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CHHD Colloquium Series

A core CHHD activity is its interdisciplinary colloquium series, usually offered in coordination with the graduate and faculty seminar. Leading and emerging researchers from UConn and other universities have presented their current work related to the intersecting concerns of the three CHHD domains. Topics covered in the seminar have included cultural aspects of normative social, emotional, and cognitive development; clinically significant syndromes such as post-partum distress and attention-deficit disorder; and evolutionary and developmental aspects of health and nutrition.


Spring 2008 Colloquium
March 24 Oumar Barry, Ph.D.
Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Marian Zeitlin, Ph.D.
Cornell University
"Designing a School Readiness Program in Senegal: Developmental Tests, Nutritional Assessment, and Home Life"

Spring 2007 Colloquium Series
February 15 Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Ph.D.
Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, and Director, Center for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos (CEHDL)
"Planting seeds, building capacity: The Brazilian Household Food Insecurity Measurement Project”
March 15 Chessa Lutter, Ph.D.
Regional Advisor, Pan American Health Organization
"The role of fortified foods in children’s health and development: Research and public policy in Latin America”
April 12 Harriet Kuhnlein, Ph.D.
Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Health McGill University
"Culture and Nature: Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems and Health”
May 2 Frank Furstenberg
Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania
"Transitions to adulthood: New initiatives for public policy”

Links to previous series:

2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999


Below is a collage of pictures from past colloquia.

From upper left:

  1. Robert LeVine (Harvard University), 2003;
  2. Charles Super, Steve Suomi (National Institutes of Health), Sara Harkness, and Lee Pachter discuss Suomi’s presentation in 2005;
  3. Xinyin Chen (University of Western Ontario), 2003;
  4. Tom Miller, 2004;
  5. Anna Lartey (University of Ghana), 2002;
  6. Carol Lammi-Keefe, 2001;
  7. Jerome Kagan (Harvard University), 2002;
  8. rapt members of the audience;
  9. Amy Miller, Lee Pachter, and Sara Harkness discuss Pachter’s presentation in 2005;
  10. Fabienne Doucet, 2004;
  11. Carol Worthman (Emory University), 2002;
  12. Robert Sternberg (Yale University), 2004.

4. Tom Miller 1. Robert LeVine 2.Dean Charles M. Super 2. Steve Suomi 2. Sara Harkness, and Lee Pachter 3. Xinyin Chen 5. Anna Lartey 6. Carol Lammi-Keefe 7. Jerome Kagan 9. Amy Miller, Lee Pachter, and Sara Harkness10. Fabienne Doucet 11. Carol Worthman 12. Robert Sternberg