2023-2024 Speaker Series

Tim Errington, Ph.D.

Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science

Tim Errington, Ph.D.

Senior Director of Research at the Center for Open Science

Open Science Bootcamp 2023 will be held on August 9-11 on the Penn State University Park campus. The Bootcamp is open to all students, staff, and faculty who want to learn more about open science and how to incorporate open science practices into their scholarship and teaching. This is a free, in-person event with limited capacity.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 – Friday, August 11, 2023
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Wed. & Thurs., 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Fri.
Marriott Foundation Building
Registration is required

Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D.

Lois Audrey Betts Chair, Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D.

Lois Audrey Betts Chair, Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

“Re-Envisioning Resilience in African American Families: Transforming Oppressive Systems through Resistance”

Abstract: African American families navigate not only everyday stressors and adversities, but also unique sociocultural stressors (e.g., “toxic upstream waters” like oppression). Despite these challenges, African American families have developed resilience using strength-based adaptive coping strategies, to some extent, to filter these waters. Dr. McBride Murry will propose a paradigm shift that includes acts of resistance that African American families may engage in to create system level change.

Co-Sponsored with the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Dr. Murry is also presenting the BENNETT LECTURE
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Location: 132 Flex Theatre, HUB-Robeson Center
“Enhancing Family and Youth Personal Protection: Navigating Toxic Waters through Intervention Effects of SAAF and PAAS Family-Centered Preventive Intervention Programs”

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
4:30 p.m., Location: Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building
Light reception to follow

2023 Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Conference

“Supporting Crossover Youth Involved with Child Welfare and Juvenile Court Systems”

Co-sponsored by the Child Study Center

Please register here.

Thursday, October 5, 2023
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
The Hintz Family Alumni Center

Joseph P. Allen, Ph.D.

Hugh P. Kelly Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences, Psychology
University of Virginia

Joseph P. Allen, Ph.D.

Hugh P. Kelly Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences, Psychology
University of Virginia

“The Connection Effect: Understanding and Enhancing the Lifelong Implications of Adolescent Social Relationships“

Abstract: The adult world is deeply ambivalent about adolescent social relationships. We fear the power and effects of peer influence and worry about the impact of social media. Yet, our youth are remarkably lonely and have only grown more so over the past 15 years. This talk will address this ambivalence and make the case that forming strong bonds with peers is the key social developmental task of adolescence, with a surprising range of lifelong implications. The talk will then go on to describe a unique intervention, The Connection Project, designed to address youths’ growing need for (and difficulty establishing) the deep peer relationships needed to support their growth and development. Promising data from randomized trials will be presented, along with discussion of the issues involved in scaling successful interventions for youth.

Thursday, November 30, 2023
The 2023-2024 Child Study Center’s Lois Bloom Lecture
3:30 p.m., Memorial Lounge, 107 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
Light reception to follow