Dr. Emma Adam from the the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University will present a talk titled, ‘Race-related Stress and Academic Attainment: How Discrimination Gets under the Skin and Into the Mind’ at April’s Science Cafe at the Firehouse Grill on April 20th, at 6:30 pm.

This talk will explore new theories and data on how race-related stress “gets under the skin” to affect stress biology, health, cognition and academic performance, including data from a 20-year-long study linking racial discrimination experiences in adolescence to stress biology and academic attainment in adulthood. Factors which protect against the negative effects of discrimination on stress biology, health and achievement are also discussed.

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