Child Study Center News

YCSC Professor Marc Potenza was quoted in this Psychology Today article on the risks and consequences of marijuana use for young adults.

YCSC Assistant Professor Adjunct Samuel Mehr was recently recognized for his work on the psychology of music by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, having won the 2023 Te Puiaki Kaipūtaiao Maea MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist award. The award comes with a prize of $200,000, and Samuel says the prize money will allow him to expand the lab and bring on new talent to help with some of the more technical computational aspects of his research.

YCSC Associate Clinical Director Christy Mills and Attorney Kathryn Meyer were quoted in this article about about medical-legal partnerships produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

In the latest WebMD Health Discovered episode, YSCS Assistant Clinical Professor Claudia-Santi Fernandes and Rahul Rangan of Born This Way Foundation spoke with the podcast host, Neha P. about the vital mental health resources needed in schools, and the impact of Born This Way Foundation’s Be There Certificate and their Channel Kindness program on building a kinder and braver world.

On March 30th, 2024, Yale hosted its 15th Annual Brain Education Day, continuing its tradition of science outreach to the greater New Haven community.

Dr. Christina Cipriano's comprehensive meta-analysis, The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions, has been recognized as the Top Cited Article in 2022-2023 for Wiley’s Child Development.

Approximately 60 Yale and New Haven community members gathered at the Yale Child Study Center on Friday, April 12, 2024, for a special mini concert performed by the Onnuri Sarang Chamber Orchestra, visiting from Korea.

The power of mentorship is clear when you first meet Sarah Yip, PhD, and Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, and hear how their complementary interests and collaborative work have grown and thrived.

A professorship has been established at Yale to honor and commemorate the contributions of the late Steven M. Southwick, MD, one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and human resilience. The Director of the Women and Addictive Disorders Core within Women’s Health Research at Yale Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry.