Part of the BCTR’s Talks at Twelve Series. Stress exposure is a transdiagnostic risk factor for a range of health problems, behaviors, and disparities. Stress exposure is difficult to mitigate given its heterogeneity (e.g., adverse life events) and scale (e.g., SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, societal racial biases). Given these challenges, clinical scientists have focused on developing programs […]

The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness about the detrimental impact of food and nutrition insecurity on the health and well-being of millions of Americans as well as the important role of the charitable food system in helping to alleviate hunger. Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, supports a network of 200 food […]

This Talks at Twelve has a special start time of 11:30 a.m. and is part of the Faculty Roundtable Discussion Series on Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdocs. The talk is open to faculty and BCTR staff. Julie Posselt is associate dean of the Graduate School and associate professor of Education at the University of Southern […]

The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research is offering its fourth annual Cornell Translational Research Summer Institute (CTRSI) virtually June 20-23, 2022. Sessions each day will be from 10 a.m. to Noon. Over several decades, the Bronfenbrenner Center has developed extensive expertise in conducting research in real-world settings and translating empirical findings into practice. Over the […]

The two-day conference (each day 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. EDT)  is a forum to discuss topics related to the “Ecology of Youth Learning.” The conference will discuss a number of questions that relate to the experience of youth learning and is also a networking event for practitioners to learn about opportunities to get involved […]