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Dean Rick Ginsberg delivers the Fall 2025 update
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KU Counseling Psychology marks 70 years with 2025 Lichtenberg Lecture featuring Rod Goodyear
The University of Kansas will celebrate a milestone this fall: the 70th anniversary of its Counseling Psychology Program, highlighted by the 2025 Lichtenberg Lecture featuring renowned scholar Rod Goodyear...
Fall 2025 Dean’s Message: Highlights and Updates from KU SOEHS
In this semesterly update, Dean Rick Ginsberg shares the latest news, accomplishments, and initiatives from across the School. The video highlights ...
Dr. Imogen Herrick Featured on KCUR for Innovative Climate Change Education
The School of Education and Human Sciences proudly recognizes Dr. Imogen Herrick, assistant professor of STEM education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, who was recently featured...
The 2025 Lelon Capps Lecture Series Featuring Dr. Rick Hudson
The 2025 Lelon Capps Lecture Series, held Monday, October 6, in Joseph R. Pearson Hall and via Zoom. This year’s featured lecturer, Dr. Rick Hudson, Professor of Mathematic ...
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New book delves into bigotry in critical, nonpartisan manner seeking to analyze how hate is taught
"On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It," a new book by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell of the University of Kansas, takes a critical, nonpartisan look at bigotry to help readers better understand it. Mitchell writes that bigotry is taught, and, as an education scholar, believes anything that is taught has curriculum that can be analyzed.
University of Kansas announces spring 2025 honor roll
Nearly 8,700 undergraduate students at the University of Kansas earned honor roll distinction for the spring 2025 semester.
KU researchers develop, validate tool to identify strengths in students as young as preschool
The tool can help identify strengths in very young students and allow parents, teachers and others to start building on them from an early point in their lives and education. Previous strengths research had focused on older students and adults.
Study finds pitchers have thicker UCLs in elbows than other baseball players, factors that risk common injury
A University of Kansas study measured the thickness of the UCL in throwing and nonthrowing elbows of both pitchers and position players of a college baseball team. The study can showed arm slot is not correlated with UCL thickness, contradicting a common belief of throw angle contributing to the common injury.
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