News & Events
Here you will find upcoming and recent events, public information, as well as book and press releases from the Zigler Center.
Events
Weekly Social Policy Lecture Series
The Zigler Center’s weekly Social Policy Lecture Series meets Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during the academic year. For more information, see our Lecture Series page.
The School of the 21st Century National Conference
The School of the 21st Century National Conference "Yes We Care!" is scheduled for July 25-27 in Arkansas. For more information, see the 21C web site.
Zigler Center Renaming Ceremony
On July 25, 2005, a celebration to mark the renaming of the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy to The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy was held. Guest speakers included U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd; U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro; U.S. Rep. John Larson; New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr.; former U.S. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond; Connecticut Education Commissioner Betty Sternberg; and Tim Shriver, chairman of the International Special Olympics. Read the press release, or media coverage of the event from the New Haven Register and Medicine@Yale.
Public Information
Interviews:
Zigler Center faculty member, Dorothy Singer, discusses play on The Browser.
Zigler Center Senior Associate, Misty Ginicola, discusses using dogs to combat bullying on CNN.
Zigler faculty member John Leventhal discusses his work on child abuse with the Yale Daily Bulletin, April 27, 2011.
Zigler faculty member Pia Rebello Britto describes her work in international child development. March 2011
Yale Prof and the Finer Points of a Child's Time Out, Alan Kazdin, August 3, 2008
Finding Blooms Amid the Ashes, Linda Mayes, Medicine@Yale, July/August 2008
Opinion Essays:
The Sweet and Lowdown on Sugar written by Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle for The New York Times
Popular Media Articles:
Restaurants as Obesity Cops Doesn't Sit Well, USA Today, February 5, 2008, with quote from Kelly Brownell, Zigler Center faculty
Out of Control-Families Turn to Pediatricians for help when child care centers threaten expulsion, American Academy of Pediatrics News, July 2007, with quote from Walter Gilliam.
Breaking the Tantrum Cycle on work by Alan Kazdin, Zigler Center faculty, for Yale Alumni Magazine
Testimony:
Book Releases
Released in August 2011, The Pre-K Debates: Current Controversies and Issues edited by Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gilliam & W. Steven Barnett. For information see our Publications page.
Press Releases
A study by Zigler Center faculty of Parents as Teachers shows the program's positive impact. Click here for a press release.
A Vision for Universal Preschool Education, by Edward Zigler, Walter Gilliam and Stephanie Jones, won the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Read a press release here.
A study by Walter Gilliam, Zigler Center Director, found that Pre-K students are expelled at a rate more than three times that of children in grades K-12. Read a press release on this study. A follow-up report that advocates policies to reduce expulsion of the nation’s youngest students was released on January 10, 2008. Read a press release here.
