Patrick T Sharkey - NYU
The Effects of Local Violence on Children's Cognitive Functioning & Academic Performance
Date: 01/17/2013 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Social Sciences 111
Organizer: Amar Hamoudi
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
*** - All meetings (unless otherwise noted) will be in 213 Soc-Sci - ***
10:00am - please HOLD OPEN for now (potential conflict for Patrick)
10:30am - Liz Ananat
11:00am - Ryan Brown, Nick Ingwersen
11:30am - OPEN
12:00pm - Lunch (Faculty Commons): Candice Odgers
1:00pm - Meet w/ DuPRI Students: Maria Laurito, Greg Callanan
1:45pm - Katherine King
2:15pm - Elizabeth Frankenberg (221-A Social-Sciences)
2:45pm - Amar Hamoudi (221-A Social-Sciences)
3:15pm - Seminar Prep (111 Soc-Sci)
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:30pm - Dinner: Amar Hamoudi, Liz Ananat, Sandra Albrecht, ... (1 or 2 more)
Additional Comments: ABSTRACT: How does living in a violent environment "get into the minds" of children to affect them as they engage in daily life at home and in school? The research I will discuss develops new methods to identify the causal effect of exposure to incidents of extreme violence in children's neighborhoods. By exploiting the timing of events that occur in children's neighborhoods, this research examines how violence affects children's cognitive functioning, their ability to maintain attention and control impulses, and their performance in school.