CRF Events 2006
September 2006
LECTURE: September 11 - 4:00 p.m., 204 Tobin Hall
Dr. ALISON FLEMING
Chair, Neurobiology, University of Toronto at Mississauga
"Psychobiology of Maternal Behavior: What the rat model can tell us about human mothering"
Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Psychology Department Colloquia, Center for Research on Families and Center for Neuroendocrine Studies.
LECTURE: September 25th - 4:00 p.m., Campus Center
Dr. JULIE SMITH
Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences
"The Economics of Breastfeeding and the Market for Mothers' Milk"
Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Department of Economics, Department of Resource Economics and the Center for Research on Families. A paper by Julie Smith on "Mothers Milk and Markets" may be found here.
October 2006
CONFERENCE: October 13-15, 2006
The New Methods for the Analysis of Family and Dyadic Processes Conference
For more details on conference presentations and poster sessions click here.
October 2006
LECTURE: Thursday, October 26th at 4:00 p.m., Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union
Dr. FRANK FURSTENBERG, Jr.
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania and Center for Population Studies
" Destinies of the Disadvantaged: Teenage Childbearing and Public Policy"
For more information click here.
December 2006
Friday, December 8th at 7:00 p.m., Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St.
"The Motherhood Manifesto"
A Documentary Film about Motherhood in America
For more information go to Mother Woman Inc.
April 2006
LECTURE: Thursday, April 12th at 4:00 p.m., 620 Thompson Hall
ANN C. CROUTER
Pennsylvania State University
Professor of Human Development; Director,
Social Science Research Institute; Director, Consortium for Children, Youth, and Families
"The long arm of the job: Implications for families"
LECTURE: Thursday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m., Campus Center
MAGGIE PHARRIS, RN, PhD and AVONNE A. YANG, B.S.N., RN
College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota and ECPI College of Technology, North Carolina
"The flutter of a butterfly and the ripple in the water: Addressing health disparities through community based collaborative action research"
