Fall 2022

Elizabeth Handley, PhD – The long-term impact of exposure to child maltreatment on mental and physical health (November 21)

Phil Fisher, PHD – Cairns Capstone Lecture – The Wellbeing of Young Children and Families: COVID-19 and Beyond (November 16)

Nim Tottenham, PhD – Development of Emotion Regulation Neurobiology & Parental Care (November 7)

Kristin Bernard – Empowering Parents to Promote Child Well-being: Integrating Neurobiological & Neighborhood-level Approaches (October 24)

Kierra Sattler – Risk and Resilience in the Context of Child Neglect: Examining the Differential Impact of Protective Factors (October 17)

Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, PhD – Threat, racialization, and uncertainty: How a hostile immigration climate can affect well-being in Latinx children, parents and schools. (October 3)

Dr. Samantha Schilling – Trauma in the Lives of Children and Youth: Current research directions across diverse disciplines, contexts, and methodologies. (September 19)

Dr. Betsy Bledsoe – Community Based Participatory Research Partnerships to Support Maternal and Child Wellbeing in Diverse Rural Communities: Lessons Learned in Early Partnership (September 12)

Dr. Anka Roberto – Integration of a family centered, developmentally grounded EMDR approach for children, adolescents, and their caregivers (August 29)

Dr. Ilana Berman – Addressing the Impact of Adversity across the Lifespan: Understanding Mechanisms & Interventions (August 22, 2022)

Spring 2021

Dr. Cynthia Garcia Coll – Culture and Child Development: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (May 3, 2021)

Dr. Onnie Rogers – Situating Human Development in the Sociopolitical Context (April 12, 2021)

Dr. Josi Bañales – “We Gotta Do Better”: Adolescents’ Beliefs, Feelings, and Actions Towards Racism (March 29, 2021)

Dr. Mayra Bámaca-Colbert, Dr. Glorisa Canino, and Dr. Shawn Jones -Discrimination, Context, and Health Panel (March 22, 2021)

Dr. Qi Wang – Causes and Consequences of Memory Development: Perspectives Through a Cultural Lens (March 15, 2021)

Dr. Adam Hoffman – Considering Development in Indian Country: A Look with the Cherokee Indians (March 8, 2021)

Dr. Dana McCoy – Um compasso para aprender: Adapting and evaluating a large-scale social emotional learning program in Brazilian primary schools (March 1, 2021)

Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer – Diverse Paths to Well-being, Resiliency and High-Vulnerability: Interrogating Du Boisian Insights Instrumental to Developmental Science (February 22, 2021)

Dr. Barbara Rogoff – Learning as a Cultural Process: Insights from Mayan Families (February 8, 2021)

Dr. Sam Putnam – Parent-Reported Temperament: Structure, Stability and Cultural Correlates (February 1, 2021)

Fall 2020

Dr. Hudson Santos – The Placenta-Brain Axis, Omics Signatures, and Child Developmental Outcomes (November 16, 2020)

Dr. Edith Chen – Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Costs of Upward Mobility (November 9, 2020)

Dr. Vanessa Volpe – Frontiers in Structural Racism Research for a Public Psychology of Health Equity (November 2, 2020)

Dr. Melissa Clark – Should Surveys Go the Way of the Dinosaur? (October 26, 2020)

Dr. Tom O’Connor – An Update on the Developmental Science of Developmental Programming (October 19, 2020)

Dr. Cheryl Giscombe – Lessons from Foremothers?: Psychosocial and Contextual Factors that Link Superwoman Schema Development and Increased Risk for Health Inequities Among African American Women (October 5, 2020)

Dr. Ron Seifer – Modern Methods in Developmental Science (September 21, 2020)

Dr. Birdie Shirtcliff – Cutting-edge biobehavioral methods for developmental scientists: Prospects and Pitfalls for noninvasive biospecimens (September 14, 2020)

Dr. Koraly Perez-Edgar – Temperament in Context: How the Individual and the Environment together shape Socioemotional Trajectories (August 31, 2020)

Dr. Ayse Belger – Translational Multimodal Assessments for Neurodevelopmental Research (August 17, 2020)

Spring 2020

Dr. Karen Quigley – Allostasis and Interoception: Keys to the Brain-Body Connection (March 2, 2020)

Dr. Staci Bilbo – Neuroimmune Interaction in Neurodevelopment: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorder (February 24, 2020)

Dr. Katie Ehrlich – How Does the Social World Shape Health Across the Lifespan? (February 17, 2020)

Dr. Bridget Callaghan – The Effect of Early Experiences on the Mind, Brain, and Body (February 3, 2020)

Dr. Carol Cheatham- Nutrigenetics and Nutrition: Shaping Cognition from Conception to Senescence