Neag professor James C. Kaufman is an internationally recognized expert on how each individual’s creativity can be tapped in a multitude of settings. One of his primary focuses is on breaking down the preconception that creativity belongs only in the arts.
For his doctoral research project, former kinesiology student Evan Johnson wanted to know whether people exercising without a monitor could feel or perceive when their bodies reached a prescribed level, as this method has been suggested as a surrogate for heart rate monitoring in the past. The results surprised him.
Holding her new book Treatment Integrity: A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice in Applied Psychology, Dr. Lisa M. Hagermoser Sanetti was relieved and proud to show off the “exciting” results of a four-year project.
Neag Endowed Professor Suzanne Wilson was one of 14 preeminent international education leaders recently elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd). She is the first Neag faculty member to receive this prestigious honor.
The U.S. News & World Report released its 2015 rankings and the Neag School of Education continues to achieve top-ranking status, ranking #33 in the nation. This ranking puts the Neag School at #24 among all public graduate schools of education in the nation.
While New Year’s may seem like a distant past due to the now busy, shuffling life of the semester, an important part of New Year’s is still relevant. The most common resolutions, involving weight loss or improving fitness, fall slave to the same trend every year, says Neag student, Luke Belval.
A recent report by Neag education researchers on Connecticut’s new System for Educator Evaluation and Development (SEED) has the potential to impact every public school student in the state.
The Coventry Public Schools and the Neag School have joined forces to discover new ways to integrate iPad technology into classroom learning, as well as to use their partnership to plan, implement, and assess both the process and the emerging impacts of this new area of technology integration.
A special section of articles put together by Neag School of Education Educational Psychology Professor James O’Neil (along with Neag alumnus Sara Renzulli and Neag doctoral student Bryce Crasper) is a call to action for more universities to offer courses on “Teaching the Psychology of Men”—an emerging, but often controversial, discipline.
Ethnographer and former professional women’s soccer player Caitlin Davis Fisher recently spoke to UConn’s Neag School of Education Sport Management students about the ability of athletics to promote gender equality.