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Center board member Adriana Galván has been named UCLA’s dean of undergraduate education. In addition to serving on the Center’s Leadership Team and National Scientific Council, Professor Galván is a professor of psychology, holds the Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience, and is director of the Developmental Neuroscience Lab at UCLA. Congratulations, Adriana!

“[Adolescents] have a natural affinity for learning about not just their peers and those strong friendships, but about ‘me’ in relationship to others,” says Dr. Ron Dahl, the Center’s Founding Director, in this article for The Atlantic about what it means for young people to miss their friends for so long.