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February 22, 2018 2:30 PM 5:00 PM PST Lecture: 2:30 to 4 p.m. Multipurpose Room Student Community Center Reception: 4 to 5 p.m. Multipurpose Room Student Community Center Shaun R. Harper is a Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, founder and executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center, and immediate past president of the...

If I were asked by a survey to describe my experience with sexual assault in college, I would pinpoint two incidents, both of which occurred at or after parties in my freshman year. In the first case, the guy went after me with sniper accuracy, magnanimously giving me a drink he’d poured upstairs. In the second case, I’m sure the guy had no idea that he was doing something wrong. I had joined a sorority, and all my social circles were as sloppy, intense, and tribal as the Greek system—the...

Rebecca Ives, M.D. of UC Davis Pediatrics Residency Program gives a detailed and thorough description of the ACE study and how to integrate it into pediatric settings. Take a listen! LINK HERE

Ronald Epstein MD -- family physician, teacher, researcher and writer -- has devoted his career to understanding and improving patient-physician communication, quality of care and clinician mindfulness. Dr. Epstein has conducted groundbreaking research into communication in medical settings and developed innovative educational programs that promote mindfulness, communication and self-awareness. Dr. Epstein directs the Center for Communication and Disparities Research and co-directs the Deans...

The second annual UC Davis Mental Health Conference was held at the Conference Center on Jan. 20 and 21. Programming included expert workshops, student and expert panels, a resource fair, a student gallery and a healing space as well as lunch and dinner. The aim of the conference was to promote mental illness de-stigmatization, education, self-reflection and healing through mental health care discourse. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health , one out of five Americans suffer...

Science By Elisabeth Pain Approximately one-third of Ph.D. students are at risk of having or developing a common psychiatric disorder like depression, a recent study reports. Although these results come from a small sample—3659 students at universities in Flanders, Belgium, 90% of whom were studying the sciences and social sciences—they are nonetheless an important addition to the growing literature about the prevalence of mental health issues in academia . One key message for scientific...

Friday, February 23, 2018 - 3:10pm - 4:30pm | 2203 SS&H, Andrews Conference Room Kimberly Noble, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Education, Columbia University MORE INFO Dr. Kimberly Noble is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist and pediatrician who studies socioeconomic disparities in children’s neurocognitive development. She received her undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and trained at the Sackler Institute for Developmental...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she will post the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Lynch BA, Agunwamba A, Wilson PM, et. al. Adverse family experiences and obesity in children and adolescents in the United States. Prev Med. 2016 Sep;90:148-54.

Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. Alfred E. Mirsky Professor Rockefeller University “The Resilient Brain: Epigenetics, Stress and the Lifecourse” Friday, Jan.12, 2018 11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m. PSSB Auditorium, G300 For more information, please contact Morgan Luthi at 916-734-7523 or mluthi@ucdavis.edu Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. Neuroendocrinologist and head of the Harold and Margaret Milli-ken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University . McEwen received his bachelor's degree in chemistry...

Science has shown music has a way of invoking memory. It’s been used to help people suffering from dementia reconnect to themselves and to their environment. Now, researchers are trying to figure out whether music can be used as therapy for people once considered unreachable. “There is neuroscientific evidence that music is very embedded deep in the brain … and linked to experiences,” said Debra Bakerjian , an associate adjunct professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the...

Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info - - that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs . Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address ACEs on the main ACEs Connection site. If you missed December's summary review it HERE . Scott Webb from WIsconsin Dept of Health Services catalogs research and news about ACEs and trauma-informed care . His summary from December...

Sacramento and Davis are only about 15 miles from each other, but the distance might as well be 50 miles, psychologically. The town-gown partnership that ought to exist between California’s capital and UC Davis perpetually founders in ways that it simply shouldn’t. Arizona State University in Tempe is embedded in Phoenix’s economy, though 10 miles separate those two cities. No business considering a Los Angeles location would imagine that city’s sprawling assets don’t include the academic...