Panayiota (Pani) Kendeou, Guy Bond Chair in Reading and professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s psychological foundations of education program, recently gave an invited talk at the Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI) Speaker Series at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The series features leaders in the field across the nation who are invited to visit LSRI to share their research and visions. Kendeou presented her research on reducing the impact of misconceptions and misinformation about vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and met with faculty and students at LSRI.

Learn more about Kendeou’s research:

• Kendeou gives keynote on debunking misconceptions at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
• Kendeou gives talks on reading comprehension at University of Padova, Italy
• Kendeou gives plenary at SciX on science of debunking misconceptions
• Kendeou presents at symposium on reducing impact of misinformation, fake news
• CEHD Connect Article: Debunking misinformation around autism
• Global Signature researchers present on misinformation surrounding ASD

For more on Kendeou’s research related to language and memory, visit her Reading + Language Lab site.