DELTA CENTER
Updated 26 days ago
109 S. Lindquist Center Iowa City, Iowa 52242
The DeLTA Center is an interdisciplinary research community transforming conventional conceptions of development and learning by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers, by training the next generation of collaborative scientists, and by actively engaging with community partners. DeLTA Center members recognize that the processes of development and learning are fundamentally complex. These processes live at multiple levels -- from neurons to neighborhoods -- with reciprocal interactions at all levels. And these processes play out over multiple time scales, from the millisecond unfolding of action potentials in the brain to the time scale of behavior over days, months, and years. By embracing the complexity of the developmental system, the DeLTA Center contributes to a broader intellectual movement that advances a fresh vision of how science should approach the study of "change."... Our mission is to address key challenges facing health and education in..