In 2012-13, the Center on the Developing Child is launching a Doctoral Working Group for graduate students across the University who are early in their doctoral studies and who have an interest in early childhood and adolescent health and development. The Doctoral Working Group serves as a complement to the Center’s Richmond Fellowship Program, which is for advanced doctoral students working on their dissertations, and to the Center’s Student Seminar Series, which offers undergraduates and graduate students alike a broad introduction to the integrated science of health, learning, and behavior.
This group, by contrast, combines practical guidance on how to navigate the doctoral experience with thematic presentations on a variety of topics related to child development. As an interdisciplinary forum that will meet several times throughout the academic year, the yearlong, non-credit Doctoral Working Group will feature interactive sessions led by advanced doctoral students, postdocs, faculty, and guest speakers. Participating doctoral candidates will also be given the opportunity to present some of their own work. Dinner will be served at each session.
The deadline for applications was Friday, September 28, 2012 by 12:00 pm.
Session Schedule
Session 1: September 10, 2012, 4-5:30 pm
Orientation to the Center on the Developing Child
Session 2: September 18, 2012, 5:30-7:30 pm
An overview of the biodevelopmental framework
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Director, Center on the Developing Child
This is a joint session with the Center’s Student Seminar Series. This session will be held at Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Mass.
Session 3: October 15, 2012, 4:30-6:30 pm (HSPH, Kresge, Rm 708)
Panel of advanced doctoral students
Dustin Duncan, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH
Todd Grindal, Postdoctoral Fellow, HGSE
Session 6: November 26, 2012, 5:30-7:30 pm (HCDC)
Session 7: February 4, 2013, 4:30-6:30 pm (HCDC)
Session 8: March 4, 2013, 4:30-6:30 pm (Conte Center, Northwest Building, Room 243 )
Frontiers in Science: Connectomes
Narayanan "Bobby" Kasthuri , Research Associate, Lichtman Lab
Session 9: April 8, 2013, 5:30-7:30 pm (HCDC)
Joint Session with the Center's Student Seminar Series
Pat Levitt, Ph.D., Science Director, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
Provost Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Pharmacy; Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
