BIRCWH | Seminar Series 2012

All those interested in the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Program are invited to attend the seminars in our 2012 Seminar Series. The Seminar Series will be held from 12 Noon-3:00 PM monthly January through June and September through December 2012 alternating each month between the Hershey and University Park campuses. Attendance at the seminars is required for the BIRCWH Scholars. An informal networking luncheon will be held at noon with each seminar beginning at 12:30 PM. Please find below the list of 2012 BIRCWH Seminar Series dates, alternating campus locations, and seminar titles and speakers (to date). Please note that the Seminar Series will not be accessible via videoconference because we want to encourage cross-campus networking.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you have about the Penn State BIRCWH Program or the BIRCWH Seminar Series. We look forward to seeing all attendees of the 2012 seminars!

12:00 Noon-3:00 PM: Lunch is served

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic/Title
Monday January 9, 2012	University Park Life Sciences Building Room 401G	Michelle Frisco, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography Penn State College of Liberal Arts	Young Women's Weight and Fertility Trajectories
Monday February 6, 2012	Hershey Academic Support Building Room 2200	Craig Meyers, PhD Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Penn State College of Medicine	When is a Virus not a Virus? Structural and Biological Studies on Native Human Papillomavirus
Monday March 12, 2012	University Park Life Sciences Building Room 401G	Leann Birch, PhD Distinguished Professor of Human Development Penn State College of Health and Human Development and Ian Paul, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences Penn State College of Medicine	A Hershey-UP Collaboration to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Monday April 2, 2012	Hershey Academic Support Building Room 2200	Nancy E. Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN Associate Professor of Community-Public Health Johns Hopkins University	Implementing a Multidisciplinary Research Program To Respond To The Global Challenge of Violence Against Women and Girls
Monday May 7, 2012	University Park Life Sciences Building Room 401G	Courtenay Cavanaugh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology Rutgers University	Mental Health Problems and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Monday June 4, 2012	Hershey Academic Support Building Room 2200	Rachel Hess, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Clinical and Translational Sciences University of Pittsburgh	Menopause, Quality of Life, and Sexual Functioning...A Journey Book Club Discussion
Monday September 10, 2012	University Park Life Sciences Building Room 401G
Monday October 1, 2012	Hershey Academic Support Building Room 2200
Monday November 5, 2012	University Park Life Sciences Building Room 401G
Monday December 3, 2012	Hershey Academic Support Building Room 2200

2012 Penn State BIRCWH Seminar Series