Program of Interest

Adriana Galván

THURSDAY June 4, 2015

After-lunch Program

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center

Time:  1:00 (Refreshments), 1:30 (Program) 

[Joint Program of the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association. You are welcome to attend, even if you are not retired!]

Speaker:  Associate Professor Adriana Galván (Psychology)

Title:  The Developing Adolescent Brain: Implications for Policy

About the Speaker: 

Adriana Galván, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA.  She is also the Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory and an executive member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA. The overall goal of her laboratory is to understand adolescent behavior by using neuroimaging methods to study the changing adolescent brain.  Specifically, she examines the role of stress, sleep habits, puberty, and social relationships on adolescent risk-taking and decision making.  Her work has been disseminated broadly in academic journals including The Journal of Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Neuron and funded by the National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, The Jacobs Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Her research has been featured in several media outlets, in a TEDx talk on the adolescent brain and cited in U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding juvenile justice (Graham v. Florida, 2010; Miller v. Alabama, 2012). Dr. Galván received her B.A in Neuroscience from Barnard College, Columbia University (2001) and her Ph.D. from Cornell Medical School (2006). She conducted her postdoctoral research fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association Boyd McCandless Young Scholar Award, the Jacobs Foundation Young Scholar Award, a Network Scholar Award of The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, and the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award.

Arranged by Emeritus Professor Robert Bjork

Full disclosure: Yours truly is prez of the UCLA Emeriti Assn. However, he has a sense, from personal experience back in the day, that many faculty well below retirement age will find themselves coping with this topic.