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Germine Awad: How Trump’s Comments May Actually Help Race Relations in the U.S.
Aug. 18, 2017
President Donald Trump’s slowness to condemn the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and then subsequent comments where he stated there was blame on both sides, produced outrage—and rightly so.

Alumna Jackie Caemmerer Selected for John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology
Aug. 14, 2017
Caemmerer was selected for her research paper title Beyond Individual Tests: A Cross-Battery IQ Model

Kevin Cokley: On Race, America Cannot Look to Trump For Moral Leadership
Aug. 14, 2017
Educational Psychology Professor Cokley discusses Trump's response to Charlottesville protests

Kevin Cokley: Australian woman's death reveals the human toll of a police shooting
Jul. 26, 2017
The death of Justine Damond is another tragic incident in what seems to be a never-ending cycle of senseless, fatal police shootings in the United States.

Germine Awad: How Disney Blew a Huge Opportunity While Casting Aladdin
Jul. 21, 2017
Disney's casting of Naomi Scott to play Princess Jasmine missed an opportunity to supportively portray middle eastern women in Hollywood.

McCarthy and Lambert: How Teachers See Stress
Jun. 07, 2017

Chester and Rochlen: A Cutting-Edge Way for LGBTQ to “Come Out”
May. 19, 2017

Educational Psychology Students Earn APA Fellowships
May. 08, 2017
Three Educational Psychology master’s students, Patricia Kottaridis, Amy Blum, and Komal Sawani, received fellowships totaling $18,000 from the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Minority Fellowship Program. The Minority Fellowship Program is a federally funded training program for ethnic and racial minority researchers and…

Chris McCarthy: Political Climate as a Political Stressor
Apr. 21, 2017

Kevin Cokley: Race Relations in Texas Still a Work in Progress
Apr. 10, 2017