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Art Transforming Communities
Last year I co-developed and co-led a course titled “Street Smarts: The Future of Urban Living” with two fellow Union College students….
Engineering & Urban Studies
New Report Urges Integration of STEMM and the Arts and Humanities
“WASHINGTON — An emerging body of evidence suggests that integrating STEMM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine)…
Business & Entrepreneurship
Business and the Humanities: Moving Into the Future in Partnership
“Interdisciplinary alliances have come to comprise a fast-growing trend for entrepreneurial humanities departments. McMaster already offers a specialized minor…
Science & Mathematics
Humanizing Science: Rebecca Kamen Awakens Scientific Discovery Through the Arts and Humanities
This is the seventh of a series of interviews with extraordinary people who are using their skills and training…
Science & Mathematics
Communication Competence For Effective Leadership in STEM
In a time where each job posting has hundreds of applicants and success as a job seeker is heavily…
Engineering & Urban Studies
Literature’s Power to Effect Social Justice Today – The Case of Flint
FLINT, Mich. — The play was written in 1882, originally set in a small town in Norway — about…
Jobs and the Arts & Humanities
The Rising Opportunities of a Career in Writing
Despite declining numbers for arts and humanities majors, jobs for writers (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics site) are still growing at…
Business & Entrepreneurship
Why Climate Change Needs English Majors
“In apparently the first course of its kind, UCSB is offering a class in the English department entitled, The…
Governance & the World of Politics
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
In his book Excellent Sheep, William Deresiewicz questions the way in which today’s generation, and the world at large, thinks of the…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table