(FLDC)
FLDC works to improve professional and public efforts to understand and deal with risk factors in the lives of children, youth, families, and communities that lead to family violence and neglect.
BLCC fosters collaborative research, outreach, and educational efforts dedicated to understanding the forces and experiences that shape human development throughout all stages of the life course.
(CIRC)
CIRC conducts and commissions international scholars to collaborate on broad-ranging research on questions relevant to children and families (e.g., effects of heavy metal exposure on cognition, validity of parental fitness evaluations in child custody determinations). CIRC also sponsors "Thinking Like a Scientist," an education-outreach program targeting girls, youth of color, and youth from economically-disadvantaged backgrounds. The program trains thinking and reasoning using the scientific method applied to problems in daily life.
Cornell Institute for Women in Science
(CIWS)
CIWS conducts research and disseminates information on various topics relevant
to women's experiences in scientific careers.
CECP integrates applied research with teaching, extension outreach, and demonstration to promote greater understanding of young children and their families and contribute to policies and practices that enhance child growth and development.
The CLAL is interdisciplinary, combining developmental psychology with linguistics, in order to compare first language acquisition across many languages and so answer questions about the universal properties of language development.
With active faculty and student participation from a diverse set of departments, Cognitive Studies's current strengths in philosophy of mind and language, theoretical and experimental linguistics, cognitive psychology, computer science, and mathematical logic lead to extensive interactions both in teaching and research.
The Cornell Youth and Work Program improves education and workforce quality through research and development on the design of career opportunity systems. Areas of emphasis include the quality of work-based learning, mentoring at work, and school-to-work system building.
