Nadine Gaab PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, will present a talk titled The typical and atypical reading brain: Developmental evidence from infants, preschoolers and school-age children
Lelia Kawar PhD, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will present a talk titled Legal activism and deportation resistance: comparative and historical perspectives.
Rob Nosofsky PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University, will present a talk titled Teaching Natural-Science Categories with Guidance from a Psychological Model of Classification
The NSB Graduate Program will hold a colloquium featuring Anat Biegon PhD, Professor of Neurology at Stony Brook Neurosciences Institute. Dr Biegon's talk is titled Estrogen synthase (aromatase) in the human brain: Where, when and what for?
Dr Biegon works on the human brain response to traumatic, ischemic or inflammatory insults and sex differences and gonadal hormone modulation of brain function in health and disease. She has also developed radiopharmaceutical tools for non invasive imaging of neurotransmitter and hormone markers in the brain.
David Kajander and Patrick Sadil, graduate students at UMass Amherst will present a talk titled Trends in open science and the resources provided by data sharing
Abstract: New projects and databases have arisen that collect data in a way that is easy to access and use, particularly with fMRI data. We will discuss the advantages and pitfalls of researchers sharing analyses, data, and code through internet databases. Additionally, we will briefly present how to get involved in the process.
Laura VanderDrift PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University, will present a talk titled "On romantic relationship dissolution: Why do people leave their relationships?”
Dr. VanderDrift conducts research on inter- and intra-personal dynamics of close relationships.
Farshid Hajir PhD, candidate for the CNS Dean position and Professor and Department Head in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMass-Amherst, will hold a public presentation.
Please join The Center for Research on Families as Lisa Bowleg PhD, Professor of Applied Psychology at The George Washington University, presents a lecture titled "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.
David Sela PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Sciences at UMass-Amherst, will present a talk titled Breast milk modulates the form and function of the developing neonatal microbiome
Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall - 160 East
Ervin Staub PhD, Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the doctoral program in The Psychology of Peace and Violence at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, will present a talk titled The origins of violence and principles and practices of prevention.
