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Twelve high school teams from across Delaware tested their financial literacy skills at the 16th annual Delaware Personal Finance Challenge, hosted by the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship and sponsored by the Delaware Council on Economic Education in partnership with Bank of America.
Educators from across southern Delaware gathered at the Carter Partnership Center at Owens Campus in Georgetown, Delaware, for an engaging evening of hands-on professional learning hosted by the Center for Economic Education & Entrepreneurship.
A UD grad student is completing a dual Biology Ph.D. and MBA in Lerner College, and also became the first student to complete Lerner’s new Generative AI for Business graduate certificate program.
UD experts Thomas Bridges, Jorge Soares and Erin Yetter, professors of economics, share insights on how tariff policies impact everyday life and the broader economy.
Yu Zhu, Jared Sharpe, and Xiao Fang will use large language models (LLMs) to act like customers, hence significantly saving time and money, in their upcoming research.
This April, Delaware celebrated the 27th annual Teach Children to Save Day, a national financial literacy initiative coordinated locally by the UD’s Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Delaware Bankers Association and the Delaware Financial Education Alliance.
Erica Scripture, MAEEE class of 2025, is an accomplished educator who has earned significant recognition in her field. She is currently a teacher at Statesboro High School, which is a part of Bulloch County Schools. She shared the opportunities that MAEEE has provided for her and what makes this program unique.
Joey Running, MAEEE class of 2023, is an accomplished business instructor who has earned significant recognition in the field. She currently serves as a business educator at West Albany High School and emphasizes the importance of supporting other educators teaching personal finance with current, engaging, up-to-date resources.
Kathleen Cusack, MAEEE class of 2025, is an accomplished economics educator who has earned significant recognition in her field. She currently serves as a Curriculum Specialist for Econiful, and shared the opportunities that MAEEE has provided her with and how this experience shaped her career.
Excited chatter filled Clayton Hall as more than 400 middle and high school students from across Delaware gathered for the spring session of the Siegfried Youth Leadership Program (SYLP), a semiannual conference hosted at the University of Delaware.

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