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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.
- April 30, 2024Source: Chalkbeat
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.
- April 25, 2024Source: WebMD
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.
- April 24, 2024
On March 30th, 2024, Yale hosted its 15th Annual Brain Education Day, continuing its tradition of science outreach to the greater New Haven community.
- April 24, 2024
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.
- April 23, 2024
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.
- April 22, 2024
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.
- April 22, 2024
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.
- April 18, 2024
Research found that mothers who used substances showed less brain activation in regions associated with affective empathy when exposed to images and sounds of happy and sad babies.
- April 15, 2024Source: Psychiatric Times
In this Perspectives piece in Psychiatric Times, YCSC Clinical Fellow Onyi Okeke discusses a new Black Youth Mental Health Case Conference series along with the powerful presentation she presented with the series organizer, Amanda Calhoun.