Fall 2009 Seminars

All seminars are in S209 Henderson Building, from 4-5 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

September 2 Mark Greenberg, Ph.D., Director, Penn State Prevention Research Center and Edna Bennett Peterson Chair and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, "The Effects of Social and Emotional Learning: An Update of International Findings on the PATHS Curriculum"
September 9 Meg Small, Ph.D., Research Associate, Penn State Prevention Research Center, "Innovative Approaches for Broadening the Reach and Appeal of Prevention"  [presentation]
September 23 Amishi Jha, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, "Tuning and Training Attention and Working Memory"
October 14 Gene Brody, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Child and Family Development, University of Georgia and Director, Center for Family Research, "Testing Gene x Environment Hypotheses Using Longitudinal and Randomized Prevention Research Designs" [presentation]

October 21

 

 Aleta Meyer, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Prevention Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Reflections from NIDA Prevention Services Research: Thinking about Implementation and Sustainability on the Front-End of Research"
November 4 Mark Cummings, Ph.D., Professor and Notre Dame Chair in Psychology, University of Notre Dame, "Evaluating a Brief Prevention Program for Parents for Improving Marital Conflict in Community Families" [presentation]

November 9

Note Monday date

Tamsin Ford, MD, Clinical Training Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, "The British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Surveys 1999-2007" [presentation]

November 12

2009 Bennett Lecture

Note Thursday date

Note different location: Living Center, Henderson Building

G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington and Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center, “Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors"

November 18

Joint Seminar with the Methodology Center

Donna Coffman, Ph.D., Research Associate, Methodology Center, Penn State, "Causal Inference for Mediation Analysis in Prevention Research"
November 25 No Seminar--Thanksgiving
December 2 Abe Wandersman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of South Carolina, "Promoting Science-based Approaches: Integrating Research to Practice Models and Community-Centered Models Using the Interactive Systems Framework (ISF)"
December 9 Center Meeting