A history professor recounts how being indoors during the pandemic led him to rediscover his fondness for video games – and to bring it into the classroom as well.
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This graduate course offers students a rare chance to gain firsthand experience prior to launching their careers and embarking on years of board service.
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.
A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students learn to debunk fake ideas.
Students are provided the opportunity to use America’s national parks as case studies for environmental issues and tough conversations in this course.
Learning to program requires mastering the nitty-gritty of code syntax. Generative AI turns out to be good at that. Adding AI to intro programming courses frees students to focus on problem-solving.
Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
Students learned not just a practical outdoor skill, but how to explain what they were learning to curious observers.
A journalism professor discovers that some of the best lessons for future journalists can be taught on a pool table.
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
This course beckons students to examine how alcoholic beverages are portrayed in books by American authors.
Spanning evolutionary biology, genetics, development, neurobiology, endocrinology and psychology, as well as current events and sports, students explore the complexities of the biology of sex.
Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
In an engineering course at UC Davis, students learn all the nuances that go into brewing ‘a truly excellent cup of coffee.’
Art and science may seem like opposites, but throughout history the disciplines have fed off each other − and still do today.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
Writing about same-sex relationships and gender beyond a strict male-female binary was more common in ancient Greece and Rome than students assume, a scholar writes.
A former fencer who fell in love with the samurai sword explains how learning to wield the weapon can help people stave off trouble in other areas of life.
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Director of Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of English, John Carroll University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
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Assistant Professor of the Practice in Religion and History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, State University of New York Cortland
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Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Bowdoin College
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Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University