Tufts University Center for Children

Each year, TUCC sponsors a conference focusing on an interdisciplinary issue related to children, families, and their communities. Different viewpoints and experiences have been featured in the conferences, through faculty panels, presentations from faculty and students, poster sessions, and speakers from Tufts and the outside community. Overall, these
conferences have garnered enthusiastic participation from the Tufts community, and have brought together faculty and students, as well as people from community organizations, on these issues.

Beginning in 2003, TUCC changed the format of its conferences to feature a keynote speaker with a Tufts faculty response panel. The aim of this revised format is to foster dialogue among the participants on the theme of the conference, with the hope of establishing an interdisciplinary research collaboration.

2004 Conferences:

Healthy Communities: Children and Asthma, the First in a Series of Workshops on Children and the Environment (Co-sponsored with Tufts Institute of the Environment and the Lead Action Collaborative).

For information on past conferences, please click on the links below:

2004 Conferences:

Animals in the Lives of Children - A Biocentric Perspective on Development (Co-sponsored with the Eliot-Pearson Dept. of Child Development and the Center for Animals and Public Policy at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine)

2003 Conferences:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Brain Development in Children (Co-Sponsored with UCCPS)

Spirituality: Its Role in Child and Youth Development (Co-sponsored with ADSI, University Chaplain, and UCCPS)

2002 Conference:

On Behalf of Children: Scholarship and Active Citizenship (Co-Sponsored with UCCPS) This section is currently being updated.

2001 Conference:

Children in Crisis - Facing Risks, Fostering Resilience

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