Archie and Mary-Louise Silver Child Development Center (SCDC)

The Center for Infant & Child Development was founded in 1997 at the University of South Florida as a center of excellence in developmental neuroscience, and was originally housed on the third floor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine.

• Robert A. Silver Endowment for Neurodevelopment
• Archie Silver named Co-Director with Stan Graven
• Anthony Reading named Center Administrator
  1998 - Space Designated by Dean Silbiger for the Center
  1999 - Type III Center Approval
• First dedication ceremonies Higgins Hall
  2000 - $2,500,000 Legislative Grant for construction
  2001 - Sponsored Research surpasses $800,000
  2002 - Center transferred by Dean Daugherty to the Department of Psychiatry
  
• Center build out begins
• Name changed to Child Development Center
• Dr. Silver named sole Director of Center
  2003 - Dr. Fernandez named Interim Director
• Angel Jenkins named Center Administrator
• Funding exceeds $1,000,000
• Laboratory and clinical programs are centralized
• Nationwide search for new Center Director
  2004 - Services begin in the newly built center
  2005 - Dr. Myers named Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Robert A. Silver Chair for Research in Child Psychiatry

Archie and Mary Louise Silver generously provided funds to the University of South Florida to establish the Robert A. Silver Chair in Developmental Neurobiology in 1997 in memory of their deceased younger son. Additional donors to this Chair included David and Ann Murphey though the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay and the William Stamps Farish Fund through Cornelia Corbett, and Sam and Geri Rashid. After a National search, in September 2007, Dr. Jun Tan, a USF Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, was appointed as the first Robert A. Silver Chair, and currently holds this position.

More Information

Website: http://health.usf.edu/medicine/psychiatry/silvercdc/