The BLCC sponsors a variety of events throughout the year. These include an annual major lecture, a semi-annual invitational confer- ence, and colloquia featuring prominent national and international scholars whose work focuses on interdisciplinary, demographic, and life course issues.

The lecture and colloquia are open to faculty, staff, and students from the Cornell and local community. The goal of these events is to offer access to emerging seminal research as well as to provide networking opportunities and a sense of community among Cornell faculty and staff.

2011 - 2012 BLCC News and Events:

The Third Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference

Whether the decision is to have unprotected sex, consent to surgery, spend rather than save for retirement, or have an extra piece of pie, risky decisions permeate our lives, sometimes with disastrous consequences. How and why risk taking occurs remains a mystery that has important implications for law, medicine, economics, and public policy. Building on a recent surge of research on risky decision making across the life span, leading neuroeconomists, neuroscientists, and social scientists will convene in Ithaca to present and discuss their latest findings, and to develop a framework for future research. Their work spans such topics as the changing impact of rewards and punishments at different ages, emotional regulation and self control, and individual differences in personality, among other social, cognitive, biological, and developmental factors that shape risky behavior. The goals of the conference are to advance basic understanding and scientific theory about the brain mechanisms underlying risky decision making, paving the way for translation of basic science into policy and practice. The event will provide an impetus to multiple interdisciplinary initiatives on campus, including the acquisition of a new magnet for neuroimaging to be housed in the College of Human Ecology. The conference is sponsored by the Judgment, Decision, Making and Social Behavior Project of the Institute for the Social Sciences and by the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the new Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

Speakers include:

Antoine Bechara	Professor of Psychology	University of Southern California
Eveline Crone	Professor, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Institute of Psychology	Leiden University
Paul Glimcher	Director, Center for Neuroeconomics; Professor, Neural Science, Economics, and Psychology; Associate Professor, Economics; Associate Professor, Neural Science and Psychology, Center for Neural Science	New York University
Jay Giedd	Chief, Unit on Brain Imaging, Child Psychiatry Branch	National Institute of Mental Health
Scott Huettel	Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Decision Sciences; Interim Co-Director, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences; Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience	Duke University
Brian Knutson	Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience	Stanford University
Beatriz Luna	Founder and Director, Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development; Associate Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Professor, Psychology	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Kevin Ochsner	Director, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory; Associate Professor, Psychology	Columbia University
Philip Zelazo	Professor,Institute of Child Develpment	University of Minnesota

Registration required. Conact Carrie Chalmers for further information.

Speakers and discussants, click here for further information.

Conference attendees, click here for further information.

IMAGINE: The Ithaca-Manhattan Initiative in Neuroscience

Past BLCC Events:

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CITRA News and Events:

The Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging (CITRA) hosts workshops and events that support their goal of improving the lives of older people by translating research knowledge into practice. Consensus workshops are a participatory method that CITRA uses to bridge the gap between research and practice. They are designed to address the need for meaningful dialogue between researchers and practitioners, to identify discrepancies between interventions recommended by research and the actual experience of practitioners, and to obtain practitioner suggestions for the future research agenda.

The CITRA web site provides additional detailed information about their news and events.

CPP News and Events

The Cornell Population Program (CPP) hosts an annual seminar series and other events that support their mission of coordinating and promoting national and international population research, encouraging cross-disciplinary innovation, facilitating research funding, improving interdisciplinary training, and converting academic studies into policy recommendations and guidance for practitioners. These events provide Cornell faculty with access to national and international scholars whose research is related to the CPP mission.

The CPP web site provides additional detailed information about their news and events.

PAD News and Events

The Program on Applied Demographics (PAD) hosts workshops that support their goals of applying demographics methods and techniques to the latest economic and population trends. These workshops teach Cornell faculty, staff and students how to use demographic and economic data for a number of purposes, including community profiles, planning, and program evaluations.

The PAD web site provides additional detailed information about their news and events.