A Presentation by Meihua Zhu, PhD Monday, April 6, 2015 Click here to view the presentation slides. China has now experienced several decades of rapid economic development following the “reform and opening” that began in 1978. Yet, poverty, both urban … Read more

A Presentation by Melissa Lippold, PhD Monday, February 23, 2015 Parent-child relationships are not stagnant–rather they ebb and flow, changing from day to day. Most studies on parenting use global reports, which capture overall perceptions of parenting, but miss the … Read more

A Presentation by Gary Nelson, DSW UNC School of Social Work Monday, January 26, 2015 Click here to view the presentation slides. We are on the verge of a revolution, a democratic awakening and transformation of our state and social … Read more

A Presentation by Roderick Rose, PhD UNC School of Social Work Monday, November 24, 2014 Click here to view the presentation slides. The directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a tool for causal inference developed by Judea Pearl. DAGs have the … Read more

A Presentation by Mimi Chapman, Associate Professor UNC School of Social Work Monday, October 27, 2014 Images shape how we think and behave in powerful ways. Indeed, media culture saturates us in “visual interventions” designed to change our choices and … Read more