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KU program puts technology, expert training, new teaching in classrooms

LAWRENCE ??? Since 2003, Technology Rich Classrooms, a project of Advance Learning Technologies in Education in KU???s Center for Research on Learning, has been managing a Kansas State Department of Education program that provides funding to school districts across the state to purchase new technology and fund a facilitator in the school who coaches teachers how to make the new devices part of higher order curriculum. Nearly 90 Kansas schools have received the two-year, Title IID grants, and the program is spreading beyond Kansas??? borders.

Lecture with KU researcher to offer strategies to alleviate depression

LAWRENCE ??? A University of Kansas professor who has developed a depression treatment based on lifestyle changes will share his research in a lecture called ???Banish the Blues??? on Thursday, Feb. 23, at Douglas County Senior Services in downtown Lawrence.

KU accepting nominations for 2013 honorary degrees

LAWRENCE ??? The University of Kansas is now accepting nominations for honorary degrees to be awarded in May 2013.