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Space is limited to 100 attendees. REGISTRATION REQUIRED! In Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want, Marc Brackett, Ph.D. (FAN ’19), […]

We all spend an absurd amount of energy trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts, we often fail. But what […]

Everything we do today is recorded as data that’s sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made government agencies more […]

How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential […]

Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every […]

Attending college has long been a rite of passage for millions of teens and a bedrock of the American dream. But that well-worn path has lately […]

If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force […]

Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m trying to make it work,” and thought, “That sounds like a great idea”? Probably not. Because the thing about […]

In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig, Ph.D., moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there […]

An Olympic athlete. An award-winning novelist. A successful entrepreneur. All raised under one roof. What can we learn from those families whose children aim high and […]