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Grand Rounds Presentation

Minding the Teenage Brain: Adolescence as a Period of Opportunity and Vulnerability for Mental Health

Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

Nov 12 2013
Educator Event

Educating the Adolescent Mind: The Landscape of the Teenage Brain

Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

Nov 12 2013
Educator Event

Promoting Moral Development In Schools

Richard Weissbourd, Ed.D

Senior Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Oct 24 2013

Raising Happy, High Achieving – and Moral – Kids

Richard Weissbourd, Ed.D

Senior Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Oct 24 2013

Do Well While Doing Good: Emotions, Leadership, and the Neuroscience of Mindfulness

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Carter Cast

Michael S. and Mary Sue Shannon Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Eric Langshur

Co-Founder of Abundant Venture Partners and of AVIA

Apr 25 2013

Mindfulness and Education: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Apr 25 2013

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying with Character and Empathy

Emily Bazelon

Staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School

Mar 6 2013

Preparing Leaders of Innovation

Liz Gerber, Ph.D.

Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America

Feb 4 2013