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Mellon Puts Humanities in Close Touch With Urban Studies
The planet is becoming more urban every day. Yet scholars in two academic domains that have lots to say about…
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Literature and the Arts
On December 2, a ballerina, a surgeon, a music professor, a robotics scientist and an entrepreneur sat down together at…
Are you encouraging your child to choose a major that will pay a high salary?
If so, think beyond the moment they step off of campus; think beyond the first job and beyond the first…
Disconnect Between Public Discourse and Employer Needs
There seems to be a disconnect between public discourse and employer needs related to the arts and humanities in the…
UK: New Study Abroad Programme Makes Languages an EU Priority
The Erasmus+ programme will provide grants for more than four million people across the EU to study or train abroad….
S#!%…I mean, Shift Happens
How current do you think you are? Do you think that what you know of as normal was always so?…
Do Small Businesses Need to be Multilingual?
“Research from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages concludes that “globalization is driving the demand for a…
“Activating” Science, Technology or Engineering through the Humanities
A marketing executive turned venture capitalist, prolific author and frequent public speaker, Geoffrey Moore has fully leveraged the communication and…
America is Raising a Generation of Kids Who Can’t Think or Write Clearly
A 2010 study from Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa found that students majoring in liberal arts fields see “significantly higher…
Book: Humanism in Business
What is the purpose of our economic system? What would a more life-serving economy look like? There are many books…
Dis/Connection and Mis/Guidance
In a recent piece in the Harvard Business Review titled “Want Innovative Thinking?: Hire from the Humanities” a student commenter…
Economic Truths
A global citizen will work to create value for all parties involved in a business transaction, rather than seeking to…
The Leaders of Silicon Valley
It’s commonly believed that engineers dominate Silicon Valley and that there is a correlation between the capacity for innovation and…
Why Engineers need the Arts & Humanities
In an article titled “Embedding the Humanities in Engineering” Erik Fisher and Roop Mahajan, a humanist and an engineer by…
The Art and Science of Growing Snowflakes in a Lab
The formation of snowflakesâessentially, the idiosyncratic way that water crystallizes when suspended in our atmosphereâis an extremely complex process that…
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