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2006 Event Archive

January

January 11 Spring semester begins.

January 11 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 11 12-1:30 pm Research Scientist Business Meeting. Led by Phil Costanzo, professor, Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 12 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

January 12 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Duke University closed.

January 18 9-10:15 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Insitute, Rhodes Conference Room.

January 18 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Making the Case for Why and How Economic Context Matters in Children's Development , featuring Vonnie McLoyd , professor of psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 19 8:30-10 am Project MOM Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

January 19 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 25 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

January 25 12-1:30 pm Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

January 26 1:30-3 pm CCFP Center-Wide Staff Meeting. Rhodes Conference Room.

January 26 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

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February

February 1 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Turning Points and Developmental Disturbances: A Developmental Perspective on Substance Use During the Transition to Adulthood, featuring John Schulenberg, research professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and Center for Human Growth and Development. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 2 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 8 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 9 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

February 9 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 10 11:15 am-12:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Examining the Impact of Criminalizing Drug Use on the Health of Minority Families, featuring Martin Iguchi, adjunct senior behavioral scientist at the Drug Policy Research Center, RAND Corporation, and professor, Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 13 10-11:30 am CCFP Administrative Staff Meeting. Mill Building, Bay C Conference Room.

February 14 8:30-10 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

February 15 9-10:15 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Insitute, Rhodes Conference Room.

February 15 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Peer Standing and Substance Use in Early-Adolescent Grade-Level Networks, featuring Ley Killeya-Jones, research scientist with the Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, part of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 16 8:30-10 am Project MOM Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

February 16 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 22 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 23 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

February 24 11:30 am-12:45 pm Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

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March

March 1 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Mechanisms and Marijuana: Treatment as Prevention in Young Adult Marijuana Users, featuring Kathleen Carroll, professor of psychiatry, and scientific director of the Psychotherapy Development Research Center at Yale. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 2 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 8 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 8 12-1:30 pm Peer Influence of Old-for-Grade and Retained Students: Disciplinary Infractions and Suspensions in Middle School, led by Clara Muschkin and Beth Glennie. Open to all Child and Family Policy staff. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 9 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

March 9 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 14 8:30-10 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

March 15 9-10:15 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Insitute, Rhodes Conference Room.

March 16 8:30-10 am Project MOM Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

March 16 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 22 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 22 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Cities and Schools, featuring Tom Nechyba, chair of the Economics Department at Duke. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 22 2-3:30 pm Center for Child and Family Policy visit with Duke University President Dick Brodhead.

March 23 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

March 29 12-1:30 pm Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

March 30 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

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April

April 5 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

April 5 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, featuring Karol Kumpfer. Kumpfer is a professor at the University of Utah 's Department of Health Promotion and Education. Her major research focus is on adolescent substance abuse prevention. Kumpfer is also interested in family-based health promotion approaches, cultural and gender adaptations of evidence-based health promotion programs, and community coalition approaches to substance abuse prevention. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

April 6 3-5 pm Spencer Fellows Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

April 11 8:30-10 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

April 11 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Advances in Latent Variable Modeling, featuring Bengt Muthen, professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

April 12 12-1:30 pm Research Scientist Business Meeting, Titles of PhD-Level Research Personnel in the Center, led by Rick Hoyle. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

April 13 11 am-12:30 pm Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

April 19 Graduate classes end.

April 19 9-10:15 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Insitute, Rhodes Conference Room.

April 19 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

April 20 8:30-10 am Making a Difference for Durham Families Community Breakfast. Lyon Park Community Center , 1313 Halley Street , Durham .

April 20 8:30-10 am Project MOM Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

April 25 12-1:30 pm Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

April 26 Undergraduate classes end

April 27 10:30 am-12 pm Center for Child and Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 05.

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May

May 3 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Location TBA.

May 3 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Why Mature Smokers Do Not Quit, featuring Frank Sloan, J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and professor of economics at Duke. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

May 8 10:30 am - Noon CCFP Administrative Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

May 9 8:30-10 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

May 9 12-1:30 pm Developmental Psychology and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action, featuring J. Lawrence Aber of the Applied Psychology Department of New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. Location Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 03.

May 10 12-1:30 pm Research Scientist Business Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

May 11 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

May 14 Noon Graduation Ceremonies.

May 17 8am - Noon North Carolina Family Impact Seminar, Children's Mental Health: Strategies for Providing High Quality and Cost-Effective Care. By invitation. Location: Legislative Auditorium, 16 West Jones Street, Raleigh .

May 17 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Location TBA.

May 17 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Prevention for High-Risk Adolescents in Community Settings, featuring Lori Holleran, assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

May 18 8:30-10 am Project MOM Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

May 19 8 am-4 pm Conference: Immigrant Families in America : Multidisciplinary Views on the 21st Century. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 04.

May 20 8:30 am-5 pm Conference: Immigrant Families in America : Multidisciplinary Views on the 21st Century. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 04.

May 24 9-10:15 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Field trip to Duke Lemur Center.

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June

June 7 12-1 pm Welcome Luncheon for NIDA Summer Research Interns. Rubenstein Hall, Room 149.

June 13 8:30-10:00 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

June 20 10:30 am-noon CCFP All-Center Meeting. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 04.

June 29 10-11 am Creating an Effective PowerPoint Presentation, featuring Geelea Seaford. Location TBA.

June 29 12-1:30 pm Sanford Institute Summer Cookout. Location: lawn between Sanford and Rubenstein.

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July

July 4 University Holiday - offices closed.

July 11 8:30-10:00 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

July 12 10-11:30 am CCFP Admin Staff Meeting. Sanford Institute, Room 102.

July 12 12-1 pm Creating Scan Forms Using Verity Teleforms, featuring JoLynn Pek, senior research aid at the Center for Child and Family Policy. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

July 20 8 am-5 pm Conference: Family-School Relations during Adolescence: Linking Interdisciplinary Research and Practice. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 04.

July 21 8 am-5 pm Conference: Family-School Relations during Adolescence: Linking Interdisciplinary Research and Practice. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 04.

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August

August 8 8:30-10 am CCFP Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

August 14 9-11 am Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

August 17 9-10:30 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

August 17 3:30-4:30 pm Sanford Institute Ice Cream Social. Sanford Lobby.

August 21 12-1:30 pm Leadership Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

August 22 10:30 am-1 pm CCFP All-Center Retreat and Luncheon. Sanford Institute, Lecture Hall 05.

August 29 12-1:30 pm Self-efficacy Beliefs as Determinants of Well-being, featuring Gian Vittorio Caprara, professor of psychology, University of Rome , La Sapienza. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

August 30 12-1:30 pm NIDA Executive Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

August 30 1:30-2:30 pm Data Group Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

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September

September 6 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

September 6 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

September 6 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Changing Habits by Accident and by Design, featuring Wendy Wood, James B. Duke Professor in Psychology, professor of marketing; co-director, Social Science Research Institute. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

September 12 8:30-10 am Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

September 13 11 am-12 pm CCFP Data Services Group. Location TBD.

September 15 10:30 am-12 pm CCFP Administrative Staff Meeting. Erwin Square Mill Building , Bay C conference room.

September 15 3:30 pm Sanford Institute of Public Policy Fall Reception. Sanford Institute Lobby. Please RSVP to Allison Rosenstein.

September 19 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Developing an Evaluation for an Economic Development Plan in a Mississippi Town, featuring William Raspberry, newspaper columnist at the Washington Post and Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy Studies, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

September 20 8:45-9:45 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 153.

September 20 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

September 20 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

September 20 11:45 am-1:15 pm Administrative Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 142.

September 27 12-1:30 pm NIDA Executive Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

September 27 1:30-2:30 pm Data Group Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

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October

October 4 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

October 4 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

October 4 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Regulatory Focus as a Predictor of Initial Substance Use in Adolescence, featuring Timothy Strauman, professor and department chair, and Alexis Franzese, graduate student, both of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

October 6-7 8 am-5 pm Colloquium: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: What Works? Location: UNC-Chapel Hill.

October 9-10 Conference: Peer Influence Processes in Youth. Sanford Institute, Room 04.

October 10 8:30-10 am Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

October 11 11 am-12 pm CCFP Data Services Group. Location TBD.

October 11 12-1:30 pm Colloquium: featuring Thomas Dishion, professor of psychology and director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

October 11 3:30-5 pm Sulzberger Distinguished Speaker Series, An Ecological Approach to Children's Mental Health Interventions: What we know and its implications for public policy, featuring Thomas Dishion, professor of psychology and director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. Location: Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. Reception immediately following. Click here to view PowerPoint presentation .

October 12 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

October 16 10:30 am - noon CCFP All-Center Meeting. Sanford Institute, Room 05.

October 17 9 am-3 pm Early College High School Advisory Board Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

October 18 8:45-9:45 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 153.

October 18 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

October 18 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

October 18 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Moving to Choice: Challenges of Housing Poor Ex-Urbanites in Rural Environments, featuring Sherri Lawson Clark, research scientist, Social Science Research Institute Center for Social Demography and Ethnography, Duke University. Location: Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room.

October 18-20 1-4 pm Introduction to SAS Software. Training provided by Lorrie Schmid, Data Management Programmer, Center for Child and Family Policy. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242. RSVP.

October 19 11:45 am-1:15 pm Administrative Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

October 25 12-1:30 pm NIDA Executive Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

October 25 1:30-2:30 pm Data Group Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

October 26 12-1:45 pm Research Interests of CCFP Graduate Students. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

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November

November 1 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

November 1 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group. Presenter: Ryan Kinlaw, research scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

November 1 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Social Influence and the Process of "Norm Narrowing" in Adolescents: The identity-seeking benefits of deviant peer association, featuring Phil Costanzo, professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

November 8 11 am-12 pm CCFP Data Services Group. Location TBD.

November 8 11:45 am-1:15 pm Administrative Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

November 9 12-1:30 pm The Preschool Movement: Policy, Politics and Packaging, featuring David Kirp, professor of public policy at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. Kirp is the author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education. RSVP.

November 13 12-1:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Safe and Drug-Free Schools: New Direction?, featuring William Modzeleski, associate assistant deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and visiting professor of the practice of public policy, Duke University. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200. RSVP.

November 14 8:30-10 am Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

November 15 8:45-9:45 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 153.

November 15 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

November 15 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group, A Comparison of Solutions to Large Ordinal Psychometric Scales for Structural Equation Modeling: Parcels, Shortened Scales and Latent Scores, featuring Chongming Yang, research scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

November 17 10:30 am-12 pm CCFP Administrative Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall.

November 29 12-1:30 pm NIDA Executive Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

November 29 1:30-2:30 pm Data Group Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

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December

December 5 2-3:30 pm Child and Family Research Seminar Series, Response Evaluation and Decision (RED) and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence, featuring Reid Fontaine, research scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

December 6 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

December 6 10:30 am-12 pm Developmental Psychopathology Research Group, Preventing Aggressive Behavior by Promoting Social Information Processing Skills: a Theory-Based Evaluation of the Making Choices Program, featuring Mary Terzian, postdoctoral research associate, Center for Child and Family Policy. Rubenstein Hall, Room 200.

December 6 12-1:30 pm Science to Service: Substance Abuse Prevention Seminar Series, Development of Nicotine Dependence in Adolescence, featuring Denise Kandel, professor of socio-medical sciences, Columbia University . Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

December 7 12-3 pm CCFP Holiday Luncheon. Cafe Parizade, 2200 W. Main Street , Durham .

December 8 1:30-3 pm CCFP Administrative Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

December 12 2-3 pm Single in the City: Racial Variations in Women's Marital Attitudes Over Time, featuring Belinda Tucker, director of the Family Research Consortium IV and professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA. Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room. RSVP.

December 13 11:45 am-1:15 pm Administrative Committee Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 287.

December 13 11 am-12 pm CCFP Data Services Group. Location TBD.

December 14 8:30-10 am Project Directors' Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

December 14 10-11:30 am Policy Team Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 207.

December 20 8:45-9:45 am Public Policy Staff Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 153.

December 20 9-10:30 am NIDA Program II Meeting. Rubenstein Hall, Room 242.

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