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SSFD Speaker Series

As part of the launch of our new school, we invite you to join us at a series of four scholarly presentations by some of our school’s renowned professors. The Speaker Series will be held in the ASU University Club (South Room). Meet the speaker after the presentation from 4:30-5:30, refreshments served.

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Dr. Mark Roosa - Contextual Influences on the Adaptation of Mexican American Children

SSFD Events Archive

Past Speaker Series Presentations:

• Thursday, September 7, 2006, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  Dr. Gary Ladd - Children’s Social Competence: An Important Educational Objective
• Thursday, October 5, 2006, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  Dr. Carol Martin - The Gendered Lives of Girls and Boys
• Thursday, November 2, 2006, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  Dr. Kim Updegraff - Gender, Culture, and Family Well Being: Differences Between and Within Families

SSFD Launch Events

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Event: Eleanor Maccoby Keynote Address, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Title: The Promise and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research
Description: Eleanor Maccoby will reflect on her experiences in working with colleagues over the course of her remarkable career from biologists, to lawyers, to behaviorists, to anthropologists. Mark this even on your calendar if you are interested in families, children, gender, women and science, history of science, research methods, and/or socialization! This is a chance to see and hear a true icon! Check out Eleanor Maccoby's Biography.

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Event:

• Official Launch Ceremony with President Michael M. Crow
• Graduate Student Research Poster Competition: A display of the research of our School’s graduate students
• The Future is Now! Strategies for Success in the New American University: A panel discussion with members of our School’s National Leadership Board (W. Andrew Collins, University of Minnesota; Rand Conger, UC Davis; Susan McHale, Penn State University; and Debra Umberson, University of Texas)