[Prevscilist] Tyler Lecture and Grad Student Lunch

[Prevention Science Program]

Hi counseling psychology and prevention science grad students!

On Friday, November 10th, the Leona Tyler Lecture Series will welcome Dr. Dorothy Espelage to campus to deliver a talk titled, Research-informed school-based bullying prevention approaches: Narrowing the research-practice gap.

Dr. Espelage is Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. She is the recipient of the APA Lifetime Achievement Award in Prevention Science and the 2016 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana University in 1997. Over the last 20 years, she has authored over 140 peer reviewed articles, five edited books, and 30 chapters on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, dating violence, and gang violence. Her research focuses on translating empirical findings into prevention and intervention programming and she has secured six and half million dollars of external funding. She advises members of Congress and Senate on bully prevention legislation. She conducts regular webinars for CDC, NIH, and NIJ to disseminate research. She authored a 2011 White House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference in 2011, and has been a consultant on the stopbullying.gov<http://stopbullying.gov/> website and consultant to the National Anti-bullying Campaign, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She has presented multiple times at the Federal Partnership to End Bullying Summit and Conference. She is a consultant to the National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Initiative to address bullying and youth suicide. Dr. Espelage has appeared on many television news and talk shows, including The Today Show, CNN, CBS Evening News, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Anderson 360 and has been quoted in the national print press, including Time Magazine, USA Today, People, Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. I could go on and on but will, instead, direct you to her website:

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/espelage/

At this time, we (the Leona Tyler committee) are attempting to gauge grad student interest in lunch with Dr. Espelage, 11:45AM-1PM, on Friday, November 10th. Please email me (Nichole Kelly) by no later than Monday, October 16th (one week from today), to express your interest in attending the grad student lunch.

We're so excited to welcome Dr. Espelage to campus, and we hope you share our enthusiasm.

Nichole Kelly, PhD
Assistant Evergreen Professor
Counseling Psychology and Human Services
Prevention Science Institute
College of Education
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
nicholek at uoregon.edu<mailto:nicholek at uoregon.edu>
(541) 346-2183
https://education.uoregon.edu/users/nichole-kelly

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