SUNY Poly professor of psychology Dr. V.K. Kool has received his third Fulbright award, and the second as a Fulbright Specialist, to deliver a  series of lectures to faculty and postgraduate students at Mahatma Gandhi University in India.

The Indian American’s Fulbright-winning proposal was about writing a book on Gandhi and modern psychology to highlight the psychological aspects of Gandhi’s life and work, with plans to publish it on Gandhi’s 150^th birthday – Oct. 2, 2019 .

In the proposal, Kool emphasized that after the Pulitzer Prize winning book “Gandhi’s Truth” was published in 1969, not much work has been done in psychology, such as the significance of self-control, a relatively new concept in the current neuro-social psychology, Kool said, as a tool in that Gandhian movement.

Kool was also invited to present his keynote speech, “The Art and Science of Self-Control and Yoga,” at the inauguration of the university’s Yoga Center on Jan. 12, 2016.

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