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Alumnus Earns Distinguished Early Career Research Award
UF College of Education Alumnus Brian Boyd has been selected for prestigious national honors from the Council for Exceptional Children for his outstanding research. Boyd won the 2016 Distinguished Early Career Research Award. The honor recognizes scholars who have...
UF Scholars Contribute to National Meeting in Research Innovations in Early Intervention
More than a dozen faculty, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students affiliated with the UF Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies recently contributed to a national conference focused on sharing innovative research for the benefit of children...
Expert in Biostatistics, Metabolic Syndrome joins ICHP and Anita Zucker Center
When both adult and pediatric patients come to their checkups with a certain nexus of problems – obesity, high blood pressure, high glucose levels, low “good” cholesterol, and high triglycerides – most doctors know they are on the road for increased risk of...
International Collaboration
These are some of the countries we have collaborated with to share our research-based knowledge in Embedded Instruction: New Zealand – EI team members are currently collaborating with colleagues at the Massey University to explore intentional teaching practices in...
Building Capacity
A young mom at the airport was on her cell phone. Her 4-month-old infant in a stroller was crying — obviously hungry. As the baby’s stress level and crying escalated, she pulled a bottle out of the diaper bag and propped it in her baby’s mouth, continuing with her...
Supporting Interactions
Sandra Dodgens was taking a break from being a foster parent after the heartbreak of losing a child with cerebral palsy, when a social worker called her about a pair of 3-year-old twins in critical need. It was in the late 1990s. The previous foster parent had them...
Publications
Anita Zucker Center Overview Brochure (pdf)
Anita Zucker Center Progress Report 2017 (pdf)
Anita Zucker Center Case for Support (pdf)
The Early Years – UF Explore Magazine Summer 2015 (pdf)
Solutions Seekers: Anita Zucker Center Researchers Aim to
Transform Development and Learning in Early Childhood (pdf)