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| 2009 - 2010 |
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September 2009: Journal of College and Character
Matthew J. Bundick
Interview: "Finding the Good Life: How Positive Psychology Can Help College Students to Discover and Utilize Their Personal Strengths and Virtues"
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| 2008 - 2009 |
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August 2008: American Psychological Association, Boston, MA
- Matthew J. Bundick, David S. Yeager, and William Damon
Division 7: Developmental Psychology
Poster: "Correlates and Developmental Trends of Thriving in Adolescence"
- Seana Moran
Division 32: Humanistic Psychology
Poster: "Adolescents' Emic Understanding of Purpose"
Division 10: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
Paper: "Commitment and Creativity"
- David S. Yeager and William Damon
Division 8: Personality and Social
Poster: "A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach to Predicting Social Psychological Phenomena"
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August 18, 2008: United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
Symposium on Emerging Issues in Character Education
William Damon, Director
Talk: "Cultivating Character Education in High Schools"
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August 28-30, 2008: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
(EARLI),
Canterbury, United Kingdom
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "The Beliefs and Values of Gifted Finnish Adolescents"
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September, 2008: European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Prague, Czech Republic
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Educating Talents for the Future: Industrial and School Co-operation in Practice" | |
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September, 2008: Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Helsinki. Finland
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Talented Students" | |
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November, 2008: Association for Moral Education, Notre Dame, IN
- Matthew C. Andrews
Paper: "Moral Values in the Context of Adolescent Ideology and Purpose in Life"
- Kendall Cotton Bronk
Poster: "Purpose, Hope and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents"
- Matthew J. Bundick, Seana Moran, David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, and William Damon
Paper: "Fostering Purpose in Adolescence: The Roles of Social Supports, Individual Characteristics, and Activity Involvements"
- Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Teachers’ Ethical Sensitivity in Critical Incidents at School"
- Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Two Worlds in One Person: Giftedness and Spirituality"
- David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, Seana Moran, and William Damon
Paper: "The Forms of Purpose in Adolescence"
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December, 2008: Joy of Learning - A Cicero Learning Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "School as a Good Work Place for Both Teachers and Learners: The Professional Ethics of Teachers"
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December 12, 2008: Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto, CA
William Damon, Center Director
Article: "Late to launch: the come-home kids. What it takes for young people to find their purpose in life."
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January, 2009: Mawhiba Forum, Saudi Arabia
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
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January, 2009: Helsinki University Bulletin, Helsinki, Finland
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Article, Page 18: "To Be Able To Do What You Love"
Shorter version of this article
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March, 2009: Dublin City University, Ireland
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
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April 1, 2009: 5th Annual Conference on Character and Civic Education, Fresno, CA
William Damon, Center Director
Keynote Address: "The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life"
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April, 2009: American Education Research Association, San Diego, CA
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: Journal Talk: "High Ability Studies"
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May, 2009: European Council for High Ability-Austria, University of Salzburg
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote Address: "Holistic Education for Gifted Students"
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May, 2009: Midwest Psychological Association. Chicago, IL
Kendall Cotton Bronk
Poster: "Categories of Purpose in Life among Adolescents"
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June 18-21, 2009: International Positive Psychology Association
First World Congress on Positive Psychology, Philadelphia, PA
Ulisses Ferreira Araújo, Matthew J. Bundick, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, Seana Moran, Kirsi Tirri
Symposium: "Finding Purpose in Three Societies: Cultural and Developmental Analyses"
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June, 2009: National Institutes of Health Minority Opportunities in Research Program
Directors Meeting, Colorado Springs, CO
Seana Moran
Plenary Session: "Purpose, Commitment and Creativity"
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July, 2009: Annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Madison, WI
Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "Developing a sense of purpose among youth: The role of agrarian values"
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July, 2009: Association for Moral Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Seana Moran
Paper: "Adolescent Aspirations for Change: Tolerance and Creativity"
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| 2007 - 2008 |
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August, 2007: American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA
Matthew J. Bundick, Matthew C. Andrews, and William Damon
Poster: "New Perspectives on Youth Purpose: 'Seeking Purpose' versus 'Having Purpose'"
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November, 2007: Association for Moral Education, New York, NY
- Kendall Cotton Bronk
Paper: “The Role of Purpose in Moral Functioning of Adolescents”
- Seana Moran
Paper: “The Moral Purposes of Creators”
Paper: “Commitment in Democracy”
- Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: “Morality, Spirituality and Global Citizenship”
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November, 2007: Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA
Matthew C. Andrews
Talk: “Teaching Our Teenagers to be Good People” |
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February 4, 2008: Stanford Student Research Conference, Stanford, CA
David S. Yeager, Matthew J. Bundick, Matthew C. Andrews, William Damon
Paper: “Comparing Adolescent Purpose and Self-Oriented Life Goals in Career Aspirations” |
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March 8, 2008: Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, IL
- Matthew C. Andrews
Paper: “Uncertainty, Identity and Emotional Complexity in Youth Purpose”
- Kendall Cotton Bronk
Paper: “New Perspective on Youth Purpose”
- David S. Yeager and Matthew J. Bundick
Paper: “Presence and Integration of Adolescent Self and Beyond-the-Self Oriented Life Goals” |
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March, 2008: American Education Research Association, New York, NY
- Seana Moran
Paper: "Commitment and Creativity"
- Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Comparison of Academically Average and Gifted Students' Self-Rated Ethical Sensitivity"
- David S. Yeager, Matthew C. Andrews, Matthew J. Bundick and William Damon
Paper: "Integration of Adolescent Career and Pro-social Aspirations" |
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April, 2008: Annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR
Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "Looking toward the future" |
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May 12, 2008: New Hampshire Department of Education, Bedford, NH
Teacher Development "Purpose Day"
Seana Moran
Talk: "What is Youth Purpose?" |
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May 15, 2008: Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Washington, D.C.
William Damon, Director
Talk: "Preventing 'Failure to Launch': Is Service a Path to Purpose?" |
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June 12, 2008: Conference on Postmodern Spirituality, Turku, Finland
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote address: "Spirituality in Education" |
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July 2-4, 2008: IV International Congress of University Teaching and Innovation, Lleida, Spain
Ulisses Ferreira Araújo, Visiting Scholar
Paper: "Fostering Citizenship on Higher Education: The Experience of the University of Sao Paulo" |
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July, 2008: 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness, Singapore
Kirsi Tirri, Visiting Scholar
Keynote address: "Gifted Students as Citizens for the Future"
Parent workshop: "The Role of the Home in Nurturing Talent" |
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July, 2008: Annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Manchester, NH
Devora Shamah and K.A. MacTavish
Paper: "A sense of purpose and a sense of place: Examining rural residence and adolescent development" |
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