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Brown Bag Meeting: Contexts & Development. Carolyn and Phil Cowan will present brief video clips of their assessments of families involving the child in interaction with an experimenter, mother, father, and mother and father.

Two commentators will offer further reflections on families as contexts. Elliot Turiel and Susan Holloway will provide commentary based on their own work. Then, the discussion will be open to the group.

Friday, May 16, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

Brown Bag Meeting: Contexts & Development. As the next step in exploring a myriad of views about "what context is," and with the hopes of beginning discussions about theoretical and methodological challenges, four individuals representing a diversity of approaches and sub-disciplinary contexts will present briefly (10 minutes each):

• Culutre-Cognition Relations: A Developmental Perspective (Geoff Saxe, Education)
• Contextual Triggers of Stigma-Related Threat (Rudy Mendoza-Denton, Social Psychology)
• The Fish is in the Water and the Water is in the Fish: An Overdue Exegesis on Essentialism? (Joe Campos, Developmental Psychology)
• School Conditions and Educational Equity (Rhona Weinstein, Community Psychology)

Friday, April 18, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

Brown Bag Meeting: Developmental Psychology. Steve Hinshaw, Department of Psychology , will discuss developmental psychopathology (DP) as an approach, perspective, or discipline with the hope of integrating the methods and traditions of developmental psychology with those of clinical child psychology and child/adolescent psychiatry, in order to forge a new synthesis. He will highlight some of the core tenets of DP, as well as key methods used by those involved in DP studies, with both an admiring and critical eye toward its goals, approaches, and findings.

Friday, April 11, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

Brown Bag Meeting: Changing Minds, Changing Brains. Silvia Bunge, Department of Psychology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, will provide an overview of several neuroscientific methods used in developmental psychology. She will open up a discussion of how these methods can supplement behavioral techniques in the study of the developing mind, providing novel insights into the study of human development.

Friday, March 14, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

Brown Bag Meeting: Context of Development. Phil Cowan and Rhona Weinstein will present a potentially fruitful new research theme for the Institute of Human Development which would focus on the ways in which existing and changing contexts affect individual and group development. Research questions may address the way in which individuals develop and adapt, especially in families, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and cultures or subcultures.

Friday, February 29, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

Brown Bag Meeting: Public Policy & Universal Preschool Education. As a follow-up on our discussion on early childhood development and education, Bruce Fuller (Graduate School of Education) will speak on Political and Institutional Conceptions of Child Development. He will address the following issues: Why have political leaders--from Hillary Clinton to Arnold Schwarzenegger--embraced the ideas of expanding preschool? What is this human-scale institution supposed to provide for diverse young children? How has the earlier child care movement narrowed into a call simply creating new grade levels for three and four year-olds in the public schools? These are the suddenly politically charged issues that Bruce tackles in his new book, Standaradized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education.

Friday, February 15, 2008
12:30-2:00p.m.
1111 Tolman Hall

2008-09 Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowship Applications NOW AVAILABLE
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/sci-scholars_fellows.html

**April 7th, 2008 5pm DEADLINE**

The Greater Good Science Center offers annual fellowships to UC Berkeley Undergraduate and Graduate students whose work relates to our mission. The fellowship program aims to attract scholars from across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, with a particular focus on the social-behavioral sciences. [More Information]

The Greater Good Science Center launches "Raising Happy Kids" on their website. Visitors to the site can receive helpful tips on parenting from other parents through a message board. Blogversations between executive director of the Greater Good Science Center and author, mother, and breast cancer survivor Kelly Corrigan are also featured on the site. [Read More]