Boudewyn van Oort, an engineer whose career has spanned several decades, reflects on how his humanities education has been instrumental in his success. “Understanding the context in which technology exists,…
It baffles me to hear parents tell their kids that art is a hobby, not a career; that you can’t make good money with a degree in English. Wasn’t it just yesterday evening that these same adults binged…
What are the multiple professions that bring the company Disney To Life today? Business As Usual When thinking of giant corporations that seem to shape the world today, what companies come to mind? Is it Amazon? Apple? Perhaps…
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“WASHINGTON — An emerging body of evidence suggests that integrating STEMM fields (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) with the humanities and arts in higher education is associated with…
FLINT, Mich. — The play was written in 1882, originally set in a small town in Norway — about as removed as imaginable from the daily struggles of this Michigan…
“Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are both known for their seemingly mystical power to distort reality. What gives them this ability isn’t a quirk of a charismatic leader; it’s a…
As I begin my second trip to Southeast Asia, after spending a year living in upstate NY—surrounded by mountains and trees—arriving in Bangkok was extremely discouraging to an environmentalist. Bangkok, Thailand has developed rapidly with little efforts towards…
We can learn from the humanities, which develop original thinking skills much earlier. Creative domains from writing to the arts emphasize the “doing” and “creating” components, rather than just absorbing…
The planet is becoming more urban every day. Yet scholars in two academic domains that have lots to say about city life, humanities departments and architecture schools, rarely talk to…
In an article titled “Embedding the Humanities in Engineering” Erik Fisher and Roop Mahajan, a humanist and an engineer by trade, developed what they called “interdisciplinary trading zones” through which they sought to integrate the divergent perspectives [and]…
