Past Events
We have promoted prevention science events for over 20 years. Find all of our past events here.
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April 17, 2024
PRC Seminar: “A Call for Race Scholarship”
Harrison Pinckney, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
April 4, 2024
Coffee with Craig Featuring the 25th Anniversary of the Prevention Research Center
Mark Greenberg, founding director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, and Max Crowley, Director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
April 3, 2024
Lecture on Compassion: “The Need to Imagine: How Humans Transcend Reality Through Compassion, Awe, and Aesthetics”
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center
April 3, 2024
Compassion Workshop: “Flourishing Kin: The Transcendent Compassion of Indigenous Traditions”
Yuria Celidwen, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Institute for Othering and Belonging
March 29, 2024
Annual Conference of Penn State’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction
Keynote Speaker: R. Lorraine Collins, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, University at Buffalo
March 27, 2024
Virtual Briefing: “Building Sustainable Infrastructure to Implement Programs that Promote Healthy Development and Prevent Behavioral and Mental Health Problems”
Abigail Fagan, Ph.D., Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, University of Florida
Zili Sloboda, ScD, President, Applied Prevention Science
Pamela Buckley, PhD Associate Research Professor, University of Colorado Boulder and Principal Investigator, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
Lisa Hill, CEO of Invest in Kids
March 27, 2024
PRC Seminar: “Psychological and Neurobiological Predictors of Clinicians’ Pain Assessment and Treatment Decisions”
Elizabeth Losin, Ph.D., Bennett Pierce Associate Professor in Caring and Compassion in Adulthood & Director of the Social and Cultural Neuroscience Lab at Penn State
March 21, 2024
Lecture: “Sleep Well! A Family-Centered and Health Equity-Informed Behavioral Sleep Intervention”
Ariel Williamson, Ph.D., DBSM, Assistant Professor in The Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health, University of Oregon
March 13, 2024
4th Annual Lecture on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Prevention Science and Practice: “Facilitating Institutional Change for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism”
Mary Lai Rose, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Programs, Diversity & Inclusion, Office of the Associate Provost for Community & Inclusion, Boston University