Cliodynamics of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin
Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Social and political turbulence in the United States and Western Europe has been rising over the past decade. My research, which combines analysis of historical data with the tools of complexity science, has identified the deep structural forces that work to undermine societal stability and resilience to internal and external shocks. Here I look beneath the surface of day- to-day contentious politics and...
Catalyzing Communities to Promote Child Health and Prevent Obesity: A Systems Approach
Where we are | what we know about the underlying socioecological risk factors of lifestyle behaviors and obesity in children
How we are evolving | from individual to structural and systems factors: using systems science to design complex, responsive, equity-oriented intervention strategies
Where do we go from here | understanding and addressing interrelated structural drivers of obesity through...
The Science of the Human-Animal Bond and Adolescent Well-Being
How do companion animal relationships contribute to our scientific understanding of what goes right in the lives of youth? Dr. Mueller will discuss the science of human-animal interactions and adolescent development, and how we can understand the role of the human-animal bond in promoting youth well-being.
Dr. Megan Mueller is an Associate Professor of human-animal interaction at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. She is also director of the Pets and Well-...
This Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture will happen during the Department of Nurition Annual Virginia A. Beal Dinner.
Dr. Barcelona will explore the epidemiology of perinatal health disparities, focusing on the impact of race and racism in research and healthcare. She will highlight how racism leads to worse health outcomes for women of color, particularly Indigenous, Native American, and Black women. Dr. Barcelona will share findings from her research on how structural racism at the individual, institutional, and community levels fuels these inequities.
Social relationships can enhance the quality of life by conferring higher levels of subjective well-being, greater resilience against adverse circumstances, and better health. To obtain these benefits, humans must navigate a complex social world where self-interest must be balanced by interest in others. In this talk, Dr. Campos asserts that Latino contexts are of theoretical and applied interest for studying these questions and present a...
How can we best understand and respond to environmental emergency-related contamination events such as hurricanes in Texas and North Carolina, large-scale chemical fires and flooding?
The complexities of hazardous chemical exposures, potential adverse health impacts, and the need to rapidly and comprehensively evaluate complex mixtures call for novel approaches. This presentation will describe the efforts of the Superfund Research Center at Texas A&M...
It can take 17 years to turn 14 percent of research innovations to the benefit of patient care, potentially wasting millions of dollars of scientific investments into effective interventions that could ultimately benefit patients. Implementation scienceis the study of strategies that support health care providers and organizations in improving uptake of effective interventions into routine care settings.
Dr. A. Malikopoulos, Professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University will be hosting a lecture as part of the CRF Tay Gavin Lecture Series on Thursday, May 9.
Professor Malikopoulos' interdisciplinary research includes analysis, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems (CPS); decentralized stochastic systems; stochastic scheduling and resource allocation; and learning in complex systems.
Dr. W. Kraus, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology Medicine and the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University will be hosting a lecture as part of the CRF Tay Gavin Lecture Series on April 25.
Dr. Kraus is a clinician scientist with research interests in the use of exercise for favorable mediation of cardiometabolic risk.
Please register (whether attending in-person or via Zoom) at the link below.
Exercise Therapy for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
Dr. Lee Jones
In this lecture, Dr. Jones will discuss the considerable clinical and public interest in whether engaging in exercise, either among those individuals at elevated risk of cancer or those recently diagnosed with cancer, can influence disease development and progression. Dr. Jones will review the current evidence base as well as ongoing studies linking exercise to cancer risk as well as the impact of exercise in those diagnosed with cancer.
Dr. Lee W. Jones ...
Please register (whether attending in-person or via Zoom) at the link below.
Social relationships can enhance the quality of life by conferring higher levels of subjective well-being, greater resilience against adverse circumstances, and better health. To obtain these benefits, humans must navigate a complex social world where self-interest must be balanced by interest in others. In this talk, Dr. Campos asserts that Latino contexts are of theoretical and applied interest for studying these questions and present a...
How can we best understand and respond to environmental emergency-related contamination events such as hurricanes in Texas and North Carolina, large-scale chemical fires and flooding?
