Barnard College News

The panel ‘Grey Matter’ brought together experts on teen brain development to empower parents to support their kids during these stressful times.

Barnard College’s “toddler whisperer” and professor of psychology Tovah P. Klein offers expert advice for staying close this Mother's Day while socially distancing.

The “toddler whisperer” breaks down the importance of children at work.

Barnard administrators and faculty offer advice to incoming and departing college students.

A new study in Child Development, co-authored by a Barnard professor and a Barnard alumna, has shown that the development of spatial cognition—how infants and toddlers learn to encounter the world’s wealth of information—is heavily tied to the cultural norms of their caregivers.

Director of Barnard’s Center for Toddler Development appears on CNBC

Economics professor publishes study on why single mothers are happier today than decades ago.

Early childhood researchers weigh in on "Generation iPad"

Hear from Barnard's President on how striving to "have it all" condemns women and their daughters to failure.

Letter to the Editor of The New York Times cites research from Barnard's Center for Toddler Development.

The latest issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online brings together some of the most esteemed scholars whose works tie analyses of reproductive technologies to frameworks for reproductive justice.

"Moona Luna offers a soundtrack for a bilingual childhood," writes The New York Daily News.


In our part of the world, December is a time for ritual and celebration; for Christmas trees and Hanukkah lights, eggnog, carols, and an avalanche of holiday cards. In my house it is also, and primarily, a time of cookies—of Toll House cookies with walnuts for my husband and without them for my older son, of a chocolate-chip loaf for my mother and fat sugar cookies for my younger son, and of Russian teacakes for my daughter, who likes the fact that they come from where she does. Every year, my family chides me for getting so worked up about the baking. “It’s okay,” my mother pledges cheerfully on the phone, “you don’t really need to make so many cookies.” “It’s okay,” my husband promises, as he sees me starting to panic, “we can buy the cookies instead.” But then the lobbying begins, quiet and insistent. Don’t skimp on the Toll House, younger son urges, because last year there weren’t enough. Don’t forget the teacakes, my daughter says, because we have to have something from Russia.