Upcoming Events

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

  • December 4-5, 2026: FYS Wonderfest First-Year Seminar and Undergraduate Research & Creativity invite the campus to the MSU for students to share their ideas and “remix” projects developed during their fall FYSM courses.
  • 11 a.m. Thursdays throughout Spring 2026: UGRC Student Research Workshop Series held in 287 Old Main.
  • Academic Year 2025-2026: Faculty and Staff Neurodiversity Book Group/Learning Circle: The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work by Ludmila N. Praslova, PhD.
  • March 30, 2026: 11:30 a.m. (MSU 218A): KU Welcomes Tara McMullin, author of What Works, podcaster, and critic who studies emerging forms of work in the 21st-century economy. McMullin will be presenting Expanding Empathic Bandwidth: Speculative Fiction and the Double Empathy Problem.
    In this workshop, McMullin asks: How can we imagine minds that work differently from our own? Contrary to popular belief, neurodivergent people do this every day, navigating a social world that is constructed on neurotypical scripts and assumptions, taking on the burden of bridging the gap between themselves and others. Neurotypical people, by contrast, often simply lack the access to neurodivergent interiority that would make doing more of that work possible. Drawing on pop culture, critical autism studies, and personal experience, autistic writer and critic Tara McMullin makes the case that speculative fiction offers a window into not-so-alien minds, inviting audiences not only to connect with neurodivergent-coded characters but also to navigate the world through their perspective. Speculative fiction—and any authentic representation of neurodivergence on the page or screen—becomes essential to expanding our empathic bandwidth.
  • May 2026: CUREs Faculty Institute

PAST EVENTS: 

  • 11 a.m. Thursdays throughout Spring 2025: UGRC Student Research Workshop Series held in 287 Old Main.
  • Spring 2025: Faculty and Staff Neurodiversity Book Group/Learning Circle: 
    Featuring upcoming speaker Eric M. Garcia’s book We’re Not Broken (Details TBD) 
  • April 10, 2025: 4:30-6 p.m.: Join us for a Taste of Inclusion, sponsored by the Commission of Human Diversity, in the Boehm Lobby, for a time of refreshments, networking, and thought-provoking discussion before hearing our guest speaker, Eric M. Garcia. Please RSVP for this event (for food counts). 
  • April 10, 2025, at 6 p.m. (Boehm 145): We’re Not Broken author Eric M. Garcia to present on “Autism, Accommodation, and Academica: An Unrequited Love Triangle.” Followed by book signing and reception. Free to faculty, staff, and students. Register today!  
  • Summer 2025: AAC&U High-Impact Practice Institute (Details TBD) 
  • May 2025: CURES (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience) Training Submit your application now! 

To view previous Title III Grant events, please visit the Archived Title III Grant Events webpage.