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Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health: Science, Public Policy, and Controversy
January 28, 2016
Isolating Study & Community-Level Patterns Using Meta-Analytic Techniques: How Stigma Relates to HIV Prevention Interventions for African Americans
April 27, 2012
Psychopathology and Stigma, Empirical Science and Narrative: The Need for Integration
March 24, 2016
Equity in Breastfeeding: Where we have been? Where should we be heading?
February 10, 2016
Mediation and Moderation Using PROCESS in SPSS
December 11, 2015
How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal
December 8, 2015
Public Engagement Project: "Want to Reach the General Public?"
November 10, 2015
Effects of Age and Hearing Ability on Perception of Spanish-accented English
November 9, 2015
Methodology Seminar: “Recidivism and Recovery: Analyzing Event History Data Using R”
October 30, 2015
Social Work & Social Justice Education Symposium
October 28, 2015
DEADLINE: Graduate Student Awards in Family Research
October 23, 2015
Youth Politics in Putin's Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs
October 6, 2015
Public Engagement Project: "Making Your Research Public"
October 5, 2015
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 22, 2015
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June 26, 2015
Models for Categorical Outcomes Using Stata (Cancelled)
June 15, 2015
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June 19, 2015
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
June 9, 2015
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June 12, 2015
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 1, 2015
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June 3, 2015
New Worlds of Adoption: Launching into Adulthood
April 17, 2015
Family and the Reproduction of Political Inequality
April 8, 2015
Putting the Education Back in “Educational” Apps--CANCELLED
March 27, 2015
The Development of Multisensory Communication Skills in Infancy
March 5, 2015
RESCHEDULED! Public Engagement: "How to Get Your Research Out There"
February 10, 2015
Biomonitoring, Chemical Exposures and Human Health
February 5, 2015
Couple-Focused Prevention at the Transition to Parenthood
January 29, 2015
How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal
December 5, 2014
How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal
December 5, 2014
Book Reading: Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
November 12, 2014
Orientation to Add Health: A Data Goldmine for Interdisciplinary Research
October 9, 2014
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 9, 2014
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June 13, 2014
Models for Categorical Outcomes Using Stata: Specification, Estimation, and Interpretation
June 16, 2014
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June 20, 2014
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
June 24, 2014
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June 27, 2014
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 2, 2014
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June 4, 2014
Coping with Menopause: Hot Flashes, Sleep Disruptions and Cognitive Impairment
April 24, 2014
Analyzing Family and Dyadic Data Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): Cancelled
February 14, 2014
Welfare State and Gender Stratification Across Classes
April 22, 2014
Language and the Early Development of Emotion Regulation
February 27, 2014
New Worlds of Adoption Conference: Helping Families Overcome Early Adversity
April 11, 2014
Modeling Dyadic Attunement: Using HLM to Model Relationship Process Over Time
November 21, 2013
Methodological Innovations in Psychological Science: "PROCESS: Review of a New Tool for Moderation and Mediation Analyses"
December 5, 2013
Methodogical Innovations in Psychological Science: "Complications in Mixed Methods Research"
October 17, 2013
Methodogical Innovations in Psychological Science: "Maternal Regulation of Child Biobehavioral Stress" [Postponed]
October 10, 2013
Development and Testing of Supportive Care Interventions for Patients with Medical Illness
September 26, 2013
The American Dream Is Not Dreamt in English Only: Latin@s and Linguistic Intolerance in the USA
October 1, 2013
U.S. Food Insecurity Then and Now: How Far Have We Come Since the 1980s?
September 19, 2013
The Role of Parents in Supporting Their Children's Achievements
October 15, 2013
The Workflow of Data Analysis using Stata
June 17, 2013
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June 21, 2013
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
June 25, 2013
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June 28, 2013
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 3, 2013
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June 5, 2013
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 10, 2013
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June 14, 2013
Graphing Multilevel Models in Excel
April 22, 2013
The UMass Public Engagement Project Presents "The Engaged Campus: Giving Back to the Commonwealth and Beyond"
April 26, 2013
STEMing the Tide: How Female Experts and Peers Act as "Social Vaccines" for Girls and Women in STEM
February 28, 2013
Influences of Childhood Adversity on Health in Midlife: First Findings of a Longitudinal Study
March 28, 2013
Migrant Day Laborers, Neoliberalism, and the Struggle for Time
March 18, 2013
Drowning in Data? The Workflow of Data Analysis
July 7, 2013
Racism and Health: Findings, Questions and Directions
March 5, 2013
Can Meanings be Modeled? Exploring a Neural Networks Model of Culture
February 21, 2013
Dietary Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors for Cancer Prevention
February 1, 2013
New Worlds of Adoption: Contact Between Adoptive & Birth Families: What Works?
April 11, 2013
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April 12, 2013
Building a Network that Extends into the Worlds you Hope to Influence
December 11, 2012
Learning How to Communicate Ideas Effectively to People Who Aren’t In Your Iwn field
November 13, 2012
Standardization and conformity: A Critique of New Zealand’s Early Childhood Neoliberal Politics
November 28, 2012
Family Policies, Employment and Poverty among Partnered and Single Mothers Cross-Nationally
September 24, 2012
Mayor Alex Morse
September 27, 2012
The Honorable Madeleine Kunin to Speak about Next Phase of Women’s Progress
September 18, 2012
Analyzing Incomplete Multilevel Data with HLM
May 18, 2012
Will I Ever Publish Again?...And Other Challenges for PIs.
May 9, 2012
How Does Sleep (or lack of it) Impact Your Life?
April 26, 2012
Isolating Study & Community-Level Patterns Using Meta-Analytic Techniques: How Stigma Relates to HIV Prevention Interventions for African Americans
April 27, 2012
Colloquium: A Call to Public Sociology: Inspiration and Insights from Sociological Images
March 27, 2012
I'm a PI, Now What? Workshop: Budgets
March 14, 2012
The Development of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: Experiential Canalization of Brain and Behavior
April 26, 2012
Integrating Social-Emotional and Character Development into the Mission of All Schools: No Alibis. No Excuses. No Exceptions
April 17, 2012
School Discipline and School Climate: Is SEL or SWPBS the Best Approach?
March 28, 2012
I'm a PI, Now What? Workshop: Research
February 10, 2012
Graduate and Undergraduate Student Grants and Awards Deadline: Feb 17, 2012
February 17, 2012
Family Research Scholars 2012-2013 Application Deadline
January 13, 2012
Can College Procedures Be More Family-Friendly?
May 3, 2012
New Worlds of Adoption: Navigating the Teen Years
March 30, 2012
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 11, 2012
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June 15, 2012
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data
June 19, 2012
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June 22, 2012
New England Workshop on Social Network Analysis
May 30, 2012
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June 1, 2012
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 4, 2012
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June 7, 2012
Smart Policy: Using the Science of Early Brain Development to Inform Child Welfare System Programs and Practice
November 8, 2011
Studying Stories That Can Change Policy
October 26, 2011
How to Make Friends and Influence Policy: Working with State and Federal Policymakers
October 28, 2011
I'm a PI: Now What?
September 30, 2011
Inflammation and Its Discontents: The Role of the Immune System in the Pathophysiology of Depression
November 3, 2011
Early Environments, Stress, and the Eco-logics of Inflammation
October 27, 2011
Making Sense of the Role of Culture in Child Well-Being and Child Maltreatment
September 20, 2011
Modeling Diary Data with HLM
June 28, 2011
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July 1, 2011
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 13, 2011
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June 17, 2011
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 6, 2011
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June 9, 2011
Researching the Connected World: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
June 1, 2011
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June 3, 2011
The Causes and Consequences of Food Insecurity Among Refugees Resettled in the USA
April 28, 2011
Resiliency In The Face of Adversity: The Role Of Stressor Controllability And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex
April 14, 2011
Sleep in Aging and Dementia
May 5, 2011
Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation: The Imperative For A Family/Clinician Team
April 11, 2011
Journeys to the Altar: The Intimate Union Pattern of Low Income Urban and Rural Mothers
March 28, 2011
The High Price of Caring: You Can't Count it!
November 4, 2010
Modeling Diary Data with HLM
June 28, 2010
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July 1, 2011
Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
June 13, 2010
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June 17, 2010
Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
June 6, 2010
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June 9, 2010
Researching the Connected World: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
June 1, 2010
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June 3, 2010
Rethinking Immigration and the Family in the Age of Global Vertigo
April 6, 2010
Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity in Childhood
April 8, 2010
Workplace Flexibility For Low-Wage Workers: Benefits For Employees and Employers
April 13, 2010
The Dynamics of Information Processing in Infants: Eye-tracking and Neuroimaging
May 6, 2010
Spring Student Awards Deadline
March 17, 2017
Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
May 12, 2016
Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series: “New Worlds of Adoption: Navigating Contact between Adoptive and Birth Families from Placement to Adulthood"
February 22, 2016
Group-Based Trajectory Modeling for the Medical and Social Sciences
June 12, 2017
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June 14, 2017
Hierarchical Linear Modeling I: Introduction
June 26, 2017
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June 30, 2017
Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data: A Guide to Diary, Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessment Methods
June 5, 2017
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June 9, 2017
Public Engagement Project: Learn to Pitch Your Story
March 10, 2016
Public Engagement Project: History Communications in the 21st Century
March 4, 2016
How to Talk Like a Pirate: Introduction to the R Programming Language
April 22, 2016
Public Engagement Project: "Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis"
April 20, 2016
Using Community-Based Scholarship to Promote Health in An Emerging Latino Community
May 5, 2016
Open House: Healthy Development Initiative
June 9, 2016
Is Exercise Medicine? An Evolutionary Medical Perspective
October 6, 2016
"Ain't I A Woman?" and "I Am a Man": Intersectionality’s Travels from Black Feminist Theory to HIV Prevention and Sexuality Research with Black Men
November 3, 2016
Environmental Influences on Human Reproduction: Moving Beyond Individuals to Couples
December 5, 2016
The Environment of Childhood Poverty
September 12, 2016
Keynote Panel: Women, Incarceration and Carceral Feminism
September 20, 2016
Apply Now: Fall Student Awards
October 21, 2016
Apply Now: 2017 PEP Faculty Fellowship
November 21, 2016
What Counts? Including Public Engagement in Faculty Evaluation
November 7, 2016
Early-Life Chemical Exposures and Female Puberty-Related Outcomes in Animal Models
November 29, 2016
Universal Design For Learning 2017: A Framework Grows Up
February 16, 2017
METHODOLOGY SEMINAR--When Correlation Implies Causation: How to Remove Selection Bias in Observational Research
February 17, 2017
Regression Models for Categorical Outcomes: Specification, Estimation, and Interpretation
May 23, 2017
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May 26, 2017
Public Engagement Project: "The Conversation" Training
March 9, 2017
Building Blocks: Promoting Healthy Habits Through Child Care
March 2, 2017
From Scallywag to Sea Dog: Intermediate Graphing in R
April 21, 2017
Running a Successful Research Lab: Lessons from the Trenches
May 16, 2017
“Domestic Violence and Experiences of Muslim Women”
September 19, 2017
CRF Graduate Student Family Research: Fall Travel Awards
October 20, 2017
DACA Teach-In
September 19, 2017
CRF / ISSR Scholar Program Info Session
December 12, 2017
Socioeconomic Inequality and Children’s Brain Development
October 12, 2017
Lecture: "Why Do Humans Have Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Newborns?" Karen Rosenberg, University of Delaware
November 1, 2017
Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School
December 8, 2017
CANCELLED--Reducing Chemical Risks to Families: Linking the External Chemical Exposure to Biological Effects and Reduction in Adverse Health Outcomes
April 26, 2018
Is Cognitive Therapy Enduring or are Antidepressants Iatrogenic?
December 11, 2017
Jamie Rowen (FRS "17-'18) Presents at Four @ Four, Fall 2017
December 7, 2017
Making Research Matter: Sharing Insights on Public Engagement
February 2, 2018
Opportunities and Challenges: Using Market-based Approaches to Encourage High Quality Nursing Home Care
February 8, 2018
Student Research Awards Program: Applications due March 21st!
March 21, 2018
Student Grant Writing Program
February 23, 2018
Brown Bag Brunch: "Targeted Recruitment Using Facebook"
March 2, 2018
Knowing Your Risks: The Effect of Information Representation on Risk Literacy
April 10, 2018
Center for Health Equity Research Launch Event With Guest Speaker Dr. David Williams
April 26, 2018
Methodology Workshop: introduction to the Battelle Developmental Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-2)
May 4, 2018
The Power of Partnerships: Research Evidence and Strategies for Success
November 1, 2018
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Feinberg Series Keynote and Inaugural James Baldwin Lecture
September 20, 2018
Book Salon with Betsy Krause on Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion
October 17, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
October 9, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
October 22, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
November 5, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
November 14, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
November 26, 2018
Statistics in Social Sciences Reading Group
December 10, 2018
Domestic Workers Building Dignity and Power, Past and Present
November 1, 2018
TAY GAVIN LECTURE SERIES - The Complexity of Factors Influencing the Risk of Crash Injury in Adolescents and Young Adults
November 26, 2018
How to Prepare an ISSR or CRF Scholars Proposal
December 13, 2018
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON - Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Interventions for People Living with HIV/AIDS
February 14, 2019
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON - The Arrival of Social Science Genomics
February 28, 2019
How to Conduct a Meta-Analysis in the Social Sciences
February 15, 2019
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - Reflecting on the positive past: Effects on Stress and Decision Making
March 19, 2019
Survey Design: A primer to evaluate scale properties & questionnaire design
April 26, 2019
Proposal: Illustrating your grant proposal: strategic graphic design in grant applications for beginners
April 5, 2019
Public Engagement in the Age of Social Media
October 1, 2019
Why are Intersectional Resistance Alliances so Difficult to Build?
October 10, 2019
BRiDGE Scholar Series: Dr. Richard Prather
September 23, 2019
DevSci seminar, Heather Richardson, FRS '10, “Alcohol has Different Effects on the Developing Brain in Adolescent Male and Female Rats”
September 19, 2019
Film Screening: "Fire and Flood: Queer Resilience in an Era of Climate Change"
September 25, 2019
Trauma Series Workshop: Empowering Professionals & Paraprofessionals with P.R.I.S.E.
October 5, 2019
"I'm a PI, Now What?" AY 19-20 Series
October 25, 2019
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April 10, 2020
The Local Politics of Criminal Justice Reform
October 24, 2019
Center for Research on Families Open House
October 25, 2019
Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture- Get Better Faster: Intensive Trauma-Focused Psychotherapy
November 14, 2019
Item Response Theory (IRT) Seminar
November 15, 2019
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - MATERNAL MORTALITY: How big a problem is it?
December 5, 2019
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - Understanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in Pain and Pain Treatment
January 30, 2020
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - The Impact of Language Brokering on Mexican American Adolescent Immigrants and their Families
February 18, 2020
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - BEYOND OPIOIDS: Adolescents' Misuse of Four Prescription Drug Classes
February 20, 2020
Nurstory Film Festival
February 13, 2020
Public Engagement Project: OpEd Writing Workshop with Scholars Strategy Network
March 9, 2020
The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Cupcakes to Smartphones, the Mechanisms Underlying How Mindfulness Helps Change Habits
March 2, 2020
COVID-19's Impact on Students: A Discussion with Local Leaders
April 23, 2020
Virtual - Ordinary Magic: Improving Our Resiliency
April 22, 2020
Register Now! Stress Biomarkers Summer 2020 Virtual Workshop
June 22, 2020
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June 24, 2020
COVID-19: Social Scientists' Views on the Pandemic’s Impact & What Comes Next
June 9, 2020
#BlackInSTEM at UMass
August 5, 2020
Latent Class Analysis: Part 1
September 25, 2020
American Health Policy in 2020: A Pivotal Year for Change?
October 15, 2020
What Does the Earth Ask of Us?
September 30, 2020
What Can Implementation Science Do for You? Moving Health Care Innovations to the Real World
October 16, 2020
When I’m 64: Age Similarities and Differences in the Ways Emotional Events are Remembered
November 6, 2020
When Disaster Strikes: Response, Research, and Recovery
December 7, 2020
Dyadic Data Analysis
April 15, 2022
Stress Biomarkers Summer 2023 Virtual Workshop
June 20, 2023
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June 23, 2023
Introduction to Dyadic Data Analysis
July 12, 2023
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July 14, 2023
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - Insights for Relationships and Health from Latino Culture
September 26, 2022
TAY GAVIN ERICKSON LECTURE SERIES - Advancing Equitable, Risk-Appropriate, Patient-Centered Maternity Care
September 14, 2022
Seen, Heard, Valued: A Charge to Black Women to Own The Power of Their Voices
April 26, 2023
Black Women and Maternal Health Inequities: Addressing the Role of Racism
May 4, 2023
Your Voice, Your Power 90 minute Workshop
April 26, 2023
Orchestrating Immunological Symphony in Type 2 Diabetes
October 24, 2023
The Evolutionary Epidemiology of Iron Deficiency
November 2, 2023
Generational Overlap: Changing Demography and Shared Lifetimes
November 16, 2023
Leveraging Diversity in Polygenic Risk Scores for Diabetes and Other Advances in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
December 1, 2023
CRF & ISSR Scholar Programs Information Session
December 11, 2023
Exercise Therapy for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
February 13, 2024
Tay Gavin Lecture Series: Dr. William Kraus
April 25, 2024
Tay Gavin Lecture Series: Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos
May 9, 2024
Methods Seminar: Intro to Complex Survey Designs: Incorporating Clustering, Stratification, and Weighting into Your Analyses
March 29, 2024
Methodology Seminar: Introducing the Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model
April 19, 2024
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