The Edward Zigler Center
in Child Development and
Social Policy

Welcome and thank you for visiting the Zigler Center Website.

In addition to reading background information (including mission and history), visitors can read about the people associated with our center, and access information on our training program and lecture series that are ongoing at Yale University. Each year at the Zigler Center our faculty and fellows are active in several research and policy projects. Activities also include writing our annual report, producing several policy-relevant publications, providing interviews for popular media, giving testimony at governmental proceedings, and providing support and technical assistance to a network of over 1300 public schools nationwide through the Center’s School of the 21st Century program.

For information on giving donations to assist the Zigler Center and its mission, you can read information on our Contributing to the Zigler Center page.

News & Events

Netcasts!

Audio netcasts of the Zigler Center lecture series are being posted on the Yale Office of Public Affairs Netcasts web site! The netcasts are shorter versions of the lectures presented in the series. To see a full list of our netcasts, visit our Netcast page.

Cindy Crusto, a Zigler Center mid-career fellow was among the grantees who will share $98 million in new funding at Yale under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Dr. Crusto will lead a Grand Opportunity grant examining the multiple social determinants of the health of young children.

“[Beverage companies] have spent decades convincing people it's glamorous, sexy and athletic to be drinking sugared beverages, and it's time for some of that damage to be undone." Kelly Brownell, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2009

For more information see our news and events page.

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Lecture Series

Our lecture series is free and open to the public. It meets most Fridays during the academic year from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm., in WLH 116 (100 Wall St.). You can download our current lecture series schedule or visit our Training Program page for more information.

The next talk in our series is on Februrary 12. Geoffrey Miller , Professor, Yale School of Medicine, will be speaking on "Extreme Prematurity: A Polemic on Truth and Justice and Some Speculation on the Intuitive Aspects of Foregoring Life Sustining Treatment".

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Zigler Alumni News

MegaSkills ®, a program developed by Zigler Center alumna Dorothy Rich, was recently honored by Congressman Michael N. Castle of Delaware. Click here for more information.