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Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Event


1/15/2025

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Conference Rooms A & B - Hinson Campus Center


Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Event
The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event will take place in Conference Rooms A&B on Wednesday, Jan. 15, from noon-1:30 p.m. Kenneth Wesson, Ph.D., an educational consultant in neuroscience, will be the keynote speaker.

Wesson is a former higher education faculty member and administrator.He delivers keynote addresses on the neuroscience of learning for educational organizations and institutions throughout the United States and overseas.

Wesson regularly addresses educational organizations, counseling associations, school districts and parenting organizations on the subject of "brain-considerate" learning environments. In addition to his speeches on the neuroscience of learning, Wesson speaks on the subjects of early brain development, design and engineering, STEM and STREAM, social-emotional learning and curriculum development. He is an active member of Scientists without Borders and has been featured on PBS specials on human learning and the teenage brain. In 2017, Wesson was nominated to receive the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award.

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