The Children at-Risk Research Group is an outgrowth of a hiring initiative in 2006-2008 that brought five new faculty members to the Departments of Psychology and Sociology. The group is comprised of researchers with interests in cognitive development, emotional development, social development, mental and physical health, trauma, substance abuse, and education. The core faculty has backgrounds in clinical psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, social psychology, educational sociology, medical sociology, social inequalities, and criminology. Group members share a commitment to basic research and theory development, and to the translation of theory and findings to real world settings.