Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series - 2007

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"

Tuesday, April 10th at 7:30 p.m.
174-76 Campus Center

Nurses Pharris and Yang will be speaking about their experience in community engagement in health among groups with women with health disparities, especially Hmong, African American and Latina women. This event is co-sponsored by The Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science, the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Nursing Expanding the Boundaries of Women's Health Initiative (funded by the US Health Services and Resources Administration), and the UMass Amherst Center for Research on Families.



ANN C. CROUTER, Ph.D.

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"

Thursday, April 12th at 4:00 p.m.
620 Thompson Hall

Ann C. Crouter is one of the nation's leading scholars on the interface of work and family. Her research has focused on the connections between parents' work conditions, family dynamics, and the development of children and adolescents. She has explored these issues with her long-time collaborator, Susan McHale, in the context of three longitudinal research studies focused on dual-earner families, all funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She currently collaborates on research to examine similar themes in ethnic minority families, as well as a large investigation of the work and family circumstances of low-income, rural parents, part of an NICHD-funded program project conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina and Penn State. Most recently, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NICHD, Crouter is co-directing a set of inter-related studies that closely examine the work-family connection for managers and employees in the hotel industry. In June, Dr. Crouter will become the next Dean of the College of Health and Human Development. For more information about Dr. Crouter's research click here.