The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), at the Waisman Center, UW-Madison was recently awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue building mindfulness research in education.
CIHM is partnering with the Madison Metropolitan School District to bring the practice of mindfulness into classrooms to help students improve their academic performance, nurture their emotional well-being, and bolster their behavior.
Learn more about the pilot study with fifth grade students and teachers.
You might also want to check out the August issue of Mindful magazine. We talk to CIHM’s chair, renowned neuroscientist Richie Davidson, about how his research on how we can change our brains for the better has such huge—and promising—implications.You can take a peek with the digital sampler below.
Right now at the CIHM, more than 20 studies on meditation, compassion, and physical health and illness are taking place. Learn more about CIHM current projects.
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