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No images? Click here  Dear Reader, For centuries, humans have considered courage to be a rare and important virtue. We admire those who demonstrate courage despite their fears and personal risk. In uncertain times, courage enables us to live in a way that honors our values. Aristotle wrote, “You will never do anything in this world without courage.” We invite you to join Greg Crawford, president of Miami University, and Cynthia Pury, professor of psychology at Clemson University, for a webinar examining the virtue of courage. Crawford has been president at Miami University for nearly a decade, and courage is one of six virtues he has posted on his laptop and looks at every day, believing courage is essential for making decisions that will benefit universities and society as a whole. Pury has decades of experience researching courage from different angles, and she published a book in 2010 called The Psychology of Courage. She is interested in why people take courageous actions and what people think about the courage of others. This webinar will discuss all you need to know about courage as a virtue, including how we understand it, the process of building it, whether it can be measured and categorized, and why it is ultimately a worthwhile risk to take.
Greg Crawford, President of Miami University Crawford is the president of Miami University. Crawford began his research career at Xerox PARC and has launched two startup biotechnology companies based on his university research discoveries. He has leveraged his academic role to elevate entrepreneurship education, innovative research, and entrepreneurial startups at Brown University, the University of Notre Dame, and Miami University. He holds 16 U.S. patents and is co-founder of Corum Medical and Myomics. In addition, he has published more than 350 publications and articles. Crawford was recently inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. 
Cynthia Pury, Professor of Psychology at Clemson University Pury is a professor of psychology at Clemson University. She has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has been researching the psychology of courage and related virtues since 2003. Her most notable contribution to psychological understanding of courage is worthwhile risk theory, a conceptual step beyond the traditional psychological understanding of courage as acting despite fear to include taking worthwhile risks and evaluating the actions of oneself or others as courageous. She has consulted with numerous national and international organizations on courage, and her work has been highlighted in multiple major news outlets. She is currently under contract with the American Psychological Association as the editor-in-chief for the forthcoming APA Handbook of Positive Psychology, which has a particular emphasis on virtues. We look forward to seeing you on the 1st. 
Beth Daley 
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