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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>A friendly reminder of colloquium today at 10 am. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/23 8:10 AM, Atika Khurana
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Ballmer Institute for Children’s
Behavioral Health and College of Education invite you to attend
the colloquium by open-rank tenure track faculty candidate, Dr.
Alexis Merculief</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date & time: <b>Tues. 12/12 @
10am-11:30am (PST)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zoom link: <a href="https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92309864521?pwd=Zy9TclFEOVh1M1ZOTFYzdm5PV2x2Zz09" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92309864521?pwd=Zy9TclFEOVh1M1ZOTFYzdm5PV2x2Zz09</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Colloquium
Title</b>: Nurturing Minds and Spirits: The Role of Cultural
Resilience for Indigenous Child Behavioral and Cognitive Health</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Colloquium
Abstract:</b> Children from American Indian/Alaska Native
(AI/AN) and other underserved backgrounds are raised in
environments rich with supportive community relationships and
cultural connections. At the same time, historical trauma and
resulting poverty have brought systemic barriers to healthy
development, including risks in the built and social
environment. These risks present persistent stressors that
negatively impact child behavioral and cognitive health.
However, individuals, families, communities, and cultures bring
their own sources of resilience. One well known individual
resilience factor, and predictor of mental, physical, and
socioemotional health, is strong self-regulation. Yet, little is
known about how features of cultural resilience develop
alongside and even support emerging self-regulation and
executive function skills in preschool. With a focus on
Indigenous theory, Alexis will unpack reconceptualizations of
environmental risk, resilience, and self-regulation and how
these can move the field forward with the goal of supporting
Indigenous child behavioral health. Alexis will also share novel
findings from her current work that demonstrate cultural and
language socialization practices by parents as promoters and
protectors of child cognitive health. </p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Bio:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> Alexis Merculief is a developmental
scientist interested in how features of the built and social
environment influence early childhood behavioral and cognitive
health (specifically, executive function); as well as how
aspects of community and cultural resilience can promote
long-term health and academic achievement for children from
American Indian, Alaska Native, and other underserved
populations. Alexis received her Ph.D. in Human Development and
Family Studies from Oregon State University in June of 2023, and
is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Equity in Early
Education (E3) postdoctoral fellowship program at Stanford
University. Alexis is an Aleut (Unangax) tribal member and
previously worked to promote education, health, and cultural
connection in American Indian/Alaska Native children through
youth program development at an Urban AI/AN health organization
in Seattle.</span>
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