Institute of Human Development and Social Change

Seminar Series Spring 2012

IHDSC Seminar Series Events

Spring 2012

Tuesday, January 24

Lisa Gennetian, Senior Research Director, Economic Studies, Brookings Institute

Title: "Running Out and Acting Out: Food Stamp Benefit Cycles and School Disciplinary Events among Chicago Public School Students"

Location: Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 4th Floor Payne Room

Time: 12pm-1:30pm

[Co-sponsored with Applied Psychology, PSI] 

Tuesday, March 6

Gary William Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor, Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University

Title: "Environment of Childhood Poverty"

Location: Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 4th Floor Payne Room

Time: 12pm-1:30pm

Wednesday, March 21

Nathan Fox, Professor, Institute Child Study, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Title: "Is there such a thing as too much control?: Temperamental links to social competence"

Location: Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, 1st Floor Lounge

Time: 12:00-1:30p.m

[Co-Sponsored with Applied Psychology, Developmental and PSI]

Tuesday, March 27

Spyros Konstantopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University

 

Title: "Teacher Effects Revisited: Do Classroom Composition, Class Size, and School Locality Matter?"

Location: Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 4th Floor Payne Room

Time: 12:00-1:30p.m

Wednesday, March 28

Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Title: "Equal Opportunity in an Age of Inequality"

Location: Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor

Time: 12:00-1:30p.m

 [Co-Sponsored with CASSR & Sociology] 

Tuesday, April 17

Stephanie Carlson, Associate Professor, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

Title: "Influences on Executive Function in Early Childhood: From Distal to Proximal"

Location: Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 4th Floor Payne Room

Time: 12pm-1:30pm

Wednesday, April 18

Philip Zelazo, Professor, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

Title: "Executive Function and the Developing Brain"

Location: Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, 1st Floor Lounge

Time: 12pm-1:30pm

[Co-sponsored with Applied Psychology] 

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