Center board member Adriana Galván has been named UCLA’s dean of undergraduate education. In addition to serving on the Center’s Leadership Team and National Scientific Council, Professor Galván is a professor of psychology, holds the Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience, and is director of the Developmental Neuroscience Lab at UCLA. Congratulations, Adriana!
In a new op-ed in Youth Today, CDA advisory board member Karen Pittman references CDA research, reacts to the new Netflix show “Adolescence,” and describes how we can support adolescents by increasing structured opportunities for young people to explore their interests with people and in places that matter to them.
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NSCA Member Candice Odgers is quoted in a Nature article debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. “Science to date does not support the widespread panic around social media and [adolescent] mental health,” says Odgers.
