Winter 2010

New Grants Fund Transdisciplinary Teams to Tackle Tough Questions.  Elaine Wethington is co-investigator on three new grants which address different research questions, but all have something in common… they involve established experts from multiple disciplines coming together to tackle tough problems in health care.
workshop image Learning More About How Young Children Learn.  That is Tamar Kushnir’s passion. She has been awarded two new grants that will build our understanding of the mechanisms of learning in young children with important implications for the study of cognitive development as well as for early childhood education and parenting.
workshop image NIH Grant Funds New Institute for Women in Science.  Wendy Williams and Steve Ceci receive an award for a new institute with the aim of better understanding and untimately changing recruitment and training practices that limit careers for women in science.

More Stories

National Institute on Aging Grant Funds Pain Management for NYC Seniors

Researchers Develop Simple Tools to Predict Cognitive Decline in Aging

Conference Investigates Best Ways to Translate Research into Policy and Practice

Investigators Look for Language Changes that Could Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease

CITY Project's Eco-Meal Challenge Goes to the White House

James Garbarino to present opening keynote at CYFAR 2010

Nurse Visits to Pregnant Mothers Bring Benefits to Daughters Years Later

NYS AYD Partnership Reaching Out to New Audiences

CITY Project Teen Leaders Plan Haitian Relief Project

Grant to Aid Study of How Childhood Poverty Affects the Brain

Resources

Ricciuti Lecture: Whether Environments Matter More for Children in Poverty

Making Informed Adaptations to Evidence-based Sex Education Programs

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: The Benefits of Self-Regulation

Bronfenbrenner Conference on Translating Research into Policy and Practice

 NICHD Speaker: Translation in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Cutting Edge: Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence

More Multimedia from Human Development Outreach & Extension

Research Brief: The Cutting Edge: Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence

New Evidence-Based Living website - bridging the gap between research and real life

New Book: Women Opt Out of Math Fields for Flexibility

Events

Training for the Retirees in Service to the Environment (RISE) Program.

CYFAR 2010, May 4-7, 2010 in San Fransisco

Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Training