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AUTHOR Reid, Pamela Trotman, Ed.; Tucker, Thelma, Ed. TITLE Society for Research in Child Development Newsletter, 2002. INSTITUTION Society for Research in Child Development. PUB DATE 2002-00-00 NOTE 59p.; Published quarterly. For the 2001 issues, see ED 458 019. AVAILABLE FROM Society for Research in Child Development, , 3131 South State Street, Suite 302, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1623. Tel: 734-998-6578; Fax: 734-998-6569; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://srcd.org. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Society for Research in Child Development Newsletter; v45 nl- 4 2002 EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Child Care; *Child Development; *Developmental ; Information Dissemination; Newsletters; *Organizations (Groups); Program Descriptions; Psychological Studies; World Wide Web IDENTIFIERS Institutional History; *Society for Research in Child Development

ABSTRACT This document consists of the four 2002 issues of a newsletter disseminating information on the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and providing a forum for important news, research, and information concerning advancement in child growth and development research. Each issue of the newsletter includes announcements and notices of conferences, workshops, position openings, fellowship, and member obituaries. The January issue includes the following articles: (1) "Pioneering in Science and Application," on the history of the Institute of Child Development at the University of , and (2)"New Focus on Research on Children's Health and Development." The April issue summarizes survey findings regarding site selection for SRCD's biennial meetings, and features the following articles: (1) "20 Studies that Revolutionized Child Psychology," and (2)"The Millenium Fellows Program: Helping to Build Tomorrow's Scholars." The July issue includes: (1) "The Brain-Behavior Connection," and (2) "Supervising Students' Use of the Web." The October issue features the following articles: (1) Bringing the Research and Head Start Communities Together," and (2)"The National Child Care Study." (HTH)

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Pamela Trotman Reid, Editor Thelma Tucker, Managing Editor

Society for Research in Child Development University of Michigan

Vol. 45, No. 1-4 Jan. 2002Oct. 2002

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Notes from the Executive Officer... Focus on... Maintaining our Focus and Pioneering in Science and Advocacy f©r Work with Chilldren Application

The tragic events of September 11 have affected all of us. Willard W. Hartup, Ann Johnson, and Richard A. Weinberg Some of the consequences are obvious and others less so. Institute of Child Development Attendance at most professional meetings has been 30-40% below expectations this fall. There is little doubt that re- sources we depend upon for our research, training, and other Following are excerpts from a history of the Institute of Child professional activities will be impacted as well. It is, indeed, Development, University of Minnesota, written in observance sobering how quickly the political and financial climate has of its 75th anniversary, published as an anniversary booklet by changed along with the concerns and fears engendered by the Institute, and abridged in the 32nd volume of the Minne- the aftermath of the national tragedy. sota Symposia on Child Psychology (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). My own travel this fall has been affected minimally, with only one meeting being cancelled. The highlight was my invited As Alice Smuts observes participation in the Seventeenth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy held November 6-7, 2001 ...the 1920s, the decade of the flapper and the bootlegger, at the Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. was also the decade of the child, a unique period when trends in science and society converged to bring about Listening to talks, participating in work groups, and having the unanticipated founding of the scientific study of informal exchange with professionals from many different children. disciplines and approaches was both enlightening and (cont. onp. 5) uplifting. The experience helped to put matters in perspective, given the events in the U.S. and the world. It is critical that those of us committed to research and application for children and families IINSIDE maintain our focus and advocate for Committee Report 2 the continuation Remembering Our Memoir Editor2 and improvement of Developments' Submission resources needed Guidelines 2 for our work to SRCD Washington Office Report 3 Surgeon General Honored 4 advance. Fellowship Opportunities 7, 13 Job Openings 9,12,13-14 The Carter Center is A Student Speaks 10 an impressive Prognostications or 10 facility. Located on SRCD Notices 11 many acres of Obituaries 11 wooded lands just Announcements 15-16 15 Classified Ads (cont. onp. 9) Measuring physical growth circa 1928 (Richard E. Scammon and assistant). 31 BEST COPY AVAILABLE POLICY & DISSEMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT

which took an international perspective on "Children's Rights and Children's Realities" and drew attention to children and families who have been marginalized Connie Flanagan, Penn State University, by global economic change. Plans for & Ellen Pinderhughes, the next biennial meeting are likely to Vanderbilt University, focus on research that addresses racial Committee Co-Chairs and ethnic gaps in children's education and academic achievement within the United States, as well as implications for application and policy.

The Committee has a very active The mission of SRCD's Policy and dissemination by working closely with Student Policy Network, currently Dissemination Committee is to monitor Lonnie Sherrod and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, chaired by Stephanie Jones, and science and social policy relevant to the editors of the SRCD Social Policy continues its commitment to nurturing child development and to disseminate Report, and by assisting the Washington new generations of scholars who are scientific information for use in program office in disseminating information to the interested in the application of scientific development, social policy, and by the media at the biennial meetings. research to issues of child policy. The public at large. The committee works on committee also is taking preliminary both goals in collaboration with Lauren Now in its twenty-fifth year, the committee steps to work with other organizations Fasig and Meredith Bosler in the SRCD historically has been concerned about that are dedicated to bringing scientific Office for Policy and Communications in issues of equity, and two of its recent information to bear on child and family Washington, D.C. With them it also initiatives reflect that concern. For the policy. The success of the committee's oversees the SRCD Congressional and 2001 biennial meeting, we collaborated efforts cannot be measured in any one Executive Branch Fellows Program. The with SRCD's Committee on Ethnic and year but are cumulative and due to the committee achieves the latter goal of Minority Affairs to present two symposia vision and hard work of members who precede us. Remembering Our Memoir Editor, Alberta Developmengs' Siegei Submlissfion Guidelines

We were preparing to announce the Text: Provide your material in resignation of our devoted memoirs unformatted text blocks only, editor, Professor Emerita Alberta Siegel, preferably using "Times New for health reasons, when we learned that It Roman" 10-pt font in Word or she died. While we plan to publish a WordPerfect. A photo of the author memoir for her to recognize her contribu- or topic or both to accompany the tions as a researcher, the editor feels that article would be greatly appreciated. Alberta with granddaughter Sydney, last year. a special acknowledgement is due for her years of attention to the memoirs for the carefully (and relentlessly) helped to shape Photographs: 300 DPI, grayscale, SRCD newsletters. The task of the the memoir into an acceptable form. "tif ' files only. memoir editor requires special talents If you do not have a scanner to and vast experience. Alberta seemed to We are indebted to her dedicated efforts, produce the photo quality we need, know everyone who was important to which now sadly cannot be repaid. We loan us your photo; we will scan it child development. Even more impres- enjoyed being among those who received for our use, and then return it to sive was the fact that she knew their her thoughtful suggestions, charming you. students, spouses, and, most important, letters, and in recent years, her emails who could best be tapped to write a detailing the joys and frustrations of Ads: Contact Thelma Tucker tribute to their lives. She recruited these grandmother status. We join with her ([email protected]; 734-998-6578) authors; gently nudged and nagged family, friends, and the many readers of for information and an order form. them until a product emerged; and then DEVELOPMENTS who will miss her.

2 REPORT FROM SRCD ,wASHINGTON OFFICE

New Focus on Research tion, the Children's Environmental Health Network, the Public Health Policy Advi- on Chadren's Henn sory Board, and the Chemistry Council. Representatives from the National Institute and Devellopment of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Maternal and Child Health In 2000, Congress passed and the Bureau, the Environmental Protection President signed two pieces of legisla- Agency (EPA), and the Centers for tion that included language for new Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research efforts addressing children's provided information about other efforts health and development. The first within the Federal government to examine >" legislation, the Consolidated Appropria- children's health. The Committee will tions Act of 2001 (PL 106-554), included continue with its work and it scheduled to a request to the National Academy of make a final report on the evaluation in the Sciences (NAS) to conduct an evalua- fall of 2003. The Office for Policy and Lauren Fasig tion on children's health. Congress Communications (OPC) will continue to specified that the evaluation should follow the activities of the Committee and the core study design will be developed. "assess the adequacy of current will provide updates in our monthly on-linePiloting of the full study will begin in methods for assessing risks to children, newsletter, the Washington Update. early 2004, and the full study is sched- identify scientific uncertainties associ- uled to begin in the fall of 2004. The NCS ated with these methods, and develop a The second piece of legislation passed is will enroll additional sites in 2005. The prioritized research agenda to reduce the Children's Health Act of 2000, PL 106- current plan will allow analyses of the such uncertainties and improve risk 310. The Act authorized NICHD to date to be complete in 2030. assessment for children's health and conduct a national longitudinal study of safety." In response to this Congres- environmental influences (including In December, 2000, the Interagency sional request, the Board on Children, physical, chemical, biological, and psycho- Coordinating Committee conducting the Youth, and Families of the National social) on children's health and develop- NCS study design held the first consul- Research Council and Institute of ment. The Director of NICHD was directed tation with the public in order to receive Medicine, part of the NAS, has formed to establish a consortium of representa- input to the study. Additional consulta- the Committee on Evaluation of tives from appropriate Federal agencies tions have been held, and 24 Children's Health: Measures of Risks, (including the CDC and EPA) to develop a workgroups and a Study Assembly have Protective, and Promotional Factors for prospective cohort study, from birth to been formed to develop the study. Each Assessing Children's Health in the adulthood, to evaluate the effects of both workgroup is focused on an individual Community. This Committee is charged chronic and intermittent exposures on aspect of the study, including study with carrying out the evaluation child health and human development. design, community outreach and described in the language of PL 106-554. Additionally, the study is mandated to communications, ethics, gene-environ- investigate basic mechanisms of develop- ment interactions, and health disparities During the summer, SRCD was asked to mental disorders and environmental and environmental justice. The OPC provide input regarding the issues the factors, both risk and protective, that worked closely with NICHD to institute committee might address in examining a influence health and developmental the Development and Behavior range of risks to the health, safety, and processes. Workgroup. The Study Assembly is well-being of children and adolescents, made up of more than 300 interested including those risks stemming from The project, originally titled the 'Longitu- organizations and individuals with physical, biological, social, and environ- dinal Cohort Study of Environmental relevant expertise. The Assembly mental influences. In late November, the Effects on Child Health and Development,"attends consultations to provide input Committee held its first meeting to has undergone numerous name changes, to the design process. As a member of develop the study goals and scope, the and has most recently been renamed the the Assembly, the OPC has attended key issues and themes to be addressed, National Children's Study (NCS). The goal each consultation, including the most and the timeline for the study. SRCD was of the NCS is to enroll 100,000 women recent one in October. At this meeting, asked to provide additional comments during pregnancy and to follow the each workgroup met to establish a during this meeting to address the families until the child is age 21. The framework and to begin to generate context, scope, and methodology of the development of methods and pilot studies hypotheses for the study. Suggestions study. The Committee also heard from is to take place from 2000 until 2003. In the of hypotheses are due from each the American Psychological Associa- fall of 2003 initial sites will be selected and (cont. onp. 12)

3 IT S AN HONOR !

Sge© Generall CEO ofJordan's Furniture were the other generous gift to establish the World of 2001 honorees. This year's honorees Children Awards Endowment Fund that IHIonored by follow the tradition of past recipients as perpetuates the award. There have been linternztionailly Known individuals who have dedicated a signifi- 25 previous recipients of this presti- cant portion of their lives to improving the gious award including M. L. Carr, who is Children% CenterfOr lives of children. also serving as Host of this year's dinner, Rosalyn Smith Carter, Marian WID1r (With Children The World of Children Award of the Judge Wright Edelman and The Children's Baker Children's Center, was established in Defense Fund, Tipper Gore, Coretta Boston - Dr. David Satcher, U.S. 1988 and named in honor of Dr. Camille 0. Scott King, C. Everett Koop, M.D., and Surgeon General, was honored recently Cosby. Dr. Cosby has been a generous Julius Richmond, M. D. by the Boston-based Judge Baker supporter of the Center's work in the fields Children's Center, an affiliate of Harvard of children's mental health and has been Judge Baker Children's Center, the Medical School and a long-time leader second oldest child mental health in providing services to at-risk children organization in the country was named and their families. in honor of Boston Juvenile Court's first judge, Harvey Humphrey Baker. The Judge Baker President Stuart T. Hauser, Center was founded in 1917, in an M.D., Ph.D, cited Dr. Satcher's national attempt to understand and help, rather adolescent suicide prevention cam- than punish, what were then referred to paign, his work to identify and treat the as "delinquent" or "wayward" children. roots of youth violence, and his landmark efforts to de-stigmatize Almost a century later, Judge Baker diagnosis and treatment of mental Children's Center is internationally illness in naming Satcher the recipient of recognized as a leader in the healthy the 2001 Camille 0. Cosby World of development of children through Children Awards. research, training, education, services and programs for at-risk children, their "Dr. Satcher's success in implementing families and the community at-large. an effective governmental response to personally involved in many aspects of theThe Center continues to work with this the developmental problems that face award. The award honors the accomplish- vulnerable group of children-those who children today is what earned him this ments of institutions and individuals who may have suffered from severe abuse, award," said Hauser. have dedicated themselves to improving lost a parent at a young age, have the lives of children. serious mental health problems or Dr. Satcher said his office is dedicated experience learning difficulties. to improving the physical and mental The award is intended to be the "Nobel health of children, making the Camille 0. Prize" of recognition for outstanding Today, Judge Baker Children's Center Cosby World of Children Award lifetime achievement in working with remains an independent, non-profit especially significant for him. disadvantaged children in the United organization, dedicated to pursuing an States and throughout the world. In 1988 understanding of children in order to "The type of start in life that a child the George Macomber Family made a very help them succeed in their lives. experiences, plays a major role in determining that child's future," said CONWRENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Satcher. "I'm honored to receive the Camille 0. Cosby World of Children Award, especially in light of all the Conference on Human Devellopment important work done on behalf of Charlotte, North Carolina children by the Judge Baker Children's Center." April 5-7, 2002 http://www.uncg.edu/--regutten/CHD2002 Peggy Charren founder of Action for Children's Television and Barry Guest Speakers: Bennett Bertenthal, , Tatelman, President and Eliot Tatelman, Jacquelynne Eccles, Wolfgang Schneider

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Indeed, the founding of the Institute of better-established research fields. Presi- and her students began more than 20 Child Development at the University of dent Coffman managed to create accep- projects during the first year, and the Minnesota was an outgrowth of the tance for an institute by organizing a studyfaculty budgeted in other departments movement that drew its energy from a committee but, then, an effort by the conducted dozens of studies. Within the broad surge of interest within the UnitedCollege of Education to co-opt the next few years, five best-selling books States in social betterment that might be proposed center was made. Lawrence appeared including the Modern Baby achieved through improved understand- Frank intervened, insisting that the center Book (Anderson and Goodenough) as ing of children and families. be semi-independent or autonomous. well as Child Care and Training (Faegre and Anderson). A grant application to support an Institute of Child Welfare at the university was Clouds appeared on the horizon almost submitted in January, 1925. Funds were immediately: The LSRM changed course requested for a nursery school, an infant in 1928, deciding to put most of its home (never established), an extension resources directly into research. The worker, and research equipment. On budget of the Institute was then February 21, 1925, Frank wrote to Coffman renegotiated in order to assure funding saying, "The plan for education of parents for ten more years at an initially in- is not sufficiently developed...." A hasty creased rate, but then decreasing to revision was submitted on March 10, 1925 zero. including several pages of projects that became the basis for parent education in Funds were also supplied by the LSRM The Institute of Child Welfare circa 1926. the Institute over the next 35 years. In a during the late 1920s to Minnesota and letter dated April 9, 1925, the LSRM said it three other universities (Iowa, Columbia, Establishing the Unit would appropriate $245,000 over five years and Yale) to purchase stock in the to establish the Institute of Child Welfare. fledgling Parents Magazine. The The unit's forerunners included the IowaOne month later, John Anderson, a studentuniversities were never comfortable with Child Welfare Research Station, founded of Robert Yerkes, was recruited from Yale this arrangement given the entrepreneur- in 1917, and the Laura Spelman where he was studying the effects of diet ial independence of George Hecht, the Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM), founded on learning in rats. publisher. Bad press in academe and a in 1918. Lawrence K. Frank, an econo- lawsuit filed by Hecht against the mist, became administrator of programs Parent-Teacher Association finally for children and parents at the LSRM, generated enough bad blood to instigate and he felt strongly that something an offer from the publisher to buy out needed to be done to improve the the universities. The universities, in upbringing of children during their early turn, used the funds for child develop- years. ment activities. At Minnesota, an endowment called "The Parents' By 1923, the LSRM began to fund the Institute Fund" was created that later Station at Iowa and, in 1924, granted supplied half the money needed to monies to Teachers College, Columbia construct an addition to the Child University, to found an institute there. Development Building and that contin- Meanwhile, Frank began conversations ues to supply a small income. with Lotus D. Coffman, President of the University of Minnesota and a former Crisis and Uncertainty college classmate, about the possibility Florence L. Goodenough of a child welfare center at Minnesota, Crisis was never very far away during the early years. The Great Depression one that would be a "friendly rival" to Beginnings Iowa and would be structured similarly caused consternation with academic budgets, and it was clear that the to it. By the summer of 1926, Anderson could university could not be relied upon to submit an impressive report to the LSRM. take up the funding burden once the Some faculty members believed such a The six-member professorial faculty (all LSRM funds were exhausted. President center would be a waste of money when women except for Anderson) hit the funds were badly needed in other, ground running: Florence Goodenough (cont. onp. 8)

5 MEMOIRS

difference, and learning soon became monographs Franz Weinert edited and still arestandard references. Franz (Weinert, F. E & Schneider, W., 1999, Emanuel Weinert was elected member of Individual development from 3 to 12. the International academy of Education, New York: Cambridge University Press). the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the National Academy of The rise of empirical educational Education in the United States. The research in Germany is strongly associ- University of Winzburg and the Free ated with Franz Weinert's name. Many University of Berlin awarded him honorary colleagues came to appreciate and doctorates. With a contagious passion for admire his ability to communicate the research-based improvement of psychological theory and empirical teaching, he went on to influence more findings in a simple but precise way to than two generations of young researchersthe public and in particular to teachers in development and education. He never a skeptical and sensitive audience not Franz Emanuel Weinert stopped being interested and supportive only in Germany. 1930-2001 of the research and careers of his former After the recovery from a stroke some students. His extraordinary memory for years ago, his constitution was less Franz Emanuel Weiner( one of the people and events was legendary. robust than it used to be. But it would Germany's most influential scholars in not be Franz Weinert if this and his developmental and educational re- Relying on the persuasive power of the formal retirement three years ago had search, died on March, 7, 2001 at the better empirical argument, in combination stopped him from working as hard as age of 70. with his balanced way of arguing, Weinert was a valuable and successful consultant ever. To learn about his death was a Unlike most contemporary academic to the administration and government. He shock to all colleagues who recently researchers in the field of education, served on a remarkable list of influential witnessed his active presence at several Weinert began his career in 1950 as a committees at the federal and state levels national and international conferences. dedicated high school teacher in in Germany, covering educational and Franz Emanuel Weinert is survived by Bavaria. Besides his unusually fast developmental topics that range from his wife of 45 years, two daughters and promotion to teacher trainer and school reforming elementary education and one grandchild. principal, he studied psychology at the fellowship programs for graduate students University of Erlangen where he earned to restructuring adult education and Kai Schnabel his Ph.D. in 1957. In 1959 he took his fostering research on aging. University of Michigan first academic position. Being a full professor since 1967, he soon became Being a dyed-in-the-wool director of the Institute of Psychology developmentalist, Weinert published ATTENTION at the University of Heidelberg. In 1981, influential contributions in literally every Student and Postdoc he was a founding member of the Max major research area in Developmental and Planck Institute for Psychological . In his major work, Members! Research in Munich, which soon he analyzed from became the leading center for empirical infancy to late childhood, attending to the We provide a regular "Student psychological research in Germany. impact of structured learning environments Speaks" column. Although the Editor will solicit some columns, From 1980 to 1986, he served as Vice on these processes. This perspective president of the national research lends itself to a line of research that student members may also submit foundation (DFG), the central organiza- simultaneously looks at developmental brief columns for consideration. tion for public research funding in processes and instructional settings. He This is not intended as a venue for Germany. He was on the editorial boards and his colleagues used this paradigm in research, but to provide an outlet of several international journals (British one of his major research projects, the for members' issues and ideas. Journal of , Munich longitudinal study, to show for Submissions should be of general International Journal of Educational various domains that the developmental interest, limited to 500 words or less, Research, and of processes from preschool to middle school and submitted via email or attach- Education, to name a few). His chapters are characterized by stability and continu- ment to [email protected]. Please in the second edition of the Interna- itybut at the same time significantly be aware that space is limited and tional Encyclopedia of Education on moderated by the quality of the instruc- that all submissions cannot be cognitive development, individual tion. Major findings of this study were printed. published in English in one the last 6 , MORE OPPORTUNITIES

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ebb. Stevenson says:

...John Anderson called to say they wanted me to be a consultant about what they should do with the Institute... So I went and it was an unbelievable situation because they had something like 13 or 14, 15,1 think it was, tenurable positions of which only two had tenured people in them and 13 had people who...might have been tenurable but most of them were not. (Stevenson, SRCD Oral History, 1993).

Nursery School circa 1934. Within four years, the parent education program was closed, all but two faculty Coffman asked whether the psycholo- education activities continued. State members had resigned, and recruitment gists on the staff could be supported by funds, however, began to flow into the was begun of staff representing the new the College of Education. The dean's Institute once the war ended. By 1949-50, "experimental child psychology" as well answer: "...I see no immediate possibil- the budget had more than doubled. John as the new look in clinical child psychol- ity." Two sources were then used to Anderson resigned in 1954 and Dale Harrisogy. The unit's name was changed restore the lost foundation monies: Fees succeeded him as Director. At the same officially to the Institute of Child for nursery school and parent education time, the university administration asked Development in 1963. The dozen years services (the former begun in 1925, the that the Institute affiliate itself with one of that Stevenson directed the Institute latter in 1926) were increased. A special the university's colleges rather than were devoted mainly to staff develop- appropriation of $30,000 was requested continue its semi-autonomous state in the ment and improved research funding, from the State Legislature; $5,000 was Office of Academic Administration. although important innovations were approved for 1935-36. Although this issue might seem innocu- also made in both the graduate and ous, it was not. It took two years of undergraduate programs. Faculty development ceased: The wrangling to agree that the unit would be professorial faculty in 1939-40 consisted attached to the College of Education "for Both continuity and discontinuity in the of five of the six individuals who were in purposes of administration." The rancor unit have been evident since: Six place a decade earlier, the sixth (Esther surrounding this administrative shift individuals, originally appointed during McGinnis) having left in 1937 without contributed to early burn-out for Dale Stevenson's term, remain on the faculty being replaced. The Second World War Harris but, before his departure in 1959, theduring the tenure of Ann Masten, the then broke out. Promising new instruc- name of the unit was changed to the seventh and current Director. Most tors such as Dale Harris and William Institute of Child Development and important, the vitality and productivity Martin left for the armed forces, al- Welfare, and a training grant application of the Institute remain undiminished. To though Harris was finally appointed as was submitted to the National Institute of be sure, the research agenda has an assistant professor in 1943-44. The Mental Health (now one of the agency's changed many times during the last effects of the Great Depression and oldest grants). Somehow, the Institute had three-quarters of a century. But the unit World War II are starkly evident in the survived the transition between the time has stayed the coursea tribute to the budget book: Income sank to an all-time when social science funding was under- devotion and wisdom of its founders. low in 1940-41 ($41,615) and, owing to written mostly by the great foundations the shrunken size of the staff, the and the time when the Federal Government [Citations are omitted in these excerpts but may publication rate fell to barely half of began to take over this responsibility. be found in the publications mentioned earlier. what it had been a decade earlier. Copies of the anniversary book may be obtained by writing to Professor Ann S. Masten, Institute Renaissance of Child Development, University of Minne- Oral histories suggest that these were sota, 51 E. River Road, , MN 55455 not the happiest years at the Institute Harold Stevenson became the third (USA).] although training, research, and parent Director in 1959-60. Morale was at a low

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Several in the past have included concerns Carter Symposium. SRCD, with its of children, but the focus of this year's multidisciplinary membership and strong conference was on issues identified in the commitment to interdisciplinary ap- recent Report of the Surgeon General on proaches to research and policy, is at the Children's Mental Health. Topics included forefront in this area. Our members substance abuse, delinquency, school continue to play key roles at national, achievement, and problems in diagnoses regional and state levels in advocating and intervention. Among the approxi- for improved health, and especially mately 200 persons in attendance were mental health, for children and families. academics, practitioners, and those working in both government and private John Hagen sectors on policy and translation of policy Executive Officer to practice. Several members of SRCD were in the audience. Our working groups focused on ways to bring together all the Responding to Nationall persons and resources needed to tackle Tragedy the problems and provide children, youth, and parents with services and opportuni- In the aftermath of the attacks on New minutes from downtown Atlanta, it ties in effective yet practical ways. York City, Washington, and Pennsylva- contains the Carter Presidential Library nia, SRCD responded by posting on its and Museum. However, it is very much a It is encouraging to see that the biologic website (www.srcd.org) links to sites working facility as well, and both former and pharmacologic "revolution" in with information about dealing with the President Carter and Mrs. Carter have is abating, and a more balanced stresses and fear. Such information was their projects and staff housed in very approach is being advocated and imple- necessary and useful for parents and spacious, pleasant facilities. A major mented in most national forums, and this teachers as they tried to meet the needs event of Mrs. Carter 's program on position was especially prominent in the of children. mental health is the annual symposium.

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Marian Wright Edellman anstitute Child Study and Devellopment Center for the Study of Children, Youth and Families University of New Hampshire San Francisco State University Director of the Child Study and Development Center, Director: Associate or Full Professor to direct The Marian Tenure-Track Rank Open Professor: Director's responsibili- Wright Edelman Institute for the Study of Children, Youth ties include maintaining the CSDC's position as a leader in and Families. Qualifications: Earned doctorate in a field childcare and early education, advocating for children and related to children, youth and/or families. Effective leader- families, and providing administrative leadership at the ship, communication, collaboration and administrative skills center. Teach undergraduate/graduate courses in introduc- with faculty, administrators and staff. Experience in manage- tory teaching methods and child development. Doctorate in ment of a complex entity. Experience working with diverse child development, early childhood, or a related field is populations and building university-community partner- required. Experience with early childhood programs is ships. Demonstrated ability to obtain funding. Deadline for required, and experience with campus early childhood applications: January 31, 2002. To apply, submit a letter of laboratory schools is preferred. Applications will be application, vita and three letters of reference that speak to accepted until the position is filled. Send cover letter, vita, the qualifications to: Search Committee, Marian Wright publications, and three letters of reference to: Dr. Corinna Edelman Institute, College of Behavioral and Social Sci- Jenkins Tucker, Department of Family Studies, 215 Pettee ences, SFSU, 1600 Holloway Ave., HSS 335, San Francisco, Hall, UNH, Durham, NH 03824. Email: cjtucker@cisunix. CA 94132. Applications may be submitted electronically to unh.edu; Website: www.unhh.edu/family-studies. UNH is [email protected]. SFSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal committed to excellence through diversity among its faculty Opportunity Employer. Ethnic minorities and individuals and staff and strongly encourages women and minorities to with disabilities are encouraged to apply. apply.

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Ilirognostications or Actfivfnm tifil the Academy: graduate school. The first year my role as a mentor involved working closely Futuffe Devellopments 711ae Expealence of with three girls. I enjoyed the opportu- nity to help the girls learn advanced Given the recent interest in paranormal Mentorshilp concepts in small groups. I was some- and supernatural, plus media attention time teacher, sometime friend and to the occult, the editorial staff of Zaje Harrell occasionally taskmaster. However the DEVELOPMENTS decided that we must University of Michigan most beneficial aspect of the experience keep our readers current by trying to see was gaining the trust of the students in into the future. Careful research using One of the most isolating aspects of this non-threatening educational Psychic-Info and scouring the book of graduate education is the process of environment. As a mentor I provide Nostradamus, we were pleased and becoming securely locked in an ivory constant reinforcement for their aca- amazed to find many predictions about tower. I sought out an interdisciplinary demic and social potential. This is child development in the future. Here aredoctoral program in Psychology and something that it more difficult to do in a just a few of the predictions we discov- Women's Studies, because I anticipated larger classroom setting, and a critical ered. that the broad range of intellectual part of building girls' feeling of academic exchange would be the most enriching efficacy and self-worth. Questions that child development aspect of my scholarship. However, like research in the future will answer: most of my colleagues, after a few years I The following summer I became one of 1. Why are strategies for managing the instructors for the program. When child behavior more effective for designing the larger curriculum I found other people's children? that my experience in small group 2. How do parents who are idealized mentoring relationship made my by six-year-olds turn into embar- classroom lecture time more effective. I rassments once their children reach was aware of the need to reinforce the the teen years? concepts in their small groups, and 3. What are the effective ways to get devised problem-solving activities to research findings used by social help them grasp the statistical concepts. policy makers, parents, and educators? Now, after working with the UM-GIRL 4. Why do children have to stomp in Computer Lab, l-r: Zaje Harrell and middle- program for three years, and presently school girls. the puddle of muddy water when planning for year four, I am still in walking down the street? contact with some of my young found it harder to find the passion for the 5. How to convince legislators and mentees. They will call or e-mail if they academic process as a worthwhile neighbors that professors really do haven't heard in from me in a while, and contribution, and I was losing my work more than 12 hours each enjoy it when we can visit them at undergraduate sense of activism. At the week? school. As the girls have moved into end of my second year of my graduate 6. What does it mean when children adolescence I have been able to provide studies there was a solicitation for say "nothing happened at school"? counsel about those difficult teenage graduate student women to mentor a new 7. Can cloning be an effective tool for challenges, from class work to first program called Using Math Girls accomplishing multitasking and boyfriends. This form of outreach, Investigate Real Life (UM-GIRL). The attending simultaneous meetings? conducted in a University setting also program was as an intervention with rising 8. Why do the researchers who rekindled my faith that it was possible to seventh graders who were at risk for losing demand organization and attention do meaningful applied work in the interest in math and science. The girls to detail have the messiest offices? academy. Through my continued would be taught about social kience 9. How do we insure that every child relationship with my girls I have also research methods and statistics as a way grows up loved and well cared for? been able to see them mature into of using math to answer research 10. What to do to keep grown children wonderfully unique, amusing, and questions they found interesting. I was from moving back home? intelligent young women, who know immediately interested in the potential for 11. Why music from our youth always they are capable of achieving their seems better than the current fare? such a program so I signed on. goals. 12. Where is all the email coming from and who started sending around When asked, I say that my UM-GIRL those jokes??? experience is the single best thing I did in 12 10 SRCD NOTICES

Newmks by SRCD Submititiraig f©r 2003 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Members ieramilalt Meethllg O 0 O SRCD 0 New Process O 0 Frank Ascione & Phil Arkow (Eds.) O Contact Information 0 O 0 (2001). Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, The SRCD Executive Office plans to have O 0 and Animal Abuse: Linking the Circles the submission and review process ready O 0 oMembership: o of Compassion for Prevention and in electronic form for the 2003 Biennial o Tel: (734) 998-6524 o Intervention. West Lafayette, IN: PurdueMeeting. The implications for this giant o Fax: (734) 998-6569 o o o University Press. technological step are many. More o Email: [email protected] o reviewers from around the world will be o Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Program & Newsletter: o able to participate in the submission Tel: (734) 998-6578 Turkanis, & Leslee Bartlett (2001). o o review process, submitters will not have to o Fax: (734) 998-6569 o Learning Together: Children and o rush to the post office to get their submis- o Email: [email protected] Adults in a School Community. New o o sion postmarked, and a user friendly, oPermissions & Exhibits: o York: Oxford University Press. o o searchable version of the meeting program o Tel: (734) 998-6578 o Emmy E. Werner & Ruth S. Smith (2001). will be available on the SRCD website in o Fax: (734) 998-6569 o o Email: [email protected] o Journeys from Childhood to Midlife: January 2003. o o Risk, Resilience, and Recovery. Ithaca, o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Watch for complete details in the 2003 Call NY: Press. for Submissions to be mailed in April 2002. OBITUARIES

Millie Al my died August 15, 2001, at education. She retired from the Graduate academic and emotional development. her home in Berkeley; she was 86. Prof. School of Education, University of Memorial contributions may be made Almy played a leading role in changing California, Berkeley in 1980. Millie began to the Student Advocacy Center, 2301 the focus of preschool education in her SRCD membership in 1958. Platt, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. the U.S. During the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of World War Herbert Geuss, born August 3, 1947, Alberta Engvall Siegel died November II, she worked at model programs for died in June 2001. Since 1975 Prof. Dr. 3, 2001 after a lengthy battle with younger children at Vassar and Yale, Geuss taught at Osnabruk University in cancer. Alberta received her Ph.D. in and then went on to direct a regional Vechta, Germany. He was deeply psychology from Stanford University alliance of federally funded preschools involved in the university, having served in 1955. She was one of the first in the in the Buffalo, NY area. Following her as the first director of the Psychology field to deal with the adverse impact of hands-on work in nursery schools, Department after the university became television violence on children. Millie completed her Ph.D. at Teachers independent. Dr. Geuss was a major Alberta also believed that social College, Columbia University. She presence in the lives of both faculty and science research should influence joined the staff there and taught from students. He became a member of SRCD public policy and was instrumental in 1952-1971. Dr. Almy moved on to join in 1982. establishing a fellowship program in the faculty at the University of the 1970s placing scholars in the California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Carol Midgley died peacefully on Novem- Washington offices of members of the she founded and coordinated an ber 23, 2001 at the age of 68. She had been House and Senate. In addition to interdisciplinary program for the a member of SRCD since 1996. Carol serving as editor of the Journal of preparation of personnel for key received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychol- Child Development from 1964 to 1968, positions in daycare and related child ogy from the University of Michigan. She and memoir editor of the SRCD development services. Dr. Almy served joined the faculty of the Combined newsletter for many years, Alberta as the president of the National Program in Education and Psychology at served in many other capacities as a Association of Nursery Educators and that same institution. There Dr. Midgley member of SRCD from 1956 until her was a national leader in research, oversaw large-scale research studies death. Donations may be made to the policy, and practice in early childhood investigating the relation between the American Friends Service Committee learning environment and early adolescent or Planned Parenthood. OPPORTUNITIES !

Washington Report...(cont. fromp. 3) workgroup to the Coordinating Commit- shift in the number of families in need of 1. The school should have strong tee at the end of this year. Work on child care since the 1970s. The report, policies against gun possession and defining the final scope of the study and "The Future of Children: Caring for Infants be safe places for students to learn on selecting the main hypotheses will and Toddlers," found that the number of and develop. continue in 2002. The NCS has tremen- mothers with children under the age of dous potential to provide research three in the workforce has almost doubled 2. School officials should exercise sound resources and a rich and diverse data- in the last 30 yearsfrom 34 percent to 61 discretion that is consistent with base for secondary analyses. The study percent. In addition, nearly 5 million of principles of due process and consid- promises to be the most informative those 11 million infants and toddlers spend ers the individual student and the large-scale research on child develop- at least 25 hours a week in the care of particular circumstances of miscon- ment undertaken in the United States. someone who is not their parent. duct. For more information on the NCS, visit 3. Alternatives to expulsion or referral www.nichd.nih.gov/despr/cohort/. The for prosecution should be developed OPC will continue to participate in the AA Opposes Sehooll 'Zero that will improve student behavior and activities of the NCS as it moves forward. Tolierarnee Pollides school climate without making Read the Washington Update each schools dangerous. month for information about new developments in the NCS. Earlier this year, the American Bar Asso- The ABA also adopted resolutions on ciation voted to oppose schools' "zero immigration law, supporting the appoint- tolerance" disciplinary policies that fail to ment of counsel at government expense Child Care Has Doublled take into account the circumstances or for unaccompanied children at all stages nature of an offense or an accused of immigration processes; opposing the A study from the David and Lucile student's history. In taking this action, the use of secret evidence in immigration Packard Foundation (http:// ABA's policy-making House of Delegates proceedings; and urging that gender- www.packard.ord), reports a dramatic supported three principles concerning based persecution be recognized as a school discipline: ground for asylum.

JOB OPENING

Office of Educattlionall Research and knprovernent (OEM) U.S. Department of Education The incumbent serves as a Senior Associate in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OEM), U.S. Department of Education. These are excepted service appointments of up to three years for scientific and technical personnel, with the possibility of re-appointment upon completion of the initial term. A doctoral degree is required. Incumbents will develop plans for agency support of research; develop and manage research activities and programs carried out or funded by theagency; evaluate research activities; supervise, consult with, or advise staff; analyze data and information related to research;engage in research activities, such as attendance at scientific conferences; conduct research and publish scholarly work; andprepare written products to convey research-based knowledge and information to a variety of audiences. Salary Range: $44,352- $114,224. Salary depends on experience and skills. Qualifications: OERI Senior Associate requires a doctoral degree or equivalent experience in an appropriate field, three years of research-related experience pertinent to the needs of OEM, and demonstration of a sustained high level of achievement inan area of specialization. Scientific, professional and technical personnel with this type of appointment have achieved wide recognition, are usually at the frontier of their area of expertise and/or, have substantial practical experience directly related to OEM interests and requirements. How to apply: Send a resume and letter of reference. If related to your qualifications for this vacancy, please attach copies of awards, including justification or basis for the awards, and no more than three publications. You must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for consideration. Please see US Department of Education website for complete information: http://www.ed.gov/offices/ OM/edjobs.html ED Job Openings/Group 1. Where to apply: Applicants should send a letter of interest, a resume, and copies of no more than three publications to Sue Betka, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20208.

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JOB OPENING W. T. GRANT SCHOLARS AWARDS Mt. Hope 'Family Center Wililliam T. Grant Foundadon INVITATION FOR APPLICATIONS: Each year the William T. Mt. Hope Family Center, a research and clinical facility in Grant Foundation awards up to $300,000 ($60,000 per year for developmental in the University of five (5) years) to each of five post-doctoral (but pre-tenure, Rochester's Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in tenure-track) scholars from diverse disciplines to conduct Psychology, has an opening for a research to research that deepens and broadens the knowledge base in join our faculty in conducting research in the area of Devel- areas that contribute to creating a society that values young opmental Psychopathology. We are especially interested in people (age 8-25) as a resource and helps them reach their candidates with a strong background and interest in conduct- potential. Now in its 22nd year, the W. T. GRANT SCHOL- ing research in the area of severe mental illness. Individuals ARS PROGRAM promotes positive youth development by with expertise in neurobiological and psychophysiological supporting scholarship in three areas: (1) Original research methods are especially encouraged to apply. Opportunities on youth development. (2) Evaluations and analyses of for collaborative research utilizing an extensive longitudinal programs, policies, laws, and systems affecting young database in the areas of child maltreatment and offspring of people. (3) Original research on adult attitudes about and depressed mothers also exist. Required qualifications include of young people, and on the consequences of a Ph.D. in clinical or developmental psychology. Competitive those attitudes and perceptions. Deadline for applications salary and excellent benefits. Interested candidates should for the 2003 Awards is July 1, 2002. For more information, send a letter of interest, vita, reprints/preprints, and three visit www.wtgrantfoundation.org or contact: W. T. Grant letters of reference to: Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., Director, Mt. Scholars Program/William T. Grant Foundation, 570 Lexing- Hope Family Center, 187 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY ton Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, New York 10022-6837. 14608. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Phone: 212-752-0071; Email: fse,wtgrantfdn.org.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY JOB OPENING

Mt. Hope Familly Center Mt. Hope Family Center University of Iochester University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center, a research and clinical facility in Mt. Hope Family Center, a research and clinical facility in developmental psychopathology in the University of developmental psychopathology in the University of Rochester's Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Rochester's Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, is seeking a clinical psychologist invested in Psychology, is seeking applications for a full-time, two-year integrating research and clinical interests. Ph.D. in clinical postdoctoral research fellow. The research fellow has the psychology with a strong developmental emphasis and opportunity to engage in research in a number of ongoing eligibility for licensure in New York State are required. studies involving high-risk children, youth, and families. Experience with school-age children and economically Projects currently focus on child maltreatment (infancy disadvantaged populations is desirable. Position involves through adolescence) and offspring of mothers with major conducting research in developmental psychopathology depressive disorder. Extensive longitudinal databases on and taking a leadership role in coordination an ongoing high-risk populations afford opportunities for exploring longitudinal study of maltreated children and a preventive diverse developmental questions. The position requires intervention research program. Access available to completion of a doctorate in clinical or developmental extensive longitudinal database on maltreated children and psychology or related field. Competence in quantitative families. Position includes a faculty appointment in the methods is desired. Interested candidates should send a Department of Psychology. Send vita, three letters of letter of interest, vita, reprints/preprints, and three letters of recommendation and copies of up to three representative recommendation to: Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D, Director, Mt. manuscripts to: Dante Cicchetti Ph.D., Director, Mt. Hope Hope Family Center, 187 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY Family Center, 187 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY 14608. 14608. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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JOB OPENING

Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles

Applied Human Development: The Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles announces an open rank, tenure-track faculty position in Applied Human Development.

The successful candidate must have a program of developmental research that is relevant to educational and other applied settings, and that demonstrates the candidate's sensitivity to human development in a multiethnic context and heror his ability to take a multidisciplinary perspective. Although the particular area of research is open, we are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: (1) achievement motivation and its relation to learning and instruction; (2) the intersection between development, learning and culture; and (3) social-emotional development, both typical and atypical. The Department is particularly interested in and values candidates who have experience working in settings and with students from diverse backgrounds. We are also interested in candidates who are engaged in research that advancesour understanding of how race, ethnicity, gender and disability impact on human development.

The candidate will be affiliated with the Division of Psychological Studies in Education (PSE) in the Department of Education. PSE is one of the top ranked programs in the country that offers training in the application of child development theory and research to real-life problems and that integrates academic training with experience in settings that are relevant to children and families. The PSE program has been continually supported during the past two decades by an NIMH training grant in applied human development.

QUALIFICATIONS: An earned doctorate in Developmental Psychology, Human Development, or a related field; record of research and scholarly publications; ability to teach and advise students at the graduate level. The successful candidate must have the promise of a strong research record, a willingness to generate extramural funding, and the ability to mentor predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows supported by the NIMH training grant.

TO APPLY: Send application letter describing your research and teaching interests, along with curriculum vitae and sample publications.Applicants at the Associate or Full Professor levels should include the names and addresses of three references. Applicants at the Assistant Professor level should have at least three letters of reference sent directly to:

Daniel G. Solorzano, Chair Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

SALARY Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

STARTING DATE: July 1, 2002 (teaching duties begin September 2002).

DEADLINE: Screening of completed applications will begin on February 28, 2002 and continue until the position is filled.

FOR MORE INFO: Contact Prof. , Chair of the Search Committee, at shgrahamaucla.edu.

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups .

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10th Annual Conference on Parent cover letter outlining the nominee's The Section on Child Maltreatment Education, February 8-9, 2002 at the accomplishments to date and anticipated (Section 1 of Division 37, APA) an- University of North Texas, Denton, TX. future contributions. This letter should nounces its third annual dissertation Preconference, "Stepping Stones," and describe the nominee's major accomplish- award. A $400 prize will be awarded to Training Calendar, February 7, 2002. The ments related to the field of child maltreat- one successful graduate student Conference on Parent Education is a ment and how the nominee's work has had applicant to assist with expenses in national 3-day interdisciplinary confer- an impact on the field; (2) The nominee's conducting dissertation research on the ence for policy-makers, students, and current curriculum vitae; (3) One letter of topic of child maltreatment. Applicants professionals, including parent/family support; and (4) If possible, other relevant are requested to submit: (1) a letter of educators, child and family advocates, supporting material, as appropriate (e.g., interest, indicating how the applicant early childhood interventionists, family no more than two articles authored by the would use the award funds toward the support professionals, and school/ nominee). NOMINATION DEADLINE: completion of the dissertation research, parent liaisons. For more information Postmarked by March 15, 2002. SEND (2) a 100 word abstract, and (3) a five contact: Rebecca Edwards: (940) 369- NOMINATIONS OR DIRECT QUES- page proposal summarizing the research 8740 / [email protected]; or TIONS TO: Gail S. Goodman, Department to be conducted. Please submit applica- Arminta Jacobson: (940) 369-8743 / of Psychology, University of California, tions by April 1, 2002, to: Dr. Patricia [email protected]. edu; or visit One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616; Hashima, Institute on Family and the website: www.unt.edu/cpe. (530) 752-6981; [email protected]. Neighborhood Life, Clemson University, 158 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson, (cont. onp. 12) Asset-Based Conference: Innovations Southwestern Society for Research in in Strengths-Based Family, School, and Human Development 2002 Conference Cilassified Ads Community Practices. Grove Park Inn Announcement: Call for Papers. The Resort, Asheville, North Carolina. conference will be held March 21-23, 2002 INDIANA UNIVERSITY. An NIH- March 10-12, 2002. Confirmed Keynote in Austin, TX. For more information, funded postdoctoral fellowship is presenters will be Cherie Enns, Search contact the program chairs: Dr. David available for multidisciplinary Institute, and Harriet McAdoo. For Cross, Psychology Dept., Texas Christian training in developmental processes information on registration and University, Box 298920, Fort Worth, TX attendance, please contact Lisa Noack, in human infancy and childhood and 76129, [email protected] (817) 257-7410, fax with nonhuman animals. Training [email protected], or visit the ABC (817) 257-7681 or to Dr. Rebecca Glover, Conference page at www.puckettorg. emphasizes the integrative study of Counseling, Development, and Higher processes of change with faculty in Education, University of North Texas, Box Psychology, Computer Science, APA Early Career Award for Outstand- 13857, Denton, TX 76203-6857, , Kinesiol- ing Contributions to Practice in the [email protected], (817) 565-4876. ogy, and Speech & Hearing Sci- Field of Child Maltreatment. The ences. Applicants from these Section on Child Maltreatment of "Motivational Factors in the Etiology of disciplines who wish to be trained in Division 37 (Child, Youth, and Family Drug Abuse," 50th Annual Nebraska basic developmental theory and Services) of the American Psychological Symposium on Motivation, March 28 & 29, research are encouraged to apply. Association is proud to announce the Candidates must be a U. S. citizen, 2002. For the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of an Early Career Award Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, we national or permanent resident. program. This year, nominations are have invited leading scholars in the area to Please send vita, research/training sought for an Early Career Award for interests, publications & 3 recom- critically discuss motivational factors in Practice to be made in 2002. Self- the etiology of drug abuse. Please accept mendation letters to: Developmental nominations are welcome. Nominees Training, Psychology Department, this invitation to participate in this should be investigators who have made integrative and thought-provoking Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th St., substantial contributions to practice meeting. Attendance is FREE (i.e., no Bloomington, IN 47405. Applications relevant to child maltreatment within registration fee). We also encourage you will be accepted until the position is eight years of receiving a terminal to present some of your own cutting-edge filled. Women and minorities degree (e.g., PhD, JD, DSW, or MSW) research. See our web-site for more detail especially encouraged to apply. For and who have demonstrated the www.unl.edu/psychoneuropharm or further information, please refer to potential to continue such contribu- http://www.indiana.edu/psych/ contact Rick Bevins (402)472-1189 or tions. Nominees need not be current [email protected]. postdoc/multidis.html. Indiana Section on Child Maltreatment members. University is an EEO/AA Employer. To Nominate, send 4 copies of: (1) A 15 1 7 SRCD 's website: MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS www.srcd.org

SC 29634-0132; (864) 656-6711 or 656- Years: Pathways to the Future," to be held 6271. Applicants will be notified of the June 26-29, 2002 in Washington, DC. decision in mid June. The award will be Registration information will be mailed and SRCD Developments presented at the annual meeting of the available at http://www.headstartresearch American Psychological Association in conf. net on January 15, 2002. For ques- Editor Chicago, Illinois, August 22-25, 2002. tions regarding registration, please contact Pamela Trotman Reid Bethany Chirico at [email protected] or [email protected] (703) 821-3090, ext. 261. For information The Society for Research on Adoles- regarding conference programming, please Managing Editor cence will hold its 9th Biennial Meeting contact Dr. Faith Lamb-Parker at Thelma Tucker April 11-14, 2002, in New Orleans, LA. [email protected] or (212) 305-4154. [email protected] The submission deadline is past. For additional information, visit the SRA Memoirs Editor website (www.S-R-A.org) or send an Fragile Families Summer Data Work- TBA email message to shop. The Social Indicators Survey Center [email protected]. at the Columbia University School of The Newsletter is published four times a year: Circulation is approximately Social Work is accepting applications for 5,400. The newslettter is distributed to the Fragile Families Summer Data Work- The Society invites you to all members of the SRCD including shop to be held July 15-19, 2002 at attend the 32nd Annual Meeting to take researchers, practitioners in the field of Columbia University. Through lectures and place in Philadelphia, , child development, social and behavioral hands-on instruction, participants will gain sciences, social workers, administrators, June 6-8, 2002. Please visit the Jean an in-depth understanding of data in the physicians, nurses, educators, and Piaget Society website http:// Fragile Families Study. This workshop students. www.piaget.org for submission details or targets advanced graduate students, write to: Eric Amsel, Department of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty The newsletter publishes announce- Psychology, Weber State University, ments, articles, and ads that may be of from social sciences disciplines who 1202 University Circle, Ogden, UT interest to members of the Society, as possess basic quantitative data analysis 84408-1202, e-mail: eamsel@weberedu. space permits. skills. Most travel expenses will be covered. Minorities are encouraged to Copy deadlines: The Society for Research in Adult apply. For additional information and March 1 Development announces the 17th Annual applications, go to www.siscenter.org, or June 1 Adult Development Symposium, Friday - call (212) 854-9046. Applications are due September 1 Sunday, June 21-23, 2002, at Pace Plaza March 15th. December 1 Campus, New York, NY. The Society is dedicated to the study of positive adult For advertising rates--website display Nominations are invited for the Eleanor E. ads, classified or display ads for the development from an interdisciplinary Maccoby Book Award to be presented by newsletter--contact the SRCD Office or perspective. Positive adult development Division 7 of APA in the year 2002. Books tetucker@umich. edu. refers to life-span development culminat-published in 2001 that have had or promise ing in positive changes starting in late to have a profound impact on developmen- Governing Council adolescence or later. Email Michael tal psychology are eligible. Edited volumes President Ross D. Parke Lamport Commons at Commons@ are not eligible. Self-nominations are Past President Michael Rutter tiac.net for a Call for Papers. Submis- permissible. If you have a favorite book on President-Elect Esther Thelen sions must be postmarked by February your reading list, you are encouraged to Secretary W. Andrew Collins 9,2002. submit it. Please provide the title, Members Ronald G. Barr author(s)' full name(s), publisher, and Jeanne Brooks Gunn The Administration on Children, Youth publisher's address, if possible, along with Cynthia Garcia Coll Sandra Graham a brief description of the book and capsule and Families, U.S. Department of Health Donald J. Hernandez and Human Services, in collaboration summary of its importance for understand- Aletha Huston with Columbia University's Mailman ing the psychology of human develop- J. Steven Remick School of Public Health and the Society ment. Please send nominations to Deborah Mary K. Rothbart for Research in Child Development, Lowe Vandell (dvandell(facstaff.wisc.edu Arnold Sameroff announces Head Start's Sixth National or Department of Educational Psychology, Student Rep Anthony Salandy Research Conference, "The First Eight 1025 West Johnson Street, University of Ex Officio John W. Hagen Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)

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Notes fronni the Executive Officer Focus on... 20 Studies that Revollutkmized Chilld Site Seilectkm for SRCD1:;lienniall Nye oklugy Meetings Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. As spring approaches, the meetings of many professional Heidelberg College societies will be held. In our field there are probably a half dozen relevant meetings coming up, and hotels and conventions centers across the country are preparing for their busiest season. Since the meetings of SRCD are held only every other year, the success of our meetings is especially important to all involved. We are highly unusual in that about half of those participating are not SRCD members. I am often asked if we would consider an annual format. Governing Council is committed to the biennial schedule for two major reasons. There is consensus that the quality of the presentations is consistently very high, which helps to make our meetings special for both members and nonmembers. We are convinced that a biennial schedule is a major reason. Also, there are now many meetings of other associations and groups that are held in SRCD's off year. Thus, it would jeopardize their attendance as well as ours if we chose to meet every spring.

The issue of the location of meetingsis also often discussed and we receive a wide range of input.I am very pleased to Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. and daughter Sarah say that for the next two meetings we INSIDE I do not know if I am the only one who does this, but when I have secured think about child psychology, I simply cannot help but think vc) The Millennium Fellows Program 2 locales that will in terms of scientific references. Every time I read a new Washington Office Report 3 work very well for scientific article in the field, I process it with respect to our needs and Job Openings 5, 6, 7 certain other seminal pieces in the literature. In fact, I scour specifications. In Fellowship Opportunity 9, 11 2003 we are meeting (cont. onp. 4) Memoirs 6-7 in Tampa, utilizing SRCD Notices 10 the downtown Mark Your Calendar! Obituaries 10 Convention Center and the nearby Announcements 11 July hotels. Information Children & the Legal System 12 23 SRCD Submissions Postmark Deadline concerning Developments submission submissions as well guidelines 12 30 SRCD Submissions Online Deadline SRCD Contract Information 12 (coM. onp. 9)

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The Milliermfitum IFelLows minorities will account for 47.2% of the created to address these issues in a population (American Psychological proactive manner. 'Program: Eile Ilpfing to Association, 1996; Day, 1996). Between the years 2000 and 2020, the number of MFP offers minority students who are ufiEld TOMOTTOVes minority children aged 5 to 17 is estimated selected as Fellows both Junior and Sehollars to grow at a faster rate than that of White Senior Mentors to provide guidance and children, and in turn, the proportions of support in their pursuit of educational Marlene Zepeda White children will begin to decrease and professional goals. Individuals from California State University, Los (Young & Smith, 1997). Like ethnic diverse racial, ethnic, and disciplinary Angeles minority groups as a whole, minority groups are recruited to serve as Member, Ethnic and Racial Issues children will begin to outnumber the mentors. Through participation in the Committee current majority in their age groups. MFP, students are given the Presently, youth of Hispanic origin are the opportunity to attend the SRCD Biennial majority in their age group, representing Meeting as well as preconference 37.7% of the population under age 18 activities and field trips. This facilitates (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2000). Further, valuable exposure to the field and in 1995, 31% of Hispanic children came encourages interaction with both their from non-English speaking households Mentors, as well as students, and the percentage of non-English participants and professionals who are speaking children is likely to increase as in attendance. the rate of immigration of minority groups increases (Young & Smith, 1997). In 1999, 20 Fellows were funded to attend the biennial meeting in Given these population shifts, educational Albuquerque, New Mexico and were and professional institutions are linked with advanced graduate students confronted with the urgent issue of and senior professionals. A group of 23 addressing questions of specific import to Fellows attended the 2001 SRCD the welfare and healthy development of Biennial Meeting in Minneapolis, minority children. In the years to come, Minnesota. The University of Marlene Zepeda child development professionals will need Minnesota hosted a day of workshops, to devote considerable scholarly effort to social gatherings and discussions There is an expanding presence of racial and ethnic-related studies. Despite designed to enhance the goals of the ethnic minority populations in the this awareness, there exists an under- program. Ann Masten, the keynote United States with a corresponding representation of minorities in the speaker for the event, invited all of the need to address the specific educationaleducational pipeline and this situation is MFP participants to engage in activities and psychological concerns of these particularly acute in higher education. aimed to support the personal and fast growing populations. Recognizing educational development of minority this need, Frances Degen Horowitz and The disproportionately low number of students. La Rue Allen developed the Millennium minority students in graduate programs, Fellows Program (MFP) with initial the ranks of Ph.D. recipients, colleges and Past participants of the MFP have funding from the Foundation for Child university faculty positions and research offered positive feedback about their Development, the W. T Grant careers is acknowledged to be a national experiences and have described their Foundation and the Society for issue. While underrepresented groups at attendance at the SRCD Biennial Research in Child Development. MFP undergraduate institutions are expected to Meeting as a pivotal moment in their was developed as a vehicle to increase, progressively fewer minorities personal and professional development. encourage and support undergraduates are entering graduate school. This Presently, the Ethnic and Racial from underrepresented groups to pursuedecrease in graduate enrollment is Minority Issues Committee is surveying graduate work in child development and attributed, in part, to the lack of minority the 1999 and 2001 Fellows and Junior other related disciplines. faculty role models and mentors in and Senior Mentors about their psychology and other related fields as experiences with the program. This Currently, about 1 in 3 U.S. citizens is well as the perceived lack of support for survey will inform the committee on how from an ethnic minority background. It research on ethnic minority children and best to strengthen the program so as to is projected that by 2050 ethnic families (APA, 1997). The MFP was (cont. on p. 5)

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subsidies for childcare to working families. Cain Aill It includes money to be used to pay for Researchers... childcare slots and for quality improve- ments. A new ChildCare Caucus in the Lauren Fasig House is seeking to make the many SRCD Office for Policy & childcare issues in our society (quality, Communications affordability, etc.) prominent in policy discussions. Additionally, the Office for Instead of a focus on new funding Educational Research Improvement, the initiatives, I want to call all researchers research arm of the Department of to attend to the recent changes in tone Education, is waiting on re-authorization and emphasis coming from the of the Individuals with Disabilities Washington front on the topics of Education Act. Russ Whitehurst, the children, education, and educational Director of OERI, has promising plans for policies, and on the need for our expert the Office, and supportive legislation Lauren Fasig attention. could greatly assist in making those plans a reality. proponents. We are the people from This year has the potential to be a whom our policymakers need to hear. landmark year in terms of child and Legislation, which establishes the Office There appears to be an opportunity to family policy. Even though priorities for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency effect positive change; one that we have shifted since September 1 1th, Prevention as well as the Younger should not miss. media coverage suggests that the Bush Americans Act, is awaiting completion. administration is still placing a high Every policymaker, whether at the local, priority on education and early child- state, or federal level, is looking for hood preparation. Congress also is We, as researchers with exper- someone who can provide balanced, quite vocal about policies that support tise in child development, are credible information without bias. We children and families, particularly the credible source, and we are those trustworthy experts. Members educational policies. This winter have the knowledge that would of SRCD are experts in child develop- Congress passed and the President ment and we can make contributions in signed the most sweeping educational engage new proponents. We are the people from whom our two ways, by informing policy makers reform legislation in 35 years. The and by enlightening the media. President has spoken about the need to policymakers need to hear. increase resources to help children Inform Policy Makers learn to read and to prepare them to learn. Early childhood education is Head Start re-authorization is around the Get to know your local, state, or federal discussed in venues where these words corner. The protection of humans in representative. Take the plungecall were previously undefined and unsup- research is receiving ongoing attention, the local office one day and tell the ported. and we can expect some additional appropriate staff person who you are, reforms of the protections system in the what you do, and what your policy Many programs that affect children and near future. National studies of children interests are. Tell him or her that you families are due (or past due) to be and youth are also under review. would like to talk with the representa- considered by Congress and the Bush tive about those issues, and that you administration this year. Among the The well-being of children is being are available as a resource to the most visible is the Temporary Assis- discussed more broadly than it has been representative. Invite the representative tance to Needy Families (TANF) in years, and it is being discussed in new to see your lab, tapes of your work, etc. legislation, better known as Welfare venues. People who are addressing these You do not have to ask for anything; Reform. A re-authorization bill has been issues are seeking information from just make yourself available. When you introduced in the House that considers credible sources, and the time is ripe to see relevant activities in the news, call the need for TANF to include provision create interest with those who were your representative to remind him or her for quality childcare and other child- previously unconcerned. We, as research- that you are out there, available. By all friendly provisions. The Child Care ers with expertise in child development, means, when you have relevant Development Block Grant (CCDBG) is are the credible source, and we have the information to share, call, fax, or email. also due for re-authorization. CCDBG is knowledge that would engage new the federal program that provides (cont. on p. 5) SURVEY RESULTS

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reference sections to see if certain other 17. Werner, E. E., & Smith, R. S. (2001). 6.Thomas, A., Chess, S., & Birch, pieces have been cited. And if not, I Journeys from childhood to H.G. (1968). Temperament and want to know why not? midlife: Risk, resiliency, and behavior disorders in recovery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell childhood. New York: New York I suppose you could call this a form of University Press. University Press. social stereotyping and prejudice. 16. Baumrind, D. (1971). Current 5. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Perhaps. But in my mind, it helps me patterns of parental authority. structures. The Hague: Mouton. understand various authors' Developmental Psychology 4.Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. perspectives better. If I know which Monographs, 4 (1, part 2). C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). scientific pieces of literature new 15. Baillageon, R. (1987). Object Patterns of attachment. authors are relying upon, I can better permanence in 3.5- and 4.5-month- Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. judge how wrong they are! old infants. Developmental 3. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment Psychology, 23, 655-664. and loss, Vol. 1. New York: After a couple decades of reading 14) Anastasi, A. (1958). Heredity, Basic Books. thousands of articles throughout child environment, and the question 2.Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in psychology, I have developed my own "How?" Psychological Review, society: The development of personal conceptual system for what 89, 976 - 984. higher psychological seem to be the most outstanding pieces 13. Hubei, D. H., & Wiesel, T. N. processes. Cambridge, MA: of literature in child psychology. Of (1965). Receptive fields of cells in Press. course, it has occurred to me that my striate cortex of very young, central references may not be so visually inexperienced kittens. And the Number One Most important to other people. They might Journal of Neurophysiology, 26, Revolutionary Study published be legends only in my own mind; 944-1002. since 1950 is... clearly, there is room for differences of 12. Sameroff, A. J., & Chandler, M. J. opinion. So, as a service to the Society I (1975). Reproductive risk and the 1.Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of undertook the task of determining the, continuum of caretaker causality. in children. New once-and-for-all, absolutely final, truly In F. D. Horowitz (Ed.), Review of York: International Universities real list of the Most Revolutionary child development research (Vol. Press. Studies in Child Psychology. I sought 4). Chicago: University of Chicago the opinions of more than 1,500 Press. Correspondence regarding this randomly selected, doctoral-level 11. Bell, R. Q. (1968). A reinterpreta- project can be directed to the members of the Society about which tion of the direction of effect in author at [email protected] studies, published since 1950, deserve studies of socialization. the title "Most Revolutionary." (See Psychological Review, 75, 81-95. Developments, 44(1), Winter 2001, for 10. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different the survey questions.) Here for the first voice: Psychological theory and Heiping Chi_dren Dee time, I am making this list available. women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. with Sept. 11 20 Most Revolutionary Studies 9.Bandura, A., Ross, D.,& Ross, S. (1961). Transmission of In the aftermath of the events of (published since 1950) aggression through imitation of September llth, professionals from aggressive models. Journal of many disciplines, universities, and other 20. Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. Abnormal and Social Psychology, educational groups rushed to provide (1978). Does the chimpanzee 63, 375-382. information to parents and teachers. have a theory of mind? The 8.Harlow, H., & Harlow, M. (1965). Many organizations posted information Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The affectional systems. In A. (or links to information) about how to /, 515-526. Schrier, H. Harlow, & F. Stollnitz help children deal with the fears that 19. Fantz, R. L. (1961). The origin of (Eds.), Behavior of non-human rise from the traumas associated with form . Scientific primates. New York: Academic terrorism and other forms of violence. In American, 204, 66-72. Press. addition to SRCD those posting helpful 18. Brown, R. (1973). A first 7.Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward information were: the American Acad- language: The early stages. an experimental ecology of human emy of Pediatrics, American Psycho- Cambridge, MA: Harvard development. American logical Association, PBS Kids, and University Press. Psychologist, 32, 513-531. Tolerance.Org. 4 4 4 20 Studies (cont. fromp. 1) reference sections to see if certain other 17. Werner, E. E., & Smith, R. S. (2001). 6. Thomas, A., Chess, S., & Birch, pieces have been cited. And if not, I Journeys from childhood to H.G. (1968). Temperament and want to know why not? midlife: Risk, resiliency, and behavior disorders in recovery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell childhood. New York: New York I suppose you could call this a form of University Press. University Press. social stereotyping and prejudice. 16. Baumrind, D. (1971). Current 5. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic Perhaps. But in my mind, it helps me patterns of parental authority. structures. The Hague: Mouton. understand various authors' Developmental Psychology 4. Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. perspectives better. If I know which, Monographs, 4 (1, part 2). C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). scientific pieces of literature new 15. Baillageon, R. (1987). Object Patterns of attachment. authors are relying upon, I can better permanence in 3.5- and 4.5-month- Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. judge how wrong they are! old infants. Developmental 3. Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment Psychology, 23, 655-664. and loss, Vol. 1.New York: After a couple decades of reading 14) Anastasi, A. (1958). Heredity, Basic Books. thousands of articles throughout child environment, and the question 2. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in psychology, I have developed my own "How?" Psychological Review, society: The development of personal conceptual system for what 89, 976 - 984. higher psychological seem to be the most outstanding pieces 13. Hubei, D. H., & Wiesel, T. N. processes. Cambridge, MA: of literature in child psychology. Of (1965). Receptive fields of cells in Harvard University Press. course, it has occurred to me that my striate cortex of very young, central references may not be so visually inexperienced kittens. And the Number One Most important to other people. They might Journal of Neurophysiology, 26, Revolutionary Study published be legends only in my own mind; 944-1002. since 1950 is... clearly, there is room for differences of 12. Sameroff, A. J., & Chandler, M. J. opinion. So, as a service to the Society I (1975). Reproductive risk and the 1.Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of undertook the task of determining the, continuum of caretaker causality. intelligence in children. New once-and-for-all, absolutely final, truly In F. D. Horowitz (Ed.), Review of York: International Universities real list of the Most Revolutionary child development research (Vol. Press. Studies in Child Psychology. I sought 4). Chicago: University of Chicago the opinions of more than 1,500 Press. Correspondence regarding this randomly selected, doctoral-level 11. Bell, R. Q. (1968). A reinterpreta- project can be directed to the members of the Society about which tion of the direction of effect in author at wdixone,heidelberg.edu studies, published since 1950, deserve studies of socialization. the title "Most Revolutionary." (See Psychological Review, 75, 81-95. Developments, 44(1), Winter 2001, for 10. Gilligan, C. (1982). In a different the survey questions.) Here for the first voice: Psychological theory and Helping Children Deal time, I am making this list available. women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. with Sept. 11 20 Most Revolutionary Studies 9. Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. (1961). Transmission of In the aftermath of the events of (published since 1950) aggression through imitation of September llth, professionals from aggressive models. Journal of many disciplines, universities, and other 20. Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. Abnormal and Social Psychology, educational groups rushed to provide (1978). Does the chimpanzee 63, 375-382. information to parents and teachers. have a theory of mind? The 8.Harlow, H., & Harlow, M. (1965). Many organizations posted information Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The affectional systems. In A. (or links to information) about how to /, 515-526. Schrier, H. Harlow, & F. Stollnitz help children deal with the fears that 19. Fantz, R. L. (1961). The origin of (Eds.), Behavior of non-human rise from the traumas associated with form perception. Scientific primates. New York: Academic terrorism and other forms of violence. In American, 204, 66-72. Press. addition to SRCD those posting helpful 18. Brown, R. (1973).A first 7.Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward information were: the American Acad- language: The early stages. an experimental ecology of human emy of Pediatrics, American Psycho- Cambridge, MA: Harvard development. American logical Association, PBS Kids, and University Press. Psychologist, 32, 513-531. Tolerance.Org.

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(cont. from p. 2) (cont. from p. 3) meet the professional development Enlighten the Media However, when the attention fades, needs of all participants. often so too does the issue and the Work with the media can be challenging action. For example, most Americans The Millennium Fellows Program is an and even intimidating, and negative probably think that Congress enacted important effort providing access and experiences do occur. Still, it is something new gun safety and other protective ongoing support to the educational that we must do. Important issues of child legislation following the Columbine pipeline that will produce the next development are being discussed, and school shootings. The reality is that the generation of practitioners, those discussions will continue with or bills, passed in the House and Senate, policymakers, and researchers in the without the benefit of our knowledge. never made it through conference, and field of child development. We invite all More of us need to weigh in and to so no federal action has ever been members of the Society to assist with provide balanced but definitive informa- taken. The pressure on Congress faded, this effort by publicizing this tion. We should work with the media in and so Members failed to continue to opportunity to potential undergraduate order to inform parents, teachers, work on resolving the differences to students, participating as Junior or caregivers, etc. in our society who have address the issue. By keeping the public Senior Mentors and welcoming the questions about what really is best for discussion going in the media and by Fellows to our next meeting in Tampa, children. We also should work with the providing credible research-based Florida in 2003. media because by delivering facts to the information to policy-makers we can debate, we bring pressure to bear on the help them keep their focus on improving Please contact Cynthia Garcia Coll policymakers to enact real policies instead the lives of children, youth, and families. ([email protected]) if of deferring decisions. you have questions or wish to Note: The OPC can provide advocacy train- participate in the 2003 Millennium Too often news reports tell us that ing to help you feel more comfortable and to Fellows Program. Congress has proposed legislation or is learn effective ways to engage policymakers. holding hearings on a topic and we think The OPC also provides media training to help researchers learn effective ways to work with that something is going to happen. the media.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

,Director, Center for the Prevention of Mentali Disorders University of Rochester Schooll of Medicine The Department of Psychiatry of the University of Rochester School of Medicine is joining with University and community collaborators to launch a major new initiative, the Center for the Prevention of Mental Disorders (CPMD). The CPMD will serve as a national resource for the study of prevention of mental disorders across the life course. Although the CPMD will focus at its inception on child and adolescent populations, its scope will grow to include other age groups as determined by the research questions of its faculty and collaborators over time. The Director of the CPMD will be an M.D. or Ph.D. with established success as an independent investigator in federally funded, peer reviewed, community-based prevention research, and as an educator in prevention science. An emphasis on the mental health and illness of children and adolescents is desirable. The Director will refine the vision of the Center, coalesce its rich resources, and lead a multidisciplinary research group in the development of programmatic research. The Director will oversee the development and dissemination of essential methodologies, particularly as they relate to the conduct of community and population-based research. The Director will also lead a program of research aimed at discerning the behavioral, psychological, and social factors that increase the probability of illness onset, relapse, and adverse outcomes; and/or promote the development and evaluation of programs designed to prevent mental disorders. Primary appointment will be to a tenure track or tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Opportunities for joint appointments are readily available. Located in the Finger Lakes region of western New York, Rochester is a city rich in culture and recreational opportunities. The University of Rochester and the Department of Psychiatry are rapidly expanding their research bases. In addition to a competitive salary, substantial resources are also available to the CPMD for program development. The University of Rochester is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Please address inquiries to: Yeates Conwell, M.D.; Chair, CPMD Search Committee; University of Rochester Medical Center; 300 Crittenden Boulevard; Rochester, N.Y. 14642; Phone: 585-275-6739; Fax: 585-273-1066; E-mail: [email protected].

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of children and recording what she about development and ways to observed. Gessell stressed documenting improve the quality of early childhood all domains of child development programs. She received an M.A. in Early emotional, social, physical, and Childhood Education and Child intellectualand their interrelationships. Development in 1945 and a Ph.D. in Between 1938 and 1944, Millie Almy Curriculum and Teaching in 1948. taught children in a day nursery and Following four years at the University supervised classrooms in WPA nursery of Cincinnati and a year at the schools and Lanham Act child care University of Illinois, Dr. Almy joined programs. the faculty at Teachers College in 1952.

These early professional experiences During her tenure at Teachers College, planted the seeds for themes that Millie Almy collaborated with the dominate Millie Almy's scholarly inquiry Horace Mann-Lincoln Institute of and advocacy: the value of careful School Experimentation to conduct Millie Almy observation of children at play, the systematic inquiry into children's 1915 - 2001 importance of teachers of young children thinking. These studies, conducted being thoroughly versed in child between 1957 and 1965, were the first to Millie Almyscholar, teacher, author, development, the need to consider the combine Piaget experimentation and a mentor, and speakerleaves us a "wholeness" of each child, and the longitudinal approach that included a priceless legacy for improving the integration of all of this information into a substantial number of children. Young quality of life for young children thoughtfully constructed environment Children's Thinking: Studies of Some through high quality early childhood and curriculum for teaching and learning. Aspects of Piaget's Theory (1967) is one education. She was tireless in her of Almy's better known books reporting pursuit and construction of knowledge In 1944, Millie Almy became a graduate on these studies. Piaget authored the about how young children grow and student and instructor at Columbia book's foreword, in which he develop and adamant about the Teachers College, seeking to learn more (cont. onp. 8) importance of understanding children's development and play in order to effectively educate young children. JOB OPENING Given her deep appreciation for the importance of good teachers for high quality care and education, Almy ureau of Sociollogkall Research focused her work on preparing professional teachers to provide Ihnifiversity of NebraskaLhnolln developmentally and educationally valuable learning experiences for The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bureau of Sociological Research is seeking a young children, mentoring hundreds of postdoctoral researcher to work on a longitudinal developmental study of early childhood professionals, and American Indian children aged 10-12 years and their families, examining risk and advocating for improved preparation protective factors associated with early onset and transition to regular use of opportunities, compensation, and drugs and alcohol. The candidate should have expertise or a strong interest in working conditions to better attract working with American Indians, willingness to travel, and good interpersonal and retain good teachers. skills. We are looking for candidates who have strong methodological skills, advanced analytic expertise, and experience in managing longitudinal data sets. Millie grew up on a farm in the small This is a one-year appointment, with possible extensions, to begin as early as community of Clymer, NY, the only May 2002. Ph.D. in sociology or related discipline required. Review of child of parents who were teachers, her applications will begin on April 15, 2002. Position will remain open until a suitable father also was a farmer. Millie took her candidate is found. Salary competitive. Please send letter of application with first child study course in 1934 while a curriculum vitae, samples of original work, and three references to Les B. student at Vassar College, completing Whitbeck, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dept. of Sociology, 739 Oldfather Hall, her A.B. in Child Study in 1936. For Lincoln, NE 68588-0324. The University of Nebraska is committed to a pluralistic two years she worked as a research campus community through affirmative action and equal opportunity. We assure assistant in Arnold Gesell's guidance reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act; contact nursery school at Yale teaching groups Les Whitbeck (402-472-5562). 6 25 MEMOIRS

contagious, infecting everyone with majority ofJohn Wright's publications whom John worked with his unalloyed give evidence of his inclinations to pleasure in the process of exploring new generous co-authorship with colleagues ideas. and students. Many reflect his long and productive collaboration with Aletha John was a prolific contributor to the Hustonboth professionally and literature that expanded our personally. understanding of children and their development and the influences on their John combined his commitment to development. The content of his research objective research on important topics contributions is nicely captured by the with his belief in citizen responsibility. publication of the two SRCD MonographsThus did he take the findings from the that bracketed his career: One that he laboratory and natural setting edited with in 1963 (Vol. 28, observations into the corridors of John Cook Wright Serial No. 85) entitled "Basic cognitive political power, into the rooms of the 1933-2001 processes in children" which helped to policy-makers, urging on them good open up the very productive era of data and the importance of making When John Cook Wright died on July intensive research on children's informed policy decisions. In this his life 9th, 2001 in an autoaccident in northern cognition; and the recent 2001 was of a wholeseeing himself as and Minnesota, not far from his beloved Monograph (Vol. 66, Serial No. 264), co- encouraging others to do good research island, Camelot, many SRCD members authored with D.R. Anderson, A.C. that was relevant to making public and beyond lost a colleague and a Huston, K. Schmitt, and D.L. Linebarger, policy and being committed to being an loyal friend. Born in Los Angeles in entitled "Early childhood television active participant in democratic process. 1933, John grew up in Washington, viewing and adolescent behavior: The Nor did he personally shirk the D.C. and in Tucson, Arizona. After recontact study", which reflected only theresponsibilities of being a citizen on the graduating from Philips Exeter latest piece of research from his long broader scene, actively advancing the Academy in 1950, he earned his BA fascination with studying the influence of cause of civil rights, personally working from Harvard in 1954, then spent two the media on children's development. to encourage dialogue on sensitive years in the army, and received his political issues between those of Ph.D. from Stanford in 1960. He joined In between these two publications is a different points of view. the faculty of the Institute for Child body of work that investigated topics as Development at the University of diverse as imitative and discrimination John Wright's generosity of spirit Minnesota that same year and then learning, selective attention, resulted in his being famously over- went to the university of Kansas in measurement, cognitive change across committed as students and colleagues 1968, moving on to the University of the life span, and increasingly, the effects alike were relentless in seeking his good Texas at Austin in 1996 where, at the of television viewing upon children's counselwhether for planning a grant behavior and development. The vast time of his death, he was Senior (cont. onp.8) Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist, and Director of the Center for Research on the Influence of Television on JOB OPENING Children (CRITC), a center he had founded with Aletha Huston in 1978 at Department of Psychology the University of Kansas. l[ndiana University Such a bare bones recitation of John Postdoctoral positions are available to work on NIH-funded research centered Wright's career can in no way capture on the intersection of perception, action, and cognition in early development. John's dynamic commitment to all Projects include theoretically grounded studies of visual habituation, attention, matters academic, his inherent motor learning and memory, and motor control. Opportunities for both empirical enthusiasm for ideas, his devotion to work and dynamic systems modeling and robotics. Persons with degrees in students, his passion for social justice, psychology, cognitive or movement science are appropriate. Please send vitae, and his irrepressible spirit. John's joy reprints and preprints, and three letters of recommendation to: Prof. Esther in coming upon an insight or a Thelen, Department of Psychology, 1101 East 10th Street, Bloomington IN synthesis was nothing short of 47405. Women and minority persons are especially encouraged. 7 26 MEMOIRS,coNT.)(

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complimented the studies as "the first understand that intellectual development As hard as John worked at doing American work to try to apply occurs through play. Children integrate research and at being a superb teacher systematically in the field of education everything they know in all domains when and mentor, John also played hardhis what results I have been able to obtain they play. Play should have a big place in sailing adventures which he urged on in developmental psychology." a curriculum for children from toddlerhood all his friends were legendary, his love through the primary grades." of a good social gathering, of folk While at Teachers College, Almy also singing, and of intrepid punning were served as President of the National On August 15, 2001 Millie Almy passed part of what made the prospect of being Association for Nursery Education in away at her home in Berkeley while with John Wright an anticipation of 1952 and 1953. Her leadership helped to listening to one of the many audio books being part of good fellowship. revitalize the Association as a leading she loved. Macular degeneration in her force to improve the quality of early later years limited her sight but not her John cared deeply about his students childhood education for all young spirit and intellectual engagement. in the classroom and as adviser and children. Fortunately we are left with her published counselor. Over the course of his career articles and books numbering close to 100,he trained many of the productive Almy left Teachers College in 1971 and and for all who were privileged to know children's television researchers. It was went to the University of California- her personally we will forever carry with said that John had a special talent for Berkeley where she was a professor in us Millie's spirit of inquiry, keen encouraging students to have the Division of Educational Psychology. observation and humor, positive attitude, confidence in themselves. Thus was It was during this period that she and nurturance of people and ideas. John Wright the first recipient of the founded and coordinated an University of Kansas' Graduate Mentor interdisciplinary program for the Marilyn M. Smith award. And in recognition of how much preparation of personnel for key Council for Professional Recognition this meant to John, his family and positions in day care and related child friends have established the John C. development services. Professor Emerita Wright Mentor Award at the University Millie Almy retired from Berkeley in of Kansas.* 1980 but not from professional activity. John Cook Wright (cont. from p. 7) She was a Fulbright Fellow at application, or the right words that made Above all, John Wright cared about his Macquarie University in New South the grant compelling, or for a clever family. He leaves his beloved wife, Wales, Australia, a visiting professor at approach to solving a knot in a research Aletha, his childrenBeth, Jennifer, Mills College, and a docent at the design, or for finding the analysis most Melanie, Kennedy, and Serena, his Oakland Museum for Children. Her appropriate to a data set, to making dull former wife, Jo, nine grandchildren and mentoring relationships with early prose sing in numerous articles and two sisters. They and all of us who had childhood professionals continued until chapters on which he was author, co- the pleasure of John Cook Wright being her death. author, or unacknowledged friend and a part of our lives miss him "so much." consultant. John was often called upon, in The cornerstone of Almy's teaching and the academic departments and universities Frances Degen Horowitz writingadvocating the value of direct with which he was associated, to chair former University of Kansas colleague experiences and manipulation to enable committees, to administer a center, to take President, the City University of New children to build scientific concepts of responsibility for a program. SRCD and York Graduate Center order and relationshipis documented other organizations made similar requests. in an 1999 interview published in the John served as local arrangements chair * Contributions to the John Wright January 2000 issue of Young Children. for the 1965 biennial meeting in Graduate Mentor Award may be sent to The interview solicited Millie's advice Minneapolis, co-chaired the program the Kansas University Endowment for the early childhood field in the new committee for the SRCD meetings when Association, PO Box 928, Lawrence century. She felt strongly that teacher they were held in Kansas City in 1989, and Kansas, 66044-0928. education should be grounded in child served a term (1989-1995) on the SRCD study and that teachers in training governing council. Exactly because John should be expected to be researchers, was never personally ambitious for "observing children as they play and himself but always eager to advance the building curriculum that's appropriate cause of the activities for which he was for each child from what we see and responsible, were his services and advice hear." Teachers need to "deeply so consistently requested.

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Notes from Executive (cont. fromp. 1)

has superior international service as well, below expectations for most making it possible for the maximum professional meetings the past several number of attendees to reach the months. We are all watching closely the destination with no or only one transfer offigures for this spring's meetings and planes. The downtown also offers the are encouraged thus far that the trend is amenities that our members like to have in in the upward direction. One plans a very close proximity. meeting based on certain generated revenue, and it can be very costly to a As we look ahead to schedule meetings, society if the figures fall short. there are many factors to consider. Costs, convenience, and "best fit" for our needs For many the meetings are the most are major ones. Generally, cities are stimulating and enjoyable part of their classified as "first tier", "second tier," and membership in the Society. We welcome so forth. We have found that second tier input from members concerning all cities such as Indianapolis, Minneapolis, aspects of the biennial meetings. Please and Tampa work especially well for a let us know your thoughts and if you meeting of our size. Many of the first tier have suggestions to help us in our as hotel reservations is located on the cities are simply much more costly than planning. Meanwhile, I hope that you "SRCD Notices" page of this we can afford, especially for the time of will be preparing your submissions and Newsletter. In 2005, we shall convene in year we meet. If we were willing to move signing up early for the meeting in downtown Atlanta, using two of the our dates to mid-winter, it would open up Tampa, scheduled for April 24-27, 2003. major hotels located just across the more locales as serious possibilities for street from each other, the Marriott and us. Of course, the new factor is the John Hagen the Hilton. Atlanta's airport is a consequences of the tragedy of 9/11. Executive Officer crossroads for the whole nation and Attendance has been averaging 20-30%

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Family Research Laboratory University of New Hampshire, Durham

FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE: The University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory (FRL) has fellowships for research on family violence available beginning immediately. Applicants interested in starting dates beyond June 2002 may apply pending funding from sponsor. These NIMH-funded positions are open to new and experienced researchers with doctorates in the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, law, nursing, public health and medicine. The fellowships are intended for work in the area of child abuse, marital violence, elder abuse, sexual abuse, child victimization, rape, homicide and other family-violence related topics with special attention to mental health impact. Scholars use the one-year fellowships (with possible one-year extension) to collaborate with FRL faculty on a current project, to work on one of the many data sets archived at the FRL or, in the case of senior candidates, to work on their own projects.

Fellows must be able to reside within commuting distance to UNH (one and a half hours from Boston). Annual stipends run from $28260 to $44412 depending upon the number of years since receipt of doctorate. Applications from scholars with backgrounds in developmental or cognitive psychology, or interests in family violence in minority families, or families of persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged. Applications (FRL application form required from website (www.unh.edu/frl) letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation and publications or work sample) will be accepted beginning immediately. For more information, contact David Finkelhor, Co-Director, Family Research Laboratory, (603) 862-1888; email: [email protected]. Complete applications should be sent to Program Administrator, Family Research Lab, Univ. of N.H., 126 Horton SSC, Durham, NH 03824. UNH is committed to excellence through the diversity of its staff and encourages women and minorities to apply.

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2003 SRCD Call f©r R. Keith Sawyer (2001). Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Announthag the New Submissions Everyday Life. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Memth-s Editor Press. Watch your mail this month for your copy of the 2003 SRCD Call for Richard A. Warshak (2002). Divorce Submissions. The Call also will be Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond available on the SRCD website From a Vindictive Ex. New York: (www.srcd.org). If you prefer to receive ReganBooks/HarperCollins. a hard copy of the Call, contact the Executive Office (Email: [email protected], Fax: 734-998-6569; Did You Know? Tel: 734-998-6578) and request a copy. The preferred method of submitting for SRCD Members can now view online the 2003 biennial meeting is online prepublished articles for Child since the review process will be Development. Go to the SRCD website electronic. (www.srcd.org), and click on: "Publications," "Child Development," "View Child Development Online" (Member ID and password required), and Newoo by SRCD finally on "Prepublished Articles." A Members listing of forthcoming accepted manuscripts is displayed. You may view a Frances Degen Horowitz PDF of the actual article by clicking on its Rex Forehand & Nicholas Long (2002). title. Parenting The Strong-Willed Child. Frances Degen Horowitz, president of (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. the City University of New York's It should be noted that these are unedited Graduate Center and a past SRCD versions of the articles and may differ President, has agreed to become the Nicholas Long & Rex Forehand (2002). slightly from the published versions. The Making Divorce Easier on Your Child: new memoirs editor for Developments. articles are also copyrighted and may be Dr. Horowitz is known for her studies of 50 Effective Ways to Help Children cited as in press, but may not be quoted Adjust. New York: McGraw-Hill. infant development, retardation in without permission. Articles may be children, and evaluations of parent- copied for class use. child relationships.

She takes over the duties of assigning and reviewing memoirs, beginning this OBITUARIES month, for a six-year term (2002-2008). We are pleased to welcome her as a contributor to the newsletter. Richard Q. Bell died December 29, Child Research Branch. In 1975 he joined 2001 at Westminster Canterbury of the the faculty of the University of Virginia as Blue Ridge. He was born on February Professor of Psychology, Behavioral 10, 1919 in Logan Utah. Prof. Bell Medicine and Psychiatry, retiring in 1989. completed his undergraduate studies Dr. Bell's research was instrumental in at Utah State University and the changing the ways that mother-child University of Missouri. After serving relationships are viewed. Rather than as a major in the U.S. Army during asking how mothers affected their WWII, he studied at Stanford, children, he asked how children affected completing his Ph.D. in 1951 in clinical their mothers, providing a major and developmental psychology. Muchcontribution to understanding family of his professional career was spent atrelationships. He had been a member of NIMH where he served as Chief of the SRCD since 1946. Infancy Program and later Chief of the

"10 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fulbright Scholar Program, to the Future," to be held June 26-29, 2002 Early Childhood Research Quarterly sponsored by the U.S. Department of in Washington, DC. Registration informa- invites submission of manuscripts for a State, Bureau of Educational and tion is available at http:// Special Issue on Early Learning in Math Cultural Affairs, is offering lecturing / www.headstartresearchconf.net. For and Science. Susan Golbeck and research awards in some 140 countries questions regarding registration, please Herbert P. Ginsburg are Guest Editors. for the 2003-2004 academic year. The contact Bethany Chirico at More information and a complete Call competition opens March 1, 2002. For [email protected] or (703) 821-3090, ext. for Papers are available from the journal information, contact the Council for 261. For information regarding conference editor (Karen Diamond kdiamond@ International Exchange of Scholars programming, please contact Dr. Faith purdue.edu) or Guest Editors (Susan (CIES) at 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite Lamb-Parker at flplacolumbia.edu or Golbeck [email protected]; 5L, Washington, DC 20008-3009. Tel: (212) 305-4154. Herbert P. Ginsburg hpg4@columbia. 202-686-7877; Email: apprequestA edu). The deadline for submission of cies.iie.org. Information and an online manuscripts is December 31, 2002. application are available on the Web at The NOME Conference on the Role of www.cies.org. Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS will meet in Miami, Florida, July Child and Youth Health 2003, 3rd World 24-26, 2002. For more information, visit Congress and Exposition: May 11-14, The Jean Piaget Society invites you to their website (www.nimh.nih.gov/events/ Vancouver Convention and Exhibition attend the 32nd Annual Meeting to hivaids2002.cfm). Centre, Vancouver, Canada. For more take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylva- information, visit the website nia, June 6-8, 2002. For further informa- (www.venuewest.com/childhealth2003) tion, please visit the Jean Piaget The International Society for the Study of or contact Child & Youth Health 2003 Society website http://www.piaget.org Behavioural Development (ISSBD) will be (Tel: (604) 681-5226, Fax: (604) 681-2503, or contact: Eric Amsel, Department of meeting in Ottawa, Canada, August 2-6, Email: congressvenuewest.com). Psychology, Weber State University, 2002. Visit their website (www.issbd. 1202 University Circle, Ogden, UT uottawa.ca) for more information. 84408-1202, e-mail: [email protected].

32nd Carnegie Symposium on JOB OPENING "Building Object Categories in Developmental Time," June 7-9, 2002 at Carnegie Mellon University, , Department of Psychollogy PA. Invited leading scholars will speak on the mechanisms that underlie category formation and how they Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. change with development. For informa- We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a research group on an NIMH funded tion on registration and attendance, Program Project study of risk factors for depression in children and adults. There visit our web-site, www. psy.cmu.edu/ are three individual projects in the overall effort: (Study 1) molecular genetics, categorydevelopment/, or contact Dr. (Study 2) psychophysiological correlates, and (Study 3) mother-child interaction. Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, gershkof+A The postdoctoral fellow would participate directly in Study 2, research targeted at andrew.cmu.edu or Dr. David Rakison, understanding the psychophysiological correlates of maladaptive behavior in [email protected]. adults who were diagnosed with depression as children and their offspring. Primary measures of interest include multi-site EEG and ERP responses to cogni- tive and affective challenge. Opportunities would also be available to collaborate The Administration on Children, Youth with investigators from the other two active studies. The postdoctoral fellow's and Families, U.S. Department of responsibilities include participating in the ongoing research, analysis and Health and Human Services, in publishing from data already collected, and taking an active role in ongoing collaboration with Columbia development of the project. Qualifications include a PhD in Clinical or Develop- University's Mailman School of Public mental Psychology and a strong background in data analysis. Send CV, statement Health and the Society for Research in of career interests, representative publications, and three letters of recommenda- Child Development, announces Head tion to Dr. Jeffrey Cohn, 614 OEH, 4015 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Email Start's Sixth National Research Confer- to jeffcohn+@pittedu. ence, "The First Eight Years: Pathways 113 0 BEST COPY AVAILABLE ** Vtof SIRCD90 weboMe (www.ga-cdoell-g) rreguallarlly. **

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Governing Council Attention President Ross D. Parke Student Members! Past President Michael Rutter President-Elect Esther Thelen Student members of SRCD comprise an important group, representing the Secretary W. Andrew Collins future of the study of child development. For this reason there is a need and Members Ronald G. Barr desire to reflect the interests and concerns of the students to a greater extent Jeanne Brooks Gunn in theDevelopments.Therefore, we provide a regular "Student Speaks" Cynthia Garcia Coll colunm. Although the Editor will solicit some columns, student members may Sandra Graham Donald J. Hernandez also submit brief columns for consideration. This is not intended as a venue Aletha Huston for research, but to provide an outlet for members' issues and ideas. Submis- J. Steven Reznick sions should be of general interest, limited to500words or less, and submitted Mary K. Rothbart via email or attachment to pamreidmich.edu. Please be aware that space is Arnold Sameroff limited and that all submissions cannot be printed. Student Rep Anthony Salandy Ex Officio John W. Hagen

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Notes from the Executive Officer Focus on... ehavior Connection Supervising Students' Use of the Web

The second Learning and the Brain Conference that I have Fred Rothbaum and Nancy Martland attended was held May 9-11 on the campus of MIT. The title Tufts University of the conference was "Using Brain Research to Reach All Learners." The purpose of this series of conferences was to This article is intended as a primer for faculty who want to bring research findings, especially the new information and address the Web in their courses but are not sure how to do technologies that include knowledge of brain and central so. Professors need to understand that the same criteria they nervous system functioning, to educators and clinicians use in evaluating conventional materials can and should be working with children, adolescents, and families. Both used in evaluating Web-based materials. general and special education were included. The diversity of (cont. onp. 8) the disciplines and points of view presented were indeed refreshing.

In a keynote address, G. Reid Lyon addressed the topic "Reading Development, Difficulties and Intervention." Most of you know Reid as the Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has played a key role in the formation and dissemination of Laura Bush's agenda con- cerning literacy and early learning. In this talk, his emphasis was on the complexity of the reading process, the roles played by parents, teachers, and the community, and the importance of very early intervention if a child's progress is lagging. His IINSIDE approach is comprehensive and Program Committee Report 2 draws from psycho- Washington Office Report 3 Fred Rothbaum and Nancy Martland logical, educational, Job Openings 4, 8 and biobehavioral Call for Nominations 5 approaches to Mark Your Calendar! Memoirs 6 understand and July Biennial Meeting Event 9 facilitate reading. 23 Submissions postmark deadline for 2003 Biennial Member News 10 Meeting We're Moving 10 Other sessions 26 SRCD Executive Offices move to new location Milestones 10 included a range of 30 Online submissions deadline: 1 1:59 PM EDT Announcements 10 topics and speakers Sept Classified Ads 11 with different areas .6 Nominations deadline for candidates to Governing Developments' submission of expertise. Patricia Council guidelines 12 Carpenter of Oct SRCD Contact Information 12 (cont. onp. 6) Membership renewal notices are mailed

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The 2003 Mlleilittgiall Meetfing Celebrates 70 Years ©f SRCD

Erika Hoff and Brett laursen Florida Atlantic University 2003 Program Co-chairs -, Plans are well underway for the 2003 biennial meetings in Tampa, Florida. The SRCD staff in Ann Arbor have been working on this 70th anniversary event ./ for some time now, and their labors are bound to be appreciated by those attending the meeting. The biennial meeting will be 24 to 27 April 2003. Erika Hoff Brett Laursen Deadlines are 30 July 2002 for online submissions and 23 July 2002 for Ladd, Chairs), developmental research grateful to the members of the Program postmarked submissions. with Latinos in the United States (Cynthia Committee for their efforts: Roger Garcia Coll, Chair), peer aggression and Bakeman, Cathryn L. Booth, W. Andrew As in the past, the meeting will consist victimization in schools (Sandra Graham, Collins, Sandra Graham, Brenda Jones of a submitted program and a two-part Chair), language and literacy in bilingual Harden, Grazyna Kochanska, Jin Li, invited program. One part of the invited children (Rebecca E. Eilers and D. Kathleen McCartney, Charles A. program is determined by the SRCD Kimbrough 011er, Chairs), new directions Nelson, Paige Fisher (student represen- Governing Council and consists of in personality development theory and tative), Lauren Fasig (ex-officio), John submissions invited from the SRCD research (William G. Graziano, Chair), Hagen (ex-officio), and Ross Parke (ex- standing committees. Because this is an developmental psychopathology in the officio). anniversary year, several special events postgenomics era (Robert Plomin, Chair), sponsored by the History Committee are evidence-based reading reform (Robert E. Between 5,000 and 6,000 attendees are being planned. Watch for news about Slavin and Steven Yussen, Chairs), and expected at the Tampa meetings. this portion of the invited program in nutritional, environmental, and central Obviously, an event of this magnitude the next issue of Developments. nervous system contributions to func- requires the concerted effort of many tional isolation processes (Theodore D. individuals. We especially want to The second part of the invited program Wachs and Betsy Lozoff, Chairs). recognize Executive Officer John Hagen is determined by the SRCD Program and the talented SRCD staff in Ann Committee and consists of invited The SRCD Program Committee met in Arbor: Suzanne Kelley, Angela Mackay, addresses, master lectures, and sympo- October 2001 to settle its portion of the Jennifer Retter, Pat Settimi, and Thelma sia. For the Tampa meetings, seven invited program and to discuss the Tucker. invited addresses and six master submitted program. Several changes were lectures have been scheduled. Invited made to the submitted program. Perhaps Late-April in Tampa is late spring, which addresses will be delivered by Renee most noteworthy, the review panels were means plenty of sunshine and warm Baillargeon, Felton Earls, Lila Gleitman, reorganized and the review process for weather. The greater Tampa area Jacques Mehler, Lea Pulkkinen, Eliza- posters was revised. There are 22 panels includes many attractive destinations, beth Spelke, and Marcelo Sudrez- to review submitted posters and sympo- including beaches, museums, and Orozco. Master lectures will be deliv- sia, organized by the domain of develop- amusement parks that are not easily ered by Daniel P. Keating, Ann Masten, ment and the population under study. accessible without a car. Fortunately, Charles A. Nelson, Mark S. Seidenberg, Submitters should note that panel rental cars are plentiful and inexpensive. Laurence Steinberg, and Paul van Geert. numbers may differ from previous years. Downtown Tampa and Ybor City Eight invited symposia have been Poster submissions will be rated as destinations, however, are within easy scheduled on the topics of children and accept/reject, and panel chairs will make reach of taxi and streetcar. Please plan political violence (Ed Cairns and Gary the final decision on acceptance when the your visit accordingly. We look forward two assigned reviewers disagree. We are to a stimulating and enjoyable meeting. 2 33 REPORT FROM SRCD wASHINGTON OFFICE

WeRfare Reform before their child is grown. Additionally, Parents also realize that they are in a although Head Start is undeniably difficult position. High quality care is useful for low-income families, it is Rebecca Goodman, Coordinator expensive and without government important for members of Congress to SRCD Office for Policy and Communi- subsidies many parents will not be able to understand the distinction between cations afford the best care for their children. If child development programs and there is going to be a mandated increase childcare. The 1996 welfare reform law, Personal in the number of hours a parent must Responsibility and Work Opportunity spend outside the home, it is equally Unfortunately not all members of Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), createdimportant for the government to provide Congress hear from their constituents important welfare programs that must resources for the children who will be left regarding the pressing issue of welfare be reauthorized before September 30, behind. reform. Even more unfortunate is that 2002. While welfare is always a contro- members of Congress may not hear all versial topic, much of the current the necessary details before a vote. reauthorization controversy is focused Scientific research can impact the on childcare, a strong area of interest reauthorization of the welfare reform bill for SRCD members. Congress has been by providing members with the most analyzing the mandatory work require- recent and applicable findings on child ment under the Temporary Assistance health and development. for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. To receive TANF assistance, parents As the House has already passed their are obligated to fulfill a weekly work version of a bill reauthorizing welfare requirement. reform, in the coming months all eyes will be on the Senate. The Senate While the growth of employment due to continues to hold hearings with TANF is generally positive, increasing testimony from government officials, the number of welfare recipients welfare recipients, and other interested receiving paychecks and job training, parties. Information on these hearings is some members of Congress now wish described and updated monthly in the to raise the work requirement. The Washington Update, available under the recently passed House bill H.R. 4737, Office for Policy and Communications Personal Responsibility, Work and Rebecca Goodman link on the SRCD website. Family Promotion Act, renews the 1996 law and increases the work requirement As the only federal source of funds from 30 to 40 hours per week. This dedicated to childcare, the Child Care and MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA increase is divided into 24 hours at Development Block Grant (CCDBG) does work and 16 hours involved in training not provide sufficient support for and/or other activities. Basing this on childcare assistance. When combined The SRCD Office for Policy and the success of working parents leaving with TANF and the Social Services Block Communications is interested in welfare since 1996, Congress must Grant (SSBG), only 2.4 million of 15.7 highlighting our members who are realize that they have not always left formillion eligible children in FY 2000 featured in the news media for their jobs that pay at or above the poverty received childcare funding. When divided work on various research-related topics. line. out, 1.87 million children received The following are submissions by our childcare funding through CCDBG. TANF members and are presented according The proposed increased work require- and SSBG combined provided subsidies toto affiliation, name and date of the ment reduces the time parents have to 500,000 children. Thus only one in seven, media coverage, and title or brief spend with their children but does not or 15%, of eligible children received description of the topic: provide adequate provisions for childcare assistance in FY 2000. Larry Aber, Washington Univer- childcare. Realizing this lack of suffi- sity: New York Times, July 8, 2001: cient childcare funding, child develop- Parents are being placed on long waiting "How Many Poor Children is Too ment specialists and child advocacy lists while some are not even informed Many?" groups became concerned that parents that they are eligible for child care Diana Baumrind, Elizabeth Owens, would not be able to afford childcare, assistance, perhaps because there is no University of California-Berkeley: especially in high quality settings. hope that they will see that assistance (cont. onp. 4) 3 34 MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA

The Washington Post, August 24, 2001: children's aggression and harsh Catherine Lord, University of 2001: "New Study Gives Green discipline at home. Michigan: CNN.com, June 15, 2001: Light to Occasional Spanking." Michael Lewis, UMDNJ-Robert Wood "Panel wants children screened Tom Dalton, Cal Poly State Univer- Johnson Medical School: Gifted early for autism." sity: The Tribune News.com, March Education Press Quarterly, May David Moore, Pitzer College: KBPS 25, 2001: "Researcher still learning 2001: "Effective identification of National Public Radio, January 8, in real world." children for gifted education program- 2002: "The Dependent Gene." Pamela Davis-Kean, University of ming." Nancy Segal, California State Michigan: Woman's World, October Michael Lewis, UMDNJ Robert University at Fullerton: Discovery 15, 2001: types of things parents Wood Johnson Medical School: The Channel, November 25, 2001: can do to support their children's Indianapolis Star, December 16, program on cojoined twins. education and achievement. 2001: "Lying all around: Not telling Arthur Reynolds, University of Douglas A. Gentile, National the truth is easy to hide for people Wisconsin: The Washington Post, Institute on Media and the Family: who work at it, and many do." July 25, 2001: "Dividends of Early Cnn.com, June 4, 2001: "Study: Michael Lewis, UMDNJ Robert Learning." Media ratings systems need Wood Johnson Medical School: Aqui overhaul"; July 25, 2001: "Senate Y Ahora (Here and Now), January 8, We strongly encourage all members to panel rates entertainment ratings." 2002: "Una Verdadera Mentira" (The report recent noteworthy mentions in local, George Holden, University of Texas Truth About Lying). state, or national magazines, newspapers, news broadcasts, radio spots, interviews, or Michael Lewis, UMDNJ Robert Wood at Austin: New York Times, August articles published based on their research. 25, 2001: "Findings give some Johnson Medical School: Good Information may be e-mailed (srcd@ support to advocates of spanking." Housekeeping, April, 2002: "Reinvent- apa.org) or faxed ((202) 336-5953) to the ing the Family Dinner." Tasha Howe, Transylvania Univer- Office for Policy and Communications. sity: CNN's WebMD.com, February

JOB OPENING

Chair, Department ©f Human Devellopment University of Marylland

The Department of Human Development/Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland invites nominations and applications for the position of Chair. Recognized as a national leader in research on human development and learning, we seek an individual who supports the mission of the department. Faculty engage in research focusing on human development and learning, and study cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development; human psychobiological functioning; motivation; mathematical and literacy skills; and early childhood education, policy, and intervention. Doctoral specializations are offered in developmental science, educational psychology, and human development. Masters programs are offered in human development and early childhood. An undergraduate major is available in early childhood teacher education. The department administers the Center for Young Children that has a research, practice, and training mission. Qualifications for the position include: Doctorate in human development, educational psychology, developmental psychol- ogy, or related field; record of publications and external funding commensurate with appointment at rank of professor; administrative experience as department chair, associate dean, or other comparable experience. The ideal candidate will demonstrate interest in and enthusiasm for promoting the academic and professional development of students. A full position announcement can be found at: www.education.umd.edu/news/vacancies/edhdchair.html. Candidates should submit a letter of application addressing the qualifications noted above, a current curriculum vita, representative publications, and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three persons from whom letters of reference may be requested. Nominations and applications should be forwarded to: Philip J. Burke Ph.D.- Human Development Chair Search Committee Room 1308 Benjamin Building University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742Voice: 301- 405-6515 FAX: 301-314-9158 Email: [email protected]. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. For best consideration, please submit by September 9, 2002. Position appointment will be effective July 1, 2003. 3 5 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The Society is seeking nominations for President-Elect, Secretary, and two Members-at-Large of Governing Council. Those elected will take office immediately after the 2003 Biennial Meeting. We invite you to nominate full members of SRCD to serve in these roles. The President-Elect serves on Governing Council for sixyears, two years as President-Elect, two years as President, and two years as Past President. The Secretary and Members-at-Large of Governing Council each serve six-year terms.

Candidates for Governftng Council

In keeping with the Society's commitment to interdisci-President-Elect plinary leadership, the President must be from a 1. discipline other than psychology every third election. For this election, however, there are no restrictions on 2. discipline and all full members of the Society are 3. eligible.

A new Secretary will be elected for a six-year term. Secretary The nomination is unrestricted and all full members of 1. SRCD are eligible. This is a key position for the Society, and you are encouraged to nominate individuals 2. who would be interested in making a substantial 3. contribution to SRCD for this time period.

The nominations for Members-at-Large of Governing Members-at-Large Council are unrestricted. All full members of the 1. Society are eligible, and you are encouraged to con- sider those from the many disciplines represented and 2. to give thought to minority participation in the gover- 3. nance of the Society. Two Members-at-Large will be elected. 4. 5. 6.

Candidates to serve on Governing Council may be sent to Michael Rutter, Chair, SRCD Nominations Committee

Email: [email protected] Mail: Box P080, Soc Gen Dev Psychiatry Research Fax: 44-207-848-0881 Ctr, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK) Deadline for receipt of candidates is: September 6, 2002.

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the effects of trauma on children. His work clinicians from around the world. His included the development of new pharma- work came to involve an interdiscipli- cological treatments as well as innovative nary network of collaborators from Italy, studies of brain development. France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Turkey, In 1970 Donald became a special assistant Israel, Egypt, Brazil, Chile, China, to Edward Zigler, who at the time was Taiwan, Japan and Korea, among other Chief of the Children's Bureau and countries. Director of the Office of Child Develop- ment (now the Administration for Chil- Donald faced his final illness with dren, Youth, and Families). He worked on remarkable courage and equanimity. He a number of important issues including is survived by his wife, four children, Head Start's first performance standards, and five grandchildren as well as by his the Nation's first day care standards, the mother. We mourn his passing and mental health component of Head Start, grieve his absence. He will be dearly and various issues surrounding the missed. possible overuse of psychotropic medica- tions in children. Fred R Volkmar MD Edward F. Zigler PhD Donald J. Cohen, M.D. Throughout his career Donald was an 1940-2001 active advocate for children and their families. In the first years of his career he Donald Cohen professor of child repeatedly emphasized the neurobiologi- psychiatry, pediatrics, and psychology cal basis of autism as an antidote to the Notes from (cont. from p. 1) and Director of the Child Study Center views of those who had earlier attempted at Yale University, died of cancer on to blame parents for the condition. He was Carnegie-Mellon talked about "brain October 2nd, 2001; he was 61 years old. active as a member of the professional styles" and drew from research on A native of Chicago Dr. Cohen advisory boards for both the Tourette's perception, cognition, and individual attended Brandeis University before Syndrome Association and the Autism differences. Several presenters drew receiving a Fullbright Scholarship for Society of American. Throughout his from brain research to bring under- study at Cambridge University. He professional life he was committed to the standing to learning disabilities and subsequently attended medical school notion that research and clinical care were attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. at Yale before completing training in necessarily interrelated. A gifted clinician On a very different theme, Richard adult and child psychiatry at Harvard. he constantly made himself available to Lerner talked about brain, biology, and He then returned to a faculty position families. behavior, and how we can integrate at Yale. Throughout his professional information across these domains to life Donald was actively involved in In recent years Donald was very active in understand better culture and civic the field of child development as a developing a program for bringing involvement in youth. John J. Ratey, researcher, clinician, teacher, and knowledge of child development prin- who wrote A User's Guide to the Brain, advocate for children. ciples to members of the police. This discussed the basic structure and interest grew out of his long-standing chemistry of the brain and how systems As an undergraduate Donald worked interest in the effects of violence on shape perceptions and actions. I served with Gardner Lindsey and his first children and the ways children were as chair of a session on learning publication, "Justin a Child's Social affected by the television reports of the disabilities and differences and pre- World" appeared in Child Develop- Gulf War. He was active in the attempts to sented my work utilizing a learning ment. The author of over 400 papers bring Israeli and Palestinian mental health strategies approach for teens and and chapters, he also edited and workers together to focus on the needs of university students with learning authored a number of books on autism children in the Middle East; he was problems. The audience response was including the 1" and 2nd editions of the instrumental in organizing the first child enthusiastic and questions more than Handbook of Autism. His research psychiatry journal in Arabic. As president filled the allotted time. There were also interests included autism and of an international child psychiatry many exhibitors, who were selling Tourette's Syndrome, the development organization he actively fostered collabo- books, disks, inventories, and providing of twins, the neurochemical aspects of rations between investigators and brain development and, more recently, (cont. on p. 8) MEMOIRS

proactive play while those who viewed rejection rate and a correspondingly the latter chose toys conducive to violent high level of quality. play. This study set the stage for the subsequent study of children and Alberta played a major role in the television viewing. SRCD's renewed commitment to social and public policy in the mid 70s. She

' Alberta married Sidney Siegel, author of served first as chair of the study group Nonparametric Statistics, in Santa on child development and social policy Barbara in 1954. They moved to (1975-77), and then chair of the Commit- Pennsylvania State University, where tee on Child Development and Social both held faculty positions. Both served Policy (1979-83). During this time she as Fellows at the Center for the Advanced played a key role in obtaining funding Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1961- for the Congressional Fellows program, 62. Alberta was nominated for an and then served as the first chair of the additional year following Sidney's selection committee for the fellows. a untimely death in November 1961. She SRCD bestowed upon Alberta the Alberta Engvall Siegel remained at Stanford, until her retirement "Award for Distinguished Contributions 1931 - 2002 in 1999. In 1963 she became a faculty to the Society" at the Albuquerque member in the Department of Psychiatry biennial meeting in 1999. and Behavioral Sciences and in 1969 was Alberta Engvall Siegel died on the first woman to obtain a tenured Alberta Siegel combined two worlds, as November 3, 2001, of cancer at her professorship in the Stanford Medical a scholar and as a citizen who was home in Menlo Park, California. She left School. She held many positions at dedicated to making the world a more a legacy of contributions to Stanford Stanford, including the associate habitable place. She served as Chair of University, where she earned all her deanship of undergraduate studies, and the Supervising Committee of Stanford's degrees and where she was a faculty chair of the appointment and promotions Bing Nursery School, which became a member for almost forty years; to the committee. A fellow of the American model for nursery school programs Society for Research in Child Psychological Association, Alberta also throughout the country. Alberta was an Development (SRCD), where she played served on three study sections active leader in establishing the Palo an important role in establishing a concerning maternal and child health and Alto Senior Citizens program, a long- relationship between child development developmental problems for the National term program that provides stimulation research and social policy; and to her Institutes of Health and on several other for housebound, socially isolated family and many friends. national commissions. adults. She was also a member of the children's Health Council in Palo Alto, a Alberta and her three sisters were all In 1969 Alberta was appointed to member- program that brought financial and born in Pasadena. While attending high ship on the U.S. Surgeon General's other support to children with serious school there she quickly became a Scientific Advisory Committee on health problems and that has now been champion debater and had her own children's social behavior and television. in operation for several decades. radio show. She entered Stanford at age The resulting report, issued in 1972, had a 16 years with the intention of pursuing profound influence on the debate con- She is survived by her son Jay, her a bachelor's degree in anthropology. cerning the impact of viewing aggression daughter-in-law Linda, her granddaugh- Faculty there encouraged her to study on children's behavior and subsequent ter Sydney, and three sisters, Ruth Anne child psychology, and she earned her development. Her research and writing Barton, Portia Oldmen, and Elizabeth bachelors degree in 1951, followed by a continued in this area, and she became a Newcomb, who live in California. She will master's in 1954 and her doctorate in leading spokesperson for the reform of be remembered for her devotion to family 1955 at age 23. Lois Meek Stolz was one commercial programming for children. and friends, her commitment to children of her major mentors and a life-long and to others, and her enduring sense of friend. Alberta's dissertation was Alberta served as editor of the journal, humor. conducted at Stanford's Village Nursery Child Development, from 1964-1968, a School, where she used filmstrips of period of unparalleled growth in the field. John W. Hagen comic characters to demonstrate either During her term of service the journal Harold W. Stevenson nonagressive behavior or aggressive became known for publishing research University of Michigan behavior. Those children who viewed with a strong scientific basis, and the the former subsequently engaged in influx of manuscripts led to a high 38 NOTES FROMTHE EXEUTIVE OFFICER(coNT.)

(cont. fromp. I)

be interested in the ideas of the SRCD to provide guidance to students is to members as to whether we should explore direct students to trustworthy sites. sponsoring or co-sponsoring workshops, Toward this end, we have created a conferences, or special sessions at other portal called the Child & Family meetings where our members could share WebGuide (www.cfw.tufts.edu). The their expertise, as well as any materials WebGuide lists, describes, and evalu- that have resulted from their work. Our ates about 200 trustworthy Web sites biennial meetings are aimed at a very that contain research-based information different audience and have a specific on children and families using the focus, and this is, of course, how our evaluation criteria described by meetings should be. But there may be Martland (2000). ways to try other formats on much smaller scales. In a regional meeting we could Here we pose and answer a number of include professionals interested in questions from faculty whom we have particular applied areas of child develop- interviewed about their students' use of ment. Your thoughts on this issue are the Web. welcome! How would you suggest that I begin to demonstrations; the exhibit area was John Hagen use the Web? always crowded. Executive Officer Prescribe, don't proscribe. In your syllabus, clearly state that it is OK to I believe that this sort of conference use the Web but require that students plays a major role in bringing together establish the credibility of their sources researchers, policy persons, and Focus on (cont. from p. 1) using the criteria of quality web sites practitioners, and we have an obliga- One way to make it easier for students to listed above, and that they cite their tion to be involved when asked. I would find Web-based materials and for faculty (cont. on p. 9)

JOB OPENING

Directhr, Office for PoItcy and Communications SRO)

The Society for Research in Child Development is seekinga qualified professional to manage and direct the activities of its Washington-based Office for Policy and Communications. The Directorrepresents the Society through participation in coalitions, science and social policy education, and science advocacy activities. This positionrequires the development and maintenance of relationships with congressional offices, federalagency officials, and representatives from other scientific societies. As the SRCD representative, the Director conducts communicationsactivities and acts as the Society's main point of contact with the media. The Director is also responsible for managing the SRCDFellowship program and for developing funding opportunities.

Requirements include: a doctorate in psychology, human development,or a closely allied field; in-depth knowledge of the legislative/regulatory affairs process; and an interest in social and science policy. A minimumof two to three, and prefer- ably five, years of postdoctoral work experience; including experience in the policyarena. The candidate must have experience working in a variety of professional settings, demonstrated skills workingcollaboratively with others, excellent communication and presentation skills, grant writing and fundraising experience, andmanagement and budgeting skills. Please fax, mail, or e-mail vita and cover letter referencing the position to: OPC DirectorSearch, Society for Research in Child Development, Attn: Human Resources/#25-02, 750 First St., NE, Washington, DC 20002;Fax: 202-336-5501; E-mail: jobse,apa.org.

The Society for Research in Child Development isan Equal Opportunity Employer.

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(cont. fromp. 8) with Web sources, because it is so easy tothat the sites listed will contain re- F`ahlnildi a._bT.Itlo' Oda:. cut and paste from a Web document into search-based information. This does not - - - - to IL .WA sku Mit ,ad.. Mat lt.Seg ',Mt.* Ire Mt"*.t, .. St.+. Visoo. Mi.nd . another document. We believe the best guarantee quality informationeven way to decrease the chances that stu- though we use this and other tricks, dents plagiarize materials from the Web is less than 20% of the sites we examine to guide their use of Web-based materials. pass our screening process and less You should be very clear to your students than 20% of those pass our evaluation that plagiarism of Web material is no (i.e., are listed on the WebGuide). Family/ PanaiatIng CIPIdcafDaycara Typical Developmont different than plagiarism of books or Besides the WebGuide, are there other journals and will be dealt with in the same portals that I should use to find sites way. Requiring full citation of Web with child development research? sources, including URLs, is one way to The following portals are very trustwor- discourage plagiarism. If you suspect that thy and list many quality sites: sources, including URLs. You should a student has copied material from a Web www.healthfinder.com.., www.cyfernet. also list one or two portals that you source, simply typing the sentence into org; www.parentingresources.ncjrs.org, consider reputable starting points for Google may confirm your suspicions by We also encourage reliance on http:// finding research-based materials (e.g., locating its source. the WebGuidewww.cfw.tufts.edu). www.askeric.org/Eric/, www.nichd.nih. What form should my students use in gov, www.aboutourkids.org and What is the general quality of the citing Web sources? www.zerotothree.org material on the Web? Is most of the There are several conventions, but we What is the future of the WebGuide? material trustworthy? recommend APA's complete style guide The WebGuide is generously funded by To the extent that students use the Web for citing electronic resources (http:// the William T. Grant Foundation for to access databases, usually through www.apastyle.org/elecgeneral.html). university library access, the material several years. How can I teach my students to find the they find is obviously trustworthy. References most credible sites"? Martland, N. (2001). Expert criteria for Do Web sites have advantages over One of our favorite tricks is to type in the evaluation the quality of Web-based conventional materials? word "reference" along with the substan- child development information. The main reason that students use the tive term for which we are seeking Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Web is that information can be obtained information. This makes it highly likely very quicklysimply typing a term(s) Tufts University, Medford. (e.g., attachment, self esteem, ) or author's name into BIENNIAL MEETING EVENT Google (we believe this is the most useful search engine for research purposes) will instantly yield several 2003 Student "Lutilch with the Leaders" relevant sites. Do Web sites have disadvantages? The following people will be serving as "leaders" for the traditional SRCD student Yes, Web sites are not usually peer "Lunch with the Leaders" at the biennial meeting. The luncheon will be held on reviewed. Moreover, they generally Friday, April 25, 2003. provide summaries of research rather Marcelo Suarez-Orozco Paul van Geert Mark Seidenberg than original reports (although many Renee Baillargeon Charles Nelson Bill Graziano journals are currently available online, Tony Earls Ann Masten Betsy Lozoff many still are not) and, as a result, often Dan Keating Cynthia Garcia-Coll Ted Wachs lack depth. It is also not unusual to find Elizabeth Spelke Ed Cairns Sandra Graham questionable material from unverifiable Lila Gleitman Gary Ladd Vonnie McLoyd sources which students may not recognize as such, unless they have Please visit the SRCD website (www.srcd.org) for a brief biographical sketch on each been taught to do so. leader. This is the first time that SRCD has presented the list of "leaders" with whom students may share lunch. We hope that this format is more pleasing than the How can I be sure that students won't previous system. Note that there is a limit on the number of attendees, and we accept plagiarize material from the Web? reservations on a first come, first served basis. If you are a student, please register to Plagiarism may be a more serious issue attend. If you are a full member, please encourage your students to attend.

9 4 0 MEMBER NEWS

NewI;mks by SRCD We're Movfing! Announcements Members On July 26, 2002, the Executive Offices of National Study on New Parents Releases SRCD will move to: David Freides (2001). Developmental Data: Researchers at Princeton and Disorders: A Neuropsychological 3131 S. State Street, #302, Columbia Universities are releasing to Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1623 the public data from interviews with the parents of nearly 5,000 children born Our phone and fax numbers, email ad- between 1998-2000. The Fragile Families dresses, and website will all remain the and Child Wellbeing Studypart of a m mw, same. Please note that for a couple of daysfive-year, $17 million research effort irimmi-TCCCe after the move, you may be unable to reachfollows a nationally representative us. But do not despair we will be at your sample of nonmarital births to learn more service as soon as possible. about the capabilities and conditions of

MILESTONES

Passages conference in Pacific Grove, CA. He was Computer Assisted Telephone 53 years old. Dr. Jusczyk received his Interviewing Laboratory for the Judy Rosenblith, an SRCD member master's degree in 1971 and his Ph.D. in College of Human Ecology. His since 1957, and her husband, Walter, Psychology in 1975 from the University ofresearch examined the bond between celebrated their 60th wedding anniver- Pennsylvania. He taught at the Universitychildren and pets and the effect of sary and Walter celebrated his 88" of Oregon, Dalhousie University (Halifax, that bond on child development. More birthday in September 2001. Both Nova Scotia), and the State University of recently his work involved the grand accomplishments! Sadly, Walter New York at Buffalo prior to joining the assessment of drug and alcoholism Rosenblith, a former MIT provost who faculty ofJohns Hopkins in 1996. At rehabilitation programs and the state pioneered the use of computers and Johns Hopkins he directed the Infant safety belt study. Robert was a mathematical models in the study of Language Research Laboratory and member of SRCD from 1976 until his the brain, recently passed away. Our taught psychology and cognitive science. death. condolences to Judy. His pioneering studies advanced our understanding of how and when babies Derrald Vaughn died of multiple myeloma on July 28, 2001 at the age of Missing... develop language. Peter Jusczyk began his SRCD membership in 1973 and 60. He completed a B.A. in English and an M.A. in psychology at Humboldt Rodney R. Cocking, Ph.D., Cornell maintained it until his death. State University. In 1969 he received University (1971), was reported his Ph.D. in developmental psychology missing in February. A longtime Robert EL Poresky, associate professor in from The Ohio State University. During member of SRCD and assistant the Family Studies and Human Services his teaching career, Dr. Vaughn taught director of Behavioral Sciences at the Department at Kansas State University, at the University of Colorado in National Science Foundation, Dr. died November 13, 2001 following a brief Boulder, The City University of New Cocking's expertise is in language illness. Dr. Poresky received his M.A. York in Queens, and Bethany College development and public policy. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) in Child Develop- in Scotts Valley, CA. Derrald not only Murder is alleged and a suspect has ment and Family Relations from Cornell served the educational community but been arrested. He was 59 years old. University. From 1968 to 1972, he was a research associate at Cornell in early was committed to his Christian values childhood education. He then joined the and served as a pastor of music, Deaths faculty at Kansas State University in the counseling, and/or Christian education College of Home Economics, serving as in the communities where he resided. Peter W. Jusczyk died of a heart attack Acting Department Head from 1979 to He joined SRCD in 1972 and was a on August 23, 2001 while attending a 1980. In 1990 he became director of the member until his death.

10 41 ANNOUNCEMENTS

new, unwed parents and their children. Pennsylvania State University Annual These data are the results of initial Family Symposium, October 10-11, 2002. Classffiled Ads interviews conducted shortly after the Theme: Family Life Challenging for Low- birth of a child. The research team, led Income and Working Poor Families. For CALL FOR PAPERS: The Journal by Sara McLanahan of Princeton further information and registration of Adolescence is planning a Special University and Irwin Garfinkel of materials, please visit our web site at Issue on the topic of "Video Games Columbia University, note that their www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/ and Public Health Issues." The study includes a large sample of unwed 2002.htm. If you have additional ques- Journal is particularly interested in fathers. For more information, visit their tions, please contact Ann Morris at manuscripts that report new empirical website at www.crcw.princeton.edu/ [email protected]; tel (814) 863-6607; research studies. For more informa- fragilefamilies. fax (814) 863-8342. tion about editors, topics, submis- sions, and deadline, go to the American Association of Children's following website: http://www. The National Center for Children in Residential Centers will host their 46th psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/ Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia Univer- Annual Meeting at the Four Seasons Call_for_papers.html. sity suggests that you visit their Hotel in Vancouver, BC from October 16- websites for the latest NCCP news and 19, 2002. The theme will be, "Navigating publications: http://cpmcnet.columbia. Youth Development Research Toward True North: Leadership in edu/dept/nccp/index.html or http:// Position, UC Davis: The 4-H Center Changing Times." For more information, cpmcnet.columbia.eduldept/nccp/ for Youth Development at the please contact us at [email protected] or University of California, Davis main10.html 301-738-6460 or visit our website at http:// announces two applied research www.aacrc-dc.org. positions that focus on youth Call for Papers: Early Education & development (both with variable FTE Development, Special Topic Issue: Risk and Resilience: Protective from 50%-100%). Submit a letter of Vygotskian Perspectives in Early Mechanisms and School-Based interest (including desired FTE Childhood Education: Translating Ideas Prevention Programs, October 25-27, appointment), curriculum vitae, into Classroom Practice 2002. Organized by: Judge Baker official transcripts (if within five Guest Editor: Adam Winsler (George Children's Center and the Devereux years of degree), samples of scholarly Mason University). Submissions will Foundation and Sponsored by: U.S work, and contact information for follow the journal's regular blind review Department of Health and Human three references to: Jeri Sorensen, process; the Special Issue Editor and Services, Substance Abuse & Mental Academic Services Specialist, Journal Associate Editor will make all Health Services Administration Department of Human and acceptance decisions. Manuscripts (SAMHSA). Venue: The University Park Community Development; University submitted must strictly conform to the Hotel @ MIT, Cambridge, MA. Contact of California; One Shields Avenue; formatting and writing style require- Info: 610-542-3090 or www.riskand Davis, CA 95616. Review of ments of APA Publication Manual resilience.com. application materials will begin on (5th edition). Electronic submissions (in June 24, 2002, and continue until the MS Word formatspecify special position is filled. For more issue) should be sent to: The National Council on Family Rela- information, call Dr. Stephen Russell [email protected]. Hard copy tions (NCFR) will hold its Annual Confer- at (530) 752-7069. The University of submissions (4 copies) should be sent ence November 21-24, 2002 in Houston California is an affirmative action/ to: Early Education and Development, TX. Preconference workshops will be held equal opportunity employer. Special Issue: Vygotskian Perspectives on November 19-20, 2002. More informa- in Early Childhood Education, Univer- tion can be found on the NCFR website: Texas, Denton, TX, December 6, 2002. sity of Virginia, P.O. Box 400267, 147 www.ncfr.org/conference_info/index.asp. For more information call (940) 565-4477. Ruffner Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Submission Deadline: September 1, Velma E. Schmidt Fall Conference, ISSBD Meeting: The 18th Meeting of 2002. For additional information, "Looking Ahead: Developing Bright contact Adam Winsler, Department of the International Society of Behavioural Futures for Young Children," featuring Dr. Psychology, George Mason University, Development (ISSBD) will be held in David Dickinson, early childhood expert, Ghent, Belgium, July 11-15, 2004. For Fairfax, VA 22030; tel. (703) 993-1881, and Chauncey Veatch, 2002 National [email protected]. more information, please contact Leni Teacher of the Year, will be held at the Verhofstadt-Denève (issbd(uirug.ac.be). Gateway Center, University of North 114 Do You WANT TO KNOW? CHECK BELOW!

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Notes from the Executive Officer... Focus

It;ringing the Research and Head The National Child Study Start Communities Together Willa M. Doswell, Assistant Professor University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing The Sixth National Head Start Research Conference was held in Washington, D.C., June 26-29, 2002. The conferences, held In 1998, the President's Task Force on Environmental Health every other year, in the off year of the SRCD Biennial Risks and Safety Risks to Children proposed conducting a Meeting, are conducted under a contract from the national longitudinal study to examine environmental Administration for Children and Families, the U.S. influences (physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial) Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration on the health and development of children. This was with the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia followed by the authorization by Congress of the Children's University and the Society for Research in Child Health Act of 2000 that directed the National Institute of Development. I have served on the executive and program Child Health and Human Development to create a committees for all six conferences and have watched them collaboration among governmental agencies to design and grow from an attendance of around 300 to almost 1,000 spearhead the conduct of a national study. This resulted in registrants, representing the research community, the the creation of the National Child Study, (NCS), as a national and state Head Start communities, and many other collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Health and constituencies as well. Members of SRCD have served as Human Services, the Center for Disease Control, the National presenters and audience members, increasingly so over the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the U.S. years. Environmental Protection Agency. The rationale behind the study was that compared to adults, children have increased This conference was by all accounts the most successful. vulnerability to environmental health risks due to children's Our opening session featured James J.Heckman, the Henry Schultz (cont. onp. 11) Distinguished INSIDE Professor of Mark Your Calendar! Economics at the Students Speak on MFP 2 Nov. University of 3 1 Voting begins on SRCD website for 2003 Govern- Washington Office Report Chicago, and ing Council officers and members-at-large--watch Members in the Media 3 recipient of the 2000 Child Development Editor Reports ...4 Nobel Prize in for email notification Biennial Meeting Activities 5 Economic Sciences, Dec. and Ann 1 Statement of Academic Freedom...... 7 Membership renewal deadline to prevent lapse in Crittenden, award receipt of journals Fellowship Opportunity 7 winning journalist Jan. Memoirs 8 and commentator, 10 Deadline: 2003 Governing Council election Newletter Submitting Guidelines 9 as the moderator/ Feb. Job Opportunity 13 discussant. Dr. 14 Earlybird Biennial Meeting REGISTRATION Member News 14 Heckman's talk was titled "Human deadlineto receive a program book by mail New SRCD Award 14 Mar. Classified Ads/Announcements 15 (cont. onp. 10) 23 Biennial Meeting HOUSING deadline 4 4 STUDENTS SPEAK

Millennium Fellows ers in training to contribute to the devel- Issues Committee of SRCD surveyed opment of young, enthusiastic students the 1999 and 2001 Fellows, and Junior Frog minni considering a career in child development. and Senior Mentors about their experi- As this field can be somewhat confusing ences with the program. Respondents Paige Fisher and daunting, the guidance of invested, offered positive feedback about their Student Rep., Program Committee concerned mentors, both at the senior andexperiences and have described their Stephanie Jones junior "in training" levels, can make an attendance at the SRCD Meeting as a Student Rep., Policy & immense difference in students' decisions pivotal moment in their personal and Communicatins Committee to pursue a career in this field. For many professional development. Several Arnie Lapp past fellows, this experience helped them Fellows from 1999 reported they were Student Rep., Ethnic & Racial focus their goals and take clear steps to pursuing graduate work in the fields of Issues Committee enter the field of child development psychology and education. Indeed, all research. As described by one former of the former Fellows who responded to fellow, "I have applied and been accepted the survey described some form of There are many reasons to be excited to...graduate school, but I have deferred higher education as part of their future about the Biennial Meeting of the to fall 2001. I would have never thought ofcareer plans, including graduate work in Society for Research in Child Develop- myself as grad school material, but the child development and other related ment in Tampa this April. For the SRCD program with you guys, along with my fields, such as teaching and clinical community, one reason stands out in and/or . As one particular. This meeting will be the third Fellow described, "Being a fellow was that has supported, and included in its "...1999 and 2001 Fellows especially influential to me because I program of events, the Millennium was attending a community college at Fellows Program (MFP). In 1999 Frances and Junior and Senior the time. I had desire but very little Degen Horowitz and LaRue Allen Mentors...described their direction. My experience as a fellow has developed the MFP as a vehicle to put me on an exciting path..." encourage and support undergraduates attendance at the SRCD from underrepresented groups to pursue Meeting as a pivotal In its third program year, the MFP is graduate work in child development and moment in their personal continuing to grow and develop. A other related disciplines. The overall consistent theme garnered from the goal of the MFP is to increase the and professional develop- Fellows' surveys was the importance of numbers of underrepresented minority ment." the relationship between fellows and students pursuing careers in fields of mentors. Participants in both roles child development through association requested further structure and assis- with and participation in SRCD. professor who told me to apply, really tance in strengthening the relationships helped me believe in myself." It is clear between fellows and mentors at the As described in a recent issue of that their relationships with their mentors, conference itself and beyond. To this Developments (Zepeda, 2002, 45(2), 2), and with each other, created an invaluable end, the Ethnic and Racial Minority the MFP offers minority students who sense of camaraderie and support. Issues Committee has developed are selected as Fellows both Junior and Another former Fellow described her concrete guidelines that will further Senior Mentors to provide guidance and experience this way, "It was refreshing to clarify roles and increase structured support for students' pursuit of educa- see and meet other fellows with similar communication between fellows and tional and professional goals in human questions and goals...after the conferencetheir mentors. For example, a listserve development. Through participation in I felt that much more secure in my deci- has recently been created so that the MFP, students are given the oppor- sion to stick with my field and to continue members of the Committee, fellows, and tunity to attend the SRCD Biennial to pursue this avenue of research." mentors can communicate about issues Meeting as well as preconference in child development research, policy activities and field trips. The MFP A total of 43 fellows have participated in and/or practice, post announcements, facilitates valuable exposure to the field the program to date, 20 in the 1999 and provide support for one another. of human development and encourages program at the biennial meeting in interaction among attending Fellows, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and 23 in the Undoubtedly, the program will continue Mentors, and other professionals. 2001 program at the biennial meeting in to change and grow as it benefits from Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the spring of the involvement of additional fellows This program is a wonderful opportunity 2001, the Ethnic and Racial Minority for advanced researchers and research- (cont. on p. 10) 2 4 5 REPORT FROM SRCD ,wASHINGTON OFFICE

Ilmplications of Poky problems, children who are left in low quality childcare situations are not receiving the necessary motivation they Rebecca Goodman require for healthy development. Men are Office of Policy & Communication impacted differently as stricter laws are forcing them to be financially responsible One of the most interesting aspects of for their children. We begin to realize that working in Washington is the one piece of legislation, increased work opportunity to hear different requirements for parents receiving TANF perspectives on the same issue. For dollars, influences the lives of every example, how does the reauthorization family member in various ways. of welfare reform affect adolescents, young children, mothers, and fathers It becomes immensely more difficult to differently? take a step back to examine the implications of policy on these different With an increase in the work populations. It's not always enough to requirement from 30 to 40 hours, there is know how one specific group will be a simultaneous need for increased affected by a policy. We need to examine Rebecca Goodman childcare and childcare subsidies. This how each piece of legislation in turn will supporters are not always the ones we impacts the entire family. Parents are impact the lives of men and women of imagine. Instead of relying on the child away from home for longer periods of varying ages, levels of education, and development groups, sometimes we time, adolescents spend more time aloneethnicities, among other factors. Without need to join forces with the juvenile or unobserved, and younger children reviewing such research, policymakers run justice, education, or parent groups. spend more time in childcare arrange- the risk of negatively influencing popula- Understanding the impact of research ments. While mothers may react tions unintentionally. on policy is step one in this process, positively to receiving paychecks, such with relating that research to policy positive outcomes are not always One can always find dedicated individuals closely following. Our next step is to transferred to their children. While who are willing to come together in open our eyes wider and realize our adolescents suffer from behavior support (or not) of the same policy. It is important to remember that those closest allies are not always who we think they will be. Members in the Media Send recent noteworthy media mentions to Rebecca Goodman: [email protected] migrations may share a common Special, July 31, 2002: "The Brain The SRCD Office for Policy and genetic root." Game. What's sex got to do with Communications is interested in A Rachel Chazan Cohen, John Love, it?" highlighting our members who are Tammy Mann, Helen Raikes: AJohn Love, Mathematica Policy featured in the news media for their Congressional Briefing, June 29, 2002: Research, Inc.: NPR :s Morning work on various research-related topics. "Improving Outcomes for Young Edition, June 3, 2002: Findings from The following are submissions by our Children: The Early Head Start Impact the Early Head Start program members and are presented according Study." evaluation. to affiliation, name and date of the A Lynn Davey, Maine Children's ADarcia Narvaez, University of Notre media coverage, and title or brief Alliance: Bangor Daily News, June Dame: Education Matters, July/ description of the topic: 12, 2002: "Making welfare-to-work August, 2002: "The Expertise of really work." Moral Character". A Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia A Tasha Howe, Transylvania University: ASeth Pollack, University of University: New York Times, July Lexington Family Magazine, August Wisconsin at Madison: The New 17, 2002: "Study Links Working 2002: "The Parent-Teacher York Times, June 18, 2002: Mothers to Slower Learning." Communication Gap" "Physically abused children A Chuansheng Chen, University of A Tasha Howe, Transylvania University: recognize the faces of anger." California, Irvine: US News and Citizen Speak, Winter 2002: "Policy ASeth Pollack, University of World Report, August 19, 2002: Issues and Child Protective Services." Wisconsin at Madison: National "The gene that wouldn't sit still: A Michael Lewis, UMDNJ Robert Public Radio, June 18, 2002: Classroom fidgets and epic Wood Johnson Medical School: ABC "Seeing Anger."

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continue to handle idiosyncratic needs Preparation and Dissemination of New Peopile, New lideas and requests to the best of our ability. (AsPublic Summaries. We have instituted a SRCD hardware is updated and systems new requirement that as part of final Lynn S. Liben are integrated, we anticipate moving to a submission requirements, authors must Editor, Child Development web-based system for submissions and provide a 300-500 word public reviews.) We will amend the Notice to summary of their article. A description Contributors periodically as we develop of the purpose of this initiative may be An invitation to write an article on further means of streamlining the editorial found at http://www.srcd.org/ Child Development has come at an process. cdpublicsummaries.pdf. It is important opportune time because we are at an to mention that the process of obtaining exciting developmental period in the life Reviewer Pool and Reviewer Selection. these summaries is being undertaken by of the journal. First, we have recently We have developed a Reviewer the editors and staff of Child witnessed major staffing changes in the Registration Site at http://www.srcd.org/ Development, but that the process of Editorial Office. At the beginning of reviewers/. We invite all SRCD scholars using them (e.g., creating and posting July, Angela Dahm Mackay became the them on a website, distributing them to new Managing Editor of Child media, using them to inform funding Development. Anyone who had the agencies or legislative bodies) falls chance to interact with Angela in her under the umbrella of the SRCD Office previous work on SRCD membership for Policy and Communications (see will know why those of us associated http:llwww.srcd.org/policy.html). Thus, with Child Development are thrilled. suggestions about the availability and She brings a treasure trove of ideas, use of these summaries should be skills, and energy to the task. She joins directed to SRCD(&,apa.org rather than a wonderfully efficient and friendly new to the CD office. Assistant Managing EditorDetra Davisin running the CD office. From Another Perspective. As described in the Notice to Contributors Second, we are on the cusp of a number and mentioned in an earlier article in of editorial and administrative Developments, we are instituting a new initiatives aimed at streamlining the format in which papers on a focal topic, editorial process, expanding written by different authors, are participation of SRCD members in the published simultaneously. In some reviewer pool, extending the impact of cases, a paper that has been accepted our research, and encouraging Lynn Liben for publication in CD will serve as the collective conversations about our jumping off point for a small group of scholarship. I comment briefly on each, holding a Ph.D. or equivalent degree (e.g., commentaries. We anticipate using an and urge you to visit the relevant Ed.D., M.D., JD.) who are willing to "e-mail blast" that will go to all SRCD websites for additional and updated participate in the review process to visit members to publicize the acceptance of information. this website and provide the requested such papers, and to invite interested information. Our hope is that we will be readers to submit a brief (one or two Editorial Processing. Effective able to expand the pool of reviewers to paragraph) description of the thrust of a immediately, we are requesting incorporate more colleagues who have proposed commentary. We will invite a electronic submission of all expertise in disciplines, methodologies, or small number of those who have manuscripts, sent as e-mail populations that tend to be under- provided these proposals to develop attachments in Word or WordPerfect. represented in the pages of Child commentaries, subject to full (although Before submitting a manuscript, please Development; to identify newcomers to streamlined) editorial review. We urge consult the Notice to Contributors the academy; and to help spread the work you to watch for these invitations and page at http://www.srcd/org/cdntc.html. load. Please note that we will also be to consider participating in what Manuscripts are being distributed to requesting this information from promises to be an exciting forum for our reviewers electronically. We will colleagues who already review for CD collective conversation. continue to provide hard copies to because the data will enhance our ability reviewers who prefer them, and we will to identify appropriate reviewers for each manuscript. (cont. onp. 7)

4 4 BIENNIAL MEETING ACTIVITIES

Celiebrathlg the 70th Child Development: Reflections on Long time members are especially the History of SRCD" encouraged to attend, and we would Annfiversary of SRCD appreciate suggestions History Committee, Policy and ([email protected]) for events or Communications Committee, happenings that will make these The Biennial Meeting of SRCD in Tampa Committee on Ethnic and Racial meetings especially memorable for all in (April 2003) marks the 70th Anniversary Issues, and Black Caucus attendance, regardless of their age or of the founding of the Society. Those of Symposium"Development of length of membership. The field of child you who attended the 50th Anniversary Children of Color: Reflections on Past development really came into its own at Meeting in Detroit in 1983 will recall the Research and Directions for Future the time of the founding of SRCD, and many special sessions, activities, and Research" the Society has played a prominent role events. Perhaps the highlight was the in nurturing research and scholarship police-escorted ride from the History CommitteeInvited concerning children and families. The Convention Center to the Detroit AddressJay Mechling, University major purposes, as put forth by the Institute of Art for our reception, led by of California-Davis, "Does Character founders, seem to be as important today a bevy of antique cars (obtained for us Count? Theories of Male as they were then: to further research in by Alice Smuts) in which our most Adolescence From the Field" all the relevant disciplines, and to foster senior members rode! We can't promise the application of findings of research a match for this event, but a number of There will also be poster displays that to better the lives of children, families, special sessions, displays, and provide historical information in each of and society. celebrations are in the works. The the Society's major areas, including History of Child Development publications, biennial meetings, We look forward to a record turnout for Committee is planning several events, membership, and the public policy arena. the meeting in Tampa on the Bay! including a symposium that will include Photographs, graphic displays, and former presidents of the Society. copies of things such as old programs from meetings and very early volumes of History CommitteeSymposium publications will be included. "Science and Policy in the Study of The Invited Program for 2003 in TampaApril 24-27

Brett Laursen & Erika Hoff events? Research will be reviewed that Science, University of Pennsylvania). Program Committee Co-chairs bears on each question and a new accountLanguage Is No Mirror of Our Thought. of infant physical reasoning will be Research suggests that the catch-as- We are pleased the present the 2003 outlined. catch can linguistic machinery for making references diminishes the plaus- SRCD Biennial Meeting invited Felton Earls (Professor of Social Medicine ibility of recent theorizing that assigns a program. Presenters, titles, and brief and Child Psychiatry, Harvard University). summaries are presented below for the powerful causal role to language acqui- Nested Designs: Challenges and Insights sition in the child's concep-tual devel- Invited Addresses, Master Lectures, from the Project on Human Development opment. and Invited Symposia. Please visit the in Chicago Neighborhoods. Experience is website (www.srcd.org) for extended summoned to discuss challenges encoun- Jacques Mehler (Director, Cognitive biosketches for presenters. tered in mounting a representative, multi- Neuroscience Laboratory, Scuola level, longitudinal study. Some examples Internazionale Superiore di Studi Invited Addresses of insights related to social mechanisms Avanzati, Trieste, Italy). Why Should (Alumni Professor of and developmental processes will be One Study Neonates? Species Specific Psychology, University of Illinois). presented. Processes and the Modular Organiza- tion of Learning. Research will be Infants Physical World. How do infants Lila Gleitman (Professor of Psychology use their physical knowledge to repre- described that was carried out with and Linguistics, Co-Director of the neonates to understand how humans sent and reason about events? How do Institute for Research in Cognitive infants attain new knowledge about (cont. onp. 4 8 6) 5 THE INVITED PROGRAM FOR 2003 IN TAMPA (coNT.)

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connections between social behavior in development can be seen in the childhood and social functioning in changing nature of research on risk and adulthood. resilience, competence and psychopathology, prevention and Elizabeth Spelke (Professor of intervention. Psychology, Co-Director of the Laboratory of Developmental Studies, Charles A. Nelson (Distinguished Harvard University). What Makes Humans McKnight University Professor of Child Smart? Many of the perceptual and Psychology, Pediatrics, and cognitive mechanisms that guide human Neuroscience and Co-Director of the behavior are similar to those found in Center for Neurobehavioral nonhuman animals, but human thinking Development, University of Minnesota). appears to be qualitatively different. Gray Matters: A Neuroconstructivist Sources of this difference will be Perspective on Cognitive Development. discussed, focusing on the emergence of The neural basis of selected domains of new concepts and knowledge systems in cognitive development will be reviewed the domains of space and number. and tools for studying the relation between brain development and Brett Laursen Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-cognitive development will be Orozco (Victor S. Thomas Professor of described. Education and co-director of the Harvard University Immigration Project). Mark S. Seidenberg (Professor of Globalization and Child Development: Psychology and Neuroscience, The Research Agenda. Globalization University of WisconsinMadison). presents new challenges to the study of Critical Periods in Language and child development: unprecedented world- Other Domains: A Computational wide migratory flows, new information Perspective. The closing of the critical technologies, and post-nationalization of period associated with the success in production and distribution. learning a language creates a loss of plasticity that interferes with later Master Lectures learning but that also paradoxically underlies the important capacity to use Daniel P. Keating (Atkinson Professor of a first language flexibly and creatively. Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies Laurence Steinberg (Distinguished in Education, University of Toronto). University Professor and Laura H. Cognitive Integration in Adolescence: Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple The Next Sensitive Period. Advances in University). Not Guilty by Reason of Erika Hoff cognitive neuroscience and an Adolescence: A Developmental appreciation of the role of context in Perspective on Youth and the Law. This shaping developmental processes may lecture will examine a number of current tune into spoken language when they lead to a renewed appreciation of controversies facing policy-makers and are first exposed to it. adolescence as an important sensitive practitioners, illustrating the ways in period in development. which research might be used to inform Lea Pulkkinen (Professor of Psychology, debates concerning juvenile crime and Director of the Human Development and Ann Masten (Distinguished University juvenile justice. Its Risk Factors Center, University of Teaching Professor and Director of the Jyvaskyla, Finland). Trust and Institute of Child Development, UniversityPaul van Geert (Professor of Socioemotional Development. of Minnesota). Competence and Developmental Psychology, University Research will be reviewed that Psychopathology in Development. of Groningen, The Netherlands). describes how trustworthiness is Progress toward the challenge of Wobbles, Humps, and Sudden Jumps: signaled by socioemotional behavior, in integrating theory and research on Views and Methods in the Study of a process that contributes to an adaptive and maladaptive pathways in individual's social capital and explains (cont. onp. 12)

6 Statement of Academfic Freedom and the Separation of Scilence and Politics

Recently there have been actions taken against members of editorial boards of some scholarly journals in response to their nationality. Therefore, the undersigned members of SRCD offer the following statement of principle:

Both nationally and internationally, issues of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, nationality, or religious or political beliefs are of increasing concern. As a Society, SRCD is committed to the free flow of scientific information and discourse. Therefore, we want to underscore and explicitly restate, that we do not discriminate in our membership, publications, biennial meeting programs, or hiring on any political, racial, national, ethnic or religious bases. Moreover, we hope that the Society's mission to understand the development of children will shed new light on the causes of discrimination and prejudice and help those working towards solutions.

SRCD Executive Committee: Ross D. Parke, President Esther Thelen, President-Elect Michael Rutter, Past President W. Andrew Collins, Secretary John W. Hagen, Ex Officio Lynn S. Liben, Editor, Child Development Willis R. Overton, Editor, Monographs of the SRCD Lonnie Sherrod, Editor, Social Policy Report Pamela Trotman Reid, Editor, Developments Susan B. Campbell, Chair, Publications Committee

Child Development (cont. from p. 4) FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

I close this article by acknowledging the fantastic colleagues who have joined with me as editors of Child Family Research Laboratory Development Joseph Allen, Douglas University of New Hampshire, Durham Frye, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Judith Langlois, Elizabeth Menaghan, Sharon Nelson-Le Gall, Paul Quinn, Stephen The University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory (FRL) has Quintana, Bennett Shaywitz, Sally fellowships for research on family violence available beginning immediately. Shaywitz, Judith Smetana, and Allan These positions are open to new and experienced researchers with a Ph.D. in Wigfield. Together we thank the many the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, law, nursing, public health scholars who have been providing their and medicine. The fellowships sponsor work in the area of child abuse, thoughtful reviews, and the active marital violence, elder abuse, sexual abuse, child victimization, rape, homicide authors who have kept us busy and and other family-violence related topics with special attention to mental have begun to fill the pages of 2003 health impact. Scholars use the one-year fellowships (with possible one-year with their important and fascinating extension) to collaborate with FRL faculty on a current project, to work on work. We look forward to the years one of the many data sets archived at the FRL or, in the case of senior ahead, and as always, invite your candidates, to work on their own projects. Annual stipends run from $31,092 comments and suggestions. to $48,852 depending upon the number of years since receipt of doctorate. For more information visit website: www.unh.edulfrl. UNH is an AA/EEO employer.

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Institute of Mental Health. There he contribution to research methodology. served as Chief of the Section on Infant In a pair of papers published in Child Development and subsequently as Chief Development early in his career, Dick of the Child Research Branch. In 1975, made the case for the use of an Dick left NIMH to join the University of accelerated longitudinal approach in Virginia faculty as Professor of developmental research. The key Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral methodological idea he advanced was Medicine. Although he retired in 1989, that the amount of time required to Dick remained active in the psychology conduct longitudinal research might be department as an emeritus professor greatly reduced by effectively piecing supervising students and participating in together data from individuals of seminars until shortly before his death. different ages who had been followed for smaller longitudinal segments. To Among Professor Bell's many scholarly make the case for the efficacy of this accomplishments were the publication of approach, Dick showed that by using over 70 academic journal articles and book the accelerated longitudinal approach chapters. He also co-authored the book researchers could have attained very Child Effects on Adults. His SRCD similar results in a small fraction of the Richard Q. Bell Monograph on the relationship of 9-year period that it took investigators 1919-2001 newborns' behavior to preschool to collect data in the Harvard Growth behavior received a Commendation Medal. Study. Richard Q. Bell, an important In the April 2002 issue of the SRCD contributor to research in child Newsletter, Professor Bell's 1968 For most of his life, Dick was an avid development, passed away on Psychological Review paper entitled " A sportsman. Among his favorite December 19, 2001 in Charlottesville, reinterpretation of the direction of the activities were tennis, skiing, hiking, Virginia. Dick, as he was known to effect in studies of socialization" was surfing, and bridge. As many friends family, friends, and colleagues alike, recognized by Wallace Dixon as one of theand colleagues who joined Dick on the leaves a legacy of academic 20 studies that revolutionized child court will attest, he was an unusually accomplishment and enduring personal psychology. savvy tennis playerhe seemed to friendships. know instinctively how and where to hit This citation classic began as a a ball so as to confound his opponent. Dick, the youngest of four children, presentation at a conference on Skiing was a source of great exhilaration was born in Logan, Utah on February socialization in 1964 that was attended by for Dick; he continued to thunder down 10, 1919. His father was a logger; his a number of investigators who had mountainsides until well into his 70s. In mother taught in the Drama Department devoted most of their careers trying to more recent years, Dick's involvement at Utah State for many years. After accumulate evidence of parental effects in a local reading group brought him beginning his undergraduate studies at on children. In Dick's view, these efforts considerable satisfaction. Utah State, he transferred to the had been relatively unproductive, University of Missouri where he resulting in few consistent and substantial Above all, Dick was devoted to his received A.B. and M.A. degrees in correlations indicative of parental effects three children and his wife, Sherry. He psychology in 1940 and 1941, after decades of research. Years after the remained closely involved with his respectively. Although Dick had conference, Dick admitted that when he children all his life, striving in diverse initially planned to become a journalist, began crafting his paper presentation he ways to enhance their lives. During his when he was offered a scholarship he had been "in a teasing and provocative last years, despite battling Parkinson's elected to pursue his interests in mood" and that he expected his paper to disease, Dick steadfastly maintained his psychology. During World War II, Dick set off a "wave of criticism and rebuttal." positive outlook. He will be fondly served as a major in the U.S. Army. Dick To his surprise, the reactions were quite remembered and held in high esteem by then earned his Ph.D. in Psychology favorable, with attendees commenting that his many friends and colleagues for from Stanford University, completing a change in viewpoint to include the child both his fundamental research his doctoral training in both clinical and as a potent factor was long overdue. contributions and his indomitable spirit. developmental psychology in 1951. In recent years, there has been growing John D. Bonvillian Dick spent most of his professional recognition of Dick's pioneering University of Virginia career (1951 1974) at the National

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As a scientist, Peter was rooted by his to set up infant testing procedures, and interest in acoustic patterns. He had an Peter was always willing to share. ear for language and was a consummate Through such visits, the mail, telephone vocal caricaturist. During the late 1970's and email, he kept in frequent touch and early 1980's, he contributed with an almost unimaginable number of substantially to the growing literature on colleagues. After expressing disbelief infants' early ability to discriminate and sadness, one of most frequent speech sounds. He also had a passion for comments made by people learning of poetry and music, particularly jazz, and his death was, "He just sent me an was a pioneer in employing auditory email." discrimination techniques to explore infants' sensitivity to the pitch and With the death of Peter Jusczyk, the rhythm of language, as well as musical field of language development not only patterns. In the late 1980's and 1990's, lost a creative scientist who was just Peter went on to study how infants could approaching the peak of his career, but a use the prosodic components of language hub who connected people who would to acquire syntax, and to explore first not otherwise have been connected. His word learning. Nevertheless, he continued role in our lives was great and so is our Peter Jusezyk to emphasize acoustic patterns. The continuing feeling of loss. 1948-2001 field's current focus on early sensitivity to language form owes much to Peter's LouAnn Gerken, Ph.D. In August of last year, the language natural interest in the richness of the University of Arizona development community lost one of its linguistic signal to which infants are most influential, prolific and gregarious exposed. members when Peter Jusczyk died unexpectedly while attending a Perhaps because of his own strong sense conference in California. of self and place, Peter was extremely DevelopMents gregarious in his life and work. Over his Submissfon Guideilkes Although he was a man with broad career, he collaborated with faculty at his interests and a world traveler, Peter own institutions of Dalhousie University, Text: Provide your material in stayed close to his roots, both the University of Oregon, C.N.R.S. Paris, unformatted text blocks only, personally and professionally. One the State University of New York at preferably using "Times New aspect of his rootedness was an Buffalo, and Johns Hopkins University, as Roman" 10-pt font in Word or attachment to his birthplace of well as with colleagues throughout North WordPerfect. Articles should be Providence, Rhode Island, where he America, Europe and Japan. He and his about 750 words in length. A photo graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's family lived in Poland and in France for of the author or topic or both to degree in psychology from Brown extended periods and formed continuing accompany the article would be University, his father's alma mater. professional and personal relations in greatly appreciated. Peter's career as a scientist was both places. He engaged in cross- launched from Providence, when linguistic research and was involved in Photographs: 300 DPI, grayscale, groundbreaking research he conducted testing infants' sensitivity to aspects of at "tif ' files only. Note that JPEG files on infant categorical speech perception least half a dozen languages. The Jusczyk are not print quality photos. If you with his Brown mentor Peter Eimas and lab, which Ann Marie managed for much do not have a scanner to produce colleagues Einar Siqueland and James of Peter's career, was always a beehive of the photo quality we need, loan us Vigorito was published in Science in undergraduate and graduate students, your photo; we will scan it for our 1971. He married his lifelong partner and post docs of widely differing use, and then return it to you. Rhode Island native, Ann Marie, during backgrounds, visitors from around the graduate school in psychology at the world, and local colleagues who enjoyed Ads: Contact Thelma Tucker University of Pennsylvania. Peter was eating lunch amidst the action. The ([email protected]; 734-998-6578) very proud and gratified that his two Jusczyks were congenial hosts, both in for information and an order form. children, Karla and Tad, both attended the lab and in their home, where there was Brown. frequently a collaborator of Peter's visiting. Many visitors came to learn how NOTES FROM THE EXEUTIVE OFFICER(coNT.)

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Interplay of Cognitive, Biologic and those who will be served, are all Emotional Domains," in which the beneficiaries. presenters were Megan R. Gunnar, Claire B. Kopp, and Sybil Carrere, served to John W. Hagen bring together the previous themes with Executive Officer an emphasis on including our rich knowledge bases of the physiologic and neurologic factors in early development. Student Speak (cont. fromp. 2)

A special highlight was the talk by Mona and mentors. The Millennium Fellows Program is an important effort providing Locke, first lady of the state of Washington and former television news access and on-going support to the anchor, who is an extremely strong, educational pipeline that will produce the next generation of practitioners, effective, and articulate speaker, on the rights and issues of children. We have our policymakers, and researchers in the field of child development. The partici- member Kathy Barnard to thank for pation of the first mentor who was making the arrangements for this John Hagen presentation. previously a fellow will be a particularly meaningful indication of the MFP's Capital: Investing in Parents to success. We ask all members of the While it is not certain at this time if there Facilitate Positive Outcomes in Young will be more of these conferences Society to assist in this effort by Children." He has an impressive focusing on the role of research and Head publicizing this opportunity to potential command of relevant literature from Start issues, all of us who have been undergraduate students, by encourag- many disciplines and made a strong involved are convinced that these 6 ing their own students to apply to be argument for the United States to target Fellows in this unique and exciting conferences spanning 12 years have made resources to our young children and a major impact in bringing the research program, by participating as Junior or their families as the most economically and Head Start communities together in Senior Mentors themselves, and by efficient approach to facilitating human many different ways. A special thanks is welcoming the Fellows to our next capital. Ms. Crittenden, whose recent owed to Faith Lamb Parker of Columbia meeting in Tampa, Florida in 2003. book is on the importance of mothers in University, and to Esther Kresh of the modern society, supported strongly the Head Start Bureau, who with me For more information on the Millennium arguments made in Heckman's speech. Fellows Program (MFP) and an comprised the executive committee. It has been a tremendous amount of effort and application, please view the MFP Several other key sessions were time, but we have worked exceptionally informational brochure on the SRCD designed to flesh out the points of the web site at http://www.srcd.org/ well together. I think that SRCD, the Head opening plenary. I chaired a session on Start community, the children served and biennial.html. Deadline for applications "Literacy, Language, and Cognition," in is January 15, 2003. which Twila Tardif, Fred Morrison, and Todd Risley were the speakers. Their work and reflections provided complementary evidence that early Attention exposure to rich language and Student Members! interactions that children have with parents and teachers early on, all Student members of SRCD comprise an important group, representing the contribute to setting the stage for future of the study of child development. For this reason there is a need and success in school. Another session, on desire to reflect the interests and concerns of the students to a greater extent "Promoting Young Children's in Developments. Therefore, we provide a regular "Student Speaks" column. Eagerness to Learn," featured Barbara Although the Editor will solicit some columns, student members may also T. Bowman, Ross A. Thompson, and submit brief columns for consideration. This is not intended as a venue for Susan H. Landry. Here the social- research, but to provide an outlet for members' issues and ideas. Submissions emotional environment was emphasized should be of general interest, limited to 500 words or less, and submitted via as being key to successful learning. email or attachment to [email protected]. Please be aware that space is The session on "Self Regulation: The limited and that all submissions cannot be printed.

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(cont. fromp. 1) greater period of susceptibility, their FAC has the responsibility of advising the groups will be responsible for making immature mechanisms for detoxification, NICHD and the ICC on the development recommendations for the study's and because their varied behavior and design of the NCS, as well as design, sampling strategies, and across developmental, geographic, and recommending what hypotheses should implementation. The study's projected cultural contexts hold the potential for be included in the study. The 20 working timeline for 2002-2005 includes 1) devel- higher internal doses given the same groups form the heart of the study team oping infrastructure and funding environment. Additionally, other for the hypothesis generation of the study mechanisms; 2) developing and reasons for the study include the fact and consists of approximately 275 finalizing specific hypotheses and that child health has been understudied, researchers and experts from major developing study design; 3) develop- the effects of early-life exposures on universities, agencies, and other national ment and conduct of pilot studies; 4) subsequent health is gaining organizations with expertise in the areas selecting initial study sites; and 5) recognition, and advances in genetics detailed in the Table 1. initializing the full study. The study is make it possible to examine and projected for completion in 2025. Any- maximize areas of study not actualized one wishing to learn more about the before. This proposed study will be NCS should check the following longitudinal, covering the period from website: http://www.nichd.nih. gov/ preconception through the child's 2 1 s' despr/cohort or contact the NCS coor- birthday. A large sample of 100,000 dinators by email at [email protected]. children and families is proposed, with a multisite sample of women enrolled in Editor 's note: Among the more than 275 early pregnancy. All major racial groups researchers involved in this program are a (Asian American, African American, number of SRCD members. Members have Native American, Caucasian American been particularly involved in the and Hispanic American) will be Development and Behavior Working Group proportionally represented in the study and in the Social Environment Working sample. Group. The various working groups initially reported in October 2001. However, the next phase of the project was implemented The study is coordinated by an Willa Doswell this past June with a second meeting of the Interagency Coordinating Committee Advisory Committee, and they met again on (ICC) comprised of representatives from September 12 and 13, 2002, focusing on the sponsoring agencies, a Federal Additionally, there are six cross-cutting proposed hypotheses for inclusion in the Advisory Committee (FAC, that and integrative working groups in the NCS, study design issues affecting the includes the author, an SRCD member), areas of study design, ethics, recruitment proposed hypotheses, and the structure and and about 22 working groups. The ICC'sand retention, information technology, function of ongoing working groups. role is to coordinate the conduct of the repository, and community outreach and study and seek the funding for it. The communication. These specific working

Table 1 NCS Working Groups on Specific Child Health Areas

Asthma Early Origins of Adult Health Services Physical Exposures Health

Birth Defects Fertility & Early Pregnancy Immunity, Infections Social Environment & Vaccines

Exposure to Chemical Gene-Environment Injuries Medicine & Agents Interactions Pharmaceuticals

Development & Behavior Health Disparities & Nutrition, Growth & Pregnancy & Environmental Justice Pubertal Development the Infant THE INVITED PROGRAMFOR 2003 INT TAMPA (comr.)

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Developmental Transitions. Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, and Placed at Rick, Johns Hopkins Developmental transitions, relatively Barbara Zurer Pearson, with a discussion University and Chairman of the Success sudden changes in patterns of action, by Erika Hoff. for All Foundation) and Steven Yussen skill, and knowledge, will be reviewed, (Dean, College of Education and Human William G. Graziano (Head, Child and current methods for studying Development, University of Minnesota). Development and Family Studies, Purdue transitions will be described. Evidenced-Based Reading Reform: University): New Directions in Opportunities and Dangers. Invited Symposia Personality Development Theory and Presentations will be made by the Research. Presentations will be made by Ed Cairns (Professor of Psychology, Chairs and by Michael Pressley; Jon the Chair and by Chuck Halverson; University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, Baron; and Steve Fleischman. Rebecca Shiner; Cornelis van Lieshout; England) and Gary Ladd (Professor of and Louis Goldberg. Psychology and Family and Human Committee Participation Development, Arizona State University). Betsy Lozoff (Professor of Pediatrics and Policy and Communications Committee Children and Political Violence. This Director of the Center for Human Growth Symposium: "Developmental will be the Lawrence Frank Symposium and Development, University of Perspectives on Educational Success" for 2003. Presentations to be Michigan) and Theodore D. Wachs announced. (Professor of Psychological Sciences, Committee on Ethnic and Racial Issues Purdue University): Nurturing and Symposium: "Issues of Measurement Cynthia Garcia Coll (Robinson and Nourishing the Developing Brain. in Research with Diverse Ethnic and Palmer Professor of Education, Presentations will be made by the Chairs Racial Groups in the United States" Psychology, and Pediatrics, Chair of and by Michael Georgieff; Marian Sigman Education Department, and Mittelman Publications Committee Symposium: and Maureen Black; and Margaret Family Director of the Center for the "What Do Editors Want? (and Hints on Bentley. Study of Human Development, Brown How To Give It to Them)" University). Developmental Research Robert Plomin (Deputy Director of the with Latinos in the United States: Social, Genetic and Developmental The Submitted Program Conceptual and Methodological Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Proposals were received for 383 Issues. Presentations will be made by Psychiatry, London, England). symposia, 3070 posters, and 27 Raymond Buriel; Robin Harwood; PabloDevelopmental Psychopathology in the discussion hours. For the first time, on- Chavira; and Leslie Reese; with Postgenomics Era. Presentations will be line submitting was possible, and 94.2% discussions by Marlene Zepeda and made by the Chair and by Ian W. Craig; percent of all submitters used the online Cynthia Garcia Coll. Philip Asherson; John C. DeFries; Thalia process. The process of reviewing C. Eley; and Anthony Bailey. Sandra Graham (Professor of Education, submissions online and creating the University of California, Los Angeles). Robert E. Slavin (Co-Director of the Center submitted program will be completed in Peer Aggression and Victimization in for Research on the Education of Students the next few months. Schools: Re-thinking Context, Culture, and Ethnicity. Presentations will be made by Kenneth Dodge; Nancy Guerra YOUR' SRO) Contrfilbutions it WEff and Olivia Pillado; Jaana Juvonen, Adrienne Nishina, and Sandra Graham; SRCD is a nonprofit association and throughout the years, many members have and Rolf Loeber, with a discussion by donated extra amounts when renewing their annual memberships. These Cynthia Hudley. contributions have been put to good use, and below is a brief accounting of how your dollars have supported Society work. Rebecca E. Eilers (Dean, College of o Media and dissemination projects. Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of o The Millennium Fellows Program. Maine) and D. Kimbrough 011er o Maintaining the Oral History Project to preserve the Society's history (Professor and Plough Chair of and long-time member accomplishments. Excellence in Audiology and Speech- o Supporting international participation at our biennial meetings. Language Pathology, University of o Assisting with travel expenses for student biennial meeting attendees. Memphis). Language and Literacy in o Supporting membership for special needs applicants. Bilingual Children: The Miami Please don't hesitate to contact Jennifer Retter ([email protected]; 734-998-6524) Experience. Presentations will be made if you have questions about contributions. by Rebecca Eilers, Alan Cobo-Lewis,

12 JOB OPPORTIJNITY

POSITION OPENING

Applied Human Development Department off Education University of California, Los Angeles

The Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles announces an open rank, tenure-track faculty position in Applied Human Development.

The successful candidate must have a program of developmental research that is relevant to educational and other applied settings, and that demonstrates the candidate's sensitivity to human development in a multiethnic context and her or his ability to take a multidisciplinary perspective. Although the specific area of research is open, we are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: (1) social and emotional development, both typical and atypical; (2) achievement motivation and its relation to learning and instruction; and (3) the intersection between development, learning, and culture. The Department is particularly interested in and values candidates who have experience working in settings and with students from diverse backgrounds. We are also interested in candidates who are engaged in research that advances our understanding of how race, ethnicity, gender and disability impact on human development.

The candidate will be affiliated with the Division of Psychological Studies in Education (PSE) in the Department of Education. PSE is one of the top ranked programs in the country that offers training in the application of child development theory and research to real-life problems and that integrates academic training with experience in settings that are relevant to children and families. The PSE program has been continually supported during the past two decades by an NIMH training grant in applied human development.

QUALIFICATIONS: An earned doctorate in Developmental Psychology, Human Development, or a related field; record of research and scholarly publications; ability to teach and advise students at the graduate level. The successful candidate must have the promise of a strong research record, a willingness to generate extramural funding, and the ability to mentor predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows supported by the NIMH training grant.

TO APPLY: Send application letter describing your research and teaching interests, along with curriculum vitae and sample publications. Applicants at the Associate or Full Professor levels should include the names and addresses of three references. Applicants at the Assistant Professor level should have at least three letters of reference sent directly to:

Daniel G. Solorzano, Chair Department of Education University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. STARTING DATE: July 1, 2003 (teaching duties begin September 2003). DEADLINE: Screening of completed applications will begin on December 15, 2002 and continue until the position is filled. FOR MORE INFO: Contact Prof. Sandra Graham, Chair of the Search Committee, [email protected].

UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.

13 MEMBER NEWS

Call TOT SIffibmilssfOns research that generates authoritative countries outside of North America as new findings and uses these to foster well as within North America. fresh, better integrated, or more Monographs of the SRCD is seeking coherent perspectives on major Willis F. Overton submissions for the 2003 volume. We developmental issues, problems, and Editor invite submissions from people with controversies. The significance of the potential manuscripts that present both work in extending developmental a strong conceptual and empirical theory and contributing definitive advance to our knowledge of empirical information in support of a New Early Research development. If you have such a major conceptual advance is the most Award potential manuscript please contact the critical editorial consideration. Along Editor, Willis Overton, with an with advancing knowledge on The Governing Council of SRCD is electronic proposal (overton@ specialized topics, the series aims to announcing a new award category, temple.edu). The proposal will be enhance cross-fertilization among beginning with the biennial meeting in developmental disciplines and reviewed and feedback given Tampa, April 2003. This award will developmental subfields. Therefore, concerning both the appropriateness of complement those already in place, clarity of the links between the the project to Monographs, and ways which are all at more senior levels. that the project might best be shaped. specific issues under study and questions relating to general developmental processes is The Award for Early Research Contri- The general criteria for acceptance as a butions will be made to a person or important. Monograph are contained in the persons who have distinguished statement of Editorial Policy found in Manuscripts should be at least 80 pages themselves as researchers and scholars, the back of any recent issue. The (including references and tables) in as evidenced through research, publica- essence of this statement reads: length. The upper limit of 175-200 pages tions, and scholarly activities. They The Monographs series is devoted may, under special circumstances, be more should ordinarily be no more than six to publishing developmental flexible. We encourage submissions from years beyond the Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Nominations should be made to Prof. Sir Michael Rutter, Past President, MILESTONES SRCD (Fax: 734-998-6569; Email: [email protected]; Mail: 3131 S. State Lizette Peterson-Homer died on July extraordinarily dedicated teacher. Her Street, Suite 302, Ann Arbor, MI 48108- 1623). Please include the following 18, 2002, of acute pancreatitis. Lizette membership in SRCD began in 1973 and information for your nominee: Name, was born Feb. 24, 1951, in Cedar City, continued until her death. current employment, recent curriculum Utah. She earned her master's degree vitae with complete bibliography and and her doctorate in clinical B. B. Robbie Rossman died on May 5, psychology at the University of Utah, 2001 from cerebral aneurysms. Robbie four key papers marked with an "*", and a short letter providing specific informa- followed by an internship at Salt Lake was born April 13, 1944 in Esteville, IA. tion justifying the nomination. If con- City Veterans Hospital in 1978. Dr. She received her undergraduate and venient, please include copies of the Peterson next joined the University of graduate degrees in Psychology from Missouri-Columbia as an assistant the University of Denver and joined the four highlighted papers. The deadline professor. Dr. Peterson made faculty there in 1970. At the time of her for nominations is November 15, 2002. important contributions to the areas death, Dr. Rossman was a clinical of preparing children undergoing professor on the Child Clinical Faculty in stressful medical procedures, the Psychology Department at the Help Us Help You! preventing child maltreatment, and University of Denver and adjunct identifying the determinants of clinical instructor at the University of We would like to expand the academic unintended injury in childhood. At Colorado Health Science Center. Her exhibit participation for the 2003 the University of MissouriColumbia, research interests were in the area of biennial meeting and ask for your help. where she spent her entire academic children's stress and coping, specifically If you have a book being published in career, she held the rank of Byler in children who experienced the trauma 2002 or 2003, please contact the SRCD Distinguished Professor and of witnessing parental violence and/or Executive Office (srcd(umich.edu; 734- Curators' Professor of Psychological maltreatment. She had been a member of 998-6578) with the details and its Sciences. She also was an SRCD since 1986. publisher.

14 CLASSIFIED ADS

Call for Papers: The Journal of function (behavior, cognitive program. For detailed information Adolescence is planning a Special psychology, neuroelectrophysiology, about the program and department, Issue on the topic of "Video Games attention, etc.). Assistant through see www.uwyo.edu/psyc. Laramie and Public Health Issues." The Full Professor level candidates will be provides a small-town atmosphere journal is particularly interested in considered. This University of and abundant outdoor recreation manuscripts that report new Arkansas faculty position has a opportunities within easy driving empirical research studies. For more competitive salary, new research/office distance of Denver, Boulder, and Ft. information about editors, topics, space, state-of-the-art equipment, Collins, CO. Review of applications submissions, and deadline, go to solid long-term funding and a growing will begin December 1, 2002. the following website: http:// research program. Contact: Dr. Candidates should submit a letter of www.psychology. iastate.edu/ Thomas M. Badger, Director, ACNC, application describing research and faculty/caa/Call for_papers.html. 1120 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR, teaching interests, curriculum vitae, 72202 badgerthomasm @uams.edu. selected reprints, phone numbers Director of Neuroscience. The and e-mail addresses of all refer- Arkansas Children's Nutrition The University of Wyoming ences, and have three letters of Center (ACNC), 1 of 6 national Psychology Department invites reference sent to: Chair, Develop- human nutrition research centers, is applications for a full-time tenure- mental Search Committee, Depart- seeking a Neuroscientist to direct track Assistant Professor position in ment of Psychology, Box 3415 the existing ACNC brain function Developmental Psychology to begin University Station, Laramie, WY program and to develop an in August 2003. The UW Psychology 82071, e-mail: [email protected]. individual research program in any Department offers doctoral degrees in UW is an Equal Opportunity/ field of CNS function. The Developmental, Experimental, and Affirmative Action Employer. candidate (Ph.D. or M.D.) must . We seek a have proven experience in high productive researcher committed to quality clinical research (preferably graduate and undergraduate in children) in any area of CNS education. Minimum requirements ANNOUNCEMENTS function (learning, behavior, include a Ph.D. (required for faculty cognitive psychology, rank) and research in developmental neuroelectrophysiology, attention, psychology; ABD candidates will be SAGE Publications is delighted to etc.). Associate or Full Professor considered. Research area within announce that beginning in February level candidates will be considered. developmental psychology is open, 2003, it will be publishing Young: The This University of Arkansas faculty but scientists whose interests Nordic Journal of Youth Research, one position has a competitive salary, complement current developmental of the major academic journals in the new research/office space, state-of- strengths (cognitive, social, applied) Youth Studies arena. For more informa- the-art equipment, solid long-term or expand on them (e.g., aging, tion, please visit the journal website at funding and a growing research applications in rural settings) are www.sagepub.co.uk, or contact Jay program. Contact: Dr. Thomas M. preferred. Preference will also be Curtis, Marketing Manager at SAGE Badger, Director, ACNC, 1120 given to scholars who will conduct Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London, Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR, interdisciplinary research or EC2A 4PU, UK, Fax: +44 (0) 207 374 72202 [email protected]. contribute to other existing strengths 8741, Email: jay.curtisesagepub.co.uk. in the department (e.g., social Neuroscientist. The Arkansas cognition, group dynamics, The Judge Baker Children's Center Children's Nutrition Center psychology and law, personality, and the Children's Hospital (ACNC), 1 of 6 national human primary care, disability, depression, Department of Psychiatry will be co- nutrition research centers, is trauma, prevention). Position sponsoring the 2002-2003 Academic seeking a Neuroscientist to join a responsibilities include: graduate and Teaching Conference Series, running on team studying the effects of diet undergraduate teaching (UW has a biweekly basis from September 25, and nutritional status on child brain both on-campus and off-campus 2002 through May 14, 2003. For more function. The candidate (Ph.D. or undergraduate programs), academic information, please contact Catherine M.D.) must have experience in high advising, research supervision of Fontaine ([email protected]; quality clinical research (preferably graduate students, and the 617-232-8390 ext. 2104) or visit the in children) in any area of CNS development of a productive research website (wwwjbcc.harvard.edu/ lectures.htm).

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18th Annual Learning Differences Vancouver, British Columbia, CA. For Conference, "Learning How to Learn: more information and a call for papers, SRCD Developments Linking Neuropsychological Insights to contact Marilyn Montgomery (srif@fiu. Education," November 1-2, 2002, at the edu) or visit the website: http://srif. Editor Harvard Graduate School of Education. sdstate.edu. Pamela Trotman Reid This year's conference will emphasize [email protected] the application of theory and research Call for Papers, Symposia, and Posters: to educational practice. Opportunities The Jean Piaget Society invites program Managing Editor will be available for in-depth discussion submissions for the 33rd Annual Meeting Thelma Tucker with faculty during the optional to take place in Chicago, IL, June 5-7, 2003. [email protected] sessions. For more information and/or Submission deadline is December 1, 2002. Memoirs Editor to register, visit www.gse.harvard.edu/ Please visit the Jean Piaget Society website Frances Degen Horowitz ppe. http://www.piaget.org for submission details and on-line submission forms, or [email protected] Call for Papers of the Society for write to: Colette Daiute, The Graduate Research in Adult Development.Email Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, The Newsletter is published four times Admin@adultdevelopment. org or go to NY 10016; [email protected]. a year: Circulation is approximately http://www.adultdevelopment.org/ for 5,500. The newslettter is distributed to Call for Papers. Submissions due The Family Research Consortium III, all members of the SRCD including researchers, practitioners in the field of November 25, 2002. This year's theme is supported by the National Institute of child development, social and behavioral the present status of adolescent and Mental Health, will sponsor a 2003 sciences, social workers, administrators, adult stages and the possibility of Summer Institute for family researchers, physicians, nurses, educators, and different stages for different domains. "Intervention as Science," at the Hyatt students. Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Santa Velma E. Schmidt Fall Conference, Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, from June 26 - The newsletter publishes announce- "Looking Ahead: Developing Bright 29, 2003. Application deadline is Friday, ments, articles, and ads that may be of Futures for Young Children," will be March 28, 2003. For applications and/or interest to members of the Society, as held at the Gateway Center, University more information contact: Dee Frisque, Ph: space permits. of North Texas, Denton, TX, December (814) 863-7108; Fax: (814) 863-7109; Email: Copy deadlines: 6, 2002. 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