2 million grant from US Department of Education
Sep 3, 2025
UFLI Faculty receive $2 million grant from US Department of Education The University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI), in partnership with Project Read AI and New York City Public Schools received a $2,000,000 grant from the ETechM² Program—Stepping-Up Technology...