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This is the kickoff for the Talks at Twelve Series from the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR).

Jennifer Tiffany will reflect on and draw examples from her 36-year career leading programs at Cornell, highlighting approaches that offer inspiration and potential pathways forward in these times. This talk will focus on community-engaged translational research with an emphasis on infrastructures supporting sustained partnerships that put communities first while also honoring academic expertise.

 Jennifer Tiffany began her

Elizabeth (Lissa) Riley received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her PhD from the Boston University School of Medicine. She trained at the Boston VA Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School as a Special Geriatric Fellow before coming to Cornell as a postdoctoral fellow with a National Institute on Aging National Research Service Award F32 fellowship. She is now a Research Associate. In 2024, she was named a National Institute on Aging Butler Williams Scholar.

Through my life and research experiences, I've become fascinated with the question: how do we tap into our full potential? Specifically, I investigate "learning readiness", or the social, cognitive and neural features that predict academic motivation and learning success. I believe these clues will reveal the depths of an individual's potential to learn. And tracking the development of these features, as well as how they vary over time, across individuals from diverse backgrounds, and across

John Eckenrode is Professor of Human Development and Associate Director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research. He is also founder and Co-Director of the National Data Archive of Child Abuse and Neglect. His research concerns child abuse and neglect, the effects of preventive interventions, translational research, and stress and coping processes. He is a social psychologist (Tufts, 1979), has authored numerous journal articles and chapters, and has edited three books, Stress Between Work and

Andrea Parrot Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 1981.  She teaches courses in Contemporary Issues in Women's Health, Human Sexuality, the Global Perspective on Violence Against Women, Reproductive Health Policy, and Medical Ethics. Her research interests have revolved around women's health issues, sexual assault, infertility, and cross cultural women's health and violence against women. She earned her MS at SUNY