Upcoming Events

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
MRI Open House.
5:30–7:00 pm. Free and open to the public
170 University Drive, CDH Health Center, Amherst.
The state-of-the-art human bioimaging facility operated by Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and used for research by the UMass Amherst community, will hold an open house for campus faculty, the general public and referring physicians. This facility is well-equipped for non-invasive analyses of tissue function, including but not limited to brain, muscle, and joints using magnetic resonance imaging or MRI (both structural and functional, i.e., fMRI) and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques. Read more...
Note: Campus researchers may apply for pilot research grants to use the facility through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Snap Peas Photovoice Project Reception with Dr. Krista Harper
6:00–8:00 pm. Free and open to the public
Hawks-Hayden Community Room, Meekins Library, 2 Williams St., Williamsburg, MA
Photovoice research places cameras in the hands of community members so that they themselves document their concerns and perspectives. UMass Amherst intern, Lee Ellen Reed, working with Fertile Ground Director Catherine Sands (also a graduate student at the Center for Public Policy and Administration) and Anthropology Professor Krista Harper, coached fifth grade students on documenting and reporting about Fertile Ground garden and local foods educational programs this past spring. An exhibition of student-made photographs will be on display through June 30.

June 9-12
Summer Methodology Workshop
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
Instructor Daniel Nagin, professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Families in collaboration with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.

June 23-27
Hierarchical Linear Models I
Instructor: Dr. Aline Sayer, associate professor of psychology and Methodology Program Director at the Center for Research on Families
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Families in collaboration with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.

July 15-17
Modeling Diary and Dyadic Data
Instructors: Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Psychology, University of Delaware; Dr. Niall Bolger, Psychology, Columbia University
Workshop is for social psychologists, family and medical sociologists, gerontologists, social workers, communication researchers, and researchers of marketing and organizational behavior.
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Families

Thursday–Friday, October 30–31, 2008
Conference: Women and Work: Choices and Constraints
Explore key workplace challenges for women in the 21st century by reconsidering the notion of 'opting out.'
Keynote address: Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law (evening of October 30).
Click here for details, panel topics and presenters, and registration information.
Sponsored by the Center for Research on Families