Weekly Digest: March 27, 2008

Discovery Website Events Calendar

Check out the Discovery Website Calendar!  It has been updated with information about upcoming Discovery events.  This calendar is now THE place to go for information about upcoming Discovery events.

Honorable Edward Meyer, Senator and Chair, of the Select Committee on Children to Speak at the Yale Zigler Center TOMORROW

The Honorable Edward Meyer, Connecticut State Senator and Chair, Connecticut Select Committee on Children, will speak tomorrow (March 28th) a the Yale Zigler Center on “The Battle in Hartford for the Support of Children” from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the William L. HARKNESS Hall (WLH), Room 116 at 100 Wall Street (near College Street), New Haven.

For more information on the lecture series, visit the Zigler Center website at http://ziglercenter.yale.edu/index.html or e-mail questions to Sandra Bishop at  Sandra.Bishop@Yale.edu or call her at 203-432-9935.

Report from the National Summit on America's Children

Pathways from Brain Research to Policy is a new report based on highlights from the National Summit on America's Children. The summit, hosted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in May 2007, convened scientists from across the nation to share current research findings on brain development of children with Congress. This report showcases these finding and important policy implications discussed at the summit.

The report can be found on Speaker Pelosi's website at http://www.speaker.gov/pdf/CS3108.pdf