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The College of Liberal Arts is the largest school at the university. We offer more than 55 majors through 20 academic departments and two-dozen centers and institutes. And we’re committed to the idea that understanding history, society and culture helps students better understand — and, ultimately, thrive in — the world beyond campus.

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Psychology Student Selected by Teach for America

Psychology senior Jimmy Hammond is one of the three 2009 Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate School Interns, who have been accepted into Teach For America, a national initiative that aims to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation's most promising future leaders in the effort. They were selected from more than 30,000 applicants and will join the 2010 corps members teaching in 35 regions across the country.

Sleep Loss Negatively Affects Split-Second Decisions

According to new research by psychologists Todd Maddox and David Schnyer, sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived state. Read more about their study.

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