“My job is to prepare you for solving problems no one knows the answer to,” Mariangela Lisanti, Assistant Professor of Physics, tells her students. Strongly committed to helping students feel welcome in her classroom and her field, she emphasizes their… Continue Reading →
Professor Anne Cheng, Professor Paul Muldoon, and Dr. Rebecca Munson joined a conversation co-hosted by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) on the possibilities for “lab” learning in the Humanities and interpretive Social… Continue Reading →
Compelled by the power of what Toni Morrison calls “cross-genre pollination,” Dr. Nijah Cunningham, Lecturer in the Council of Humanities, African American Studies, and English, and Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, stages interactions among literary texts, theoretical… Continue Reading →
Can creativity be taught? How do we encourage students to solve problems and design solutions creatively? How do we teach them to produce original work? How do we help students understand the importance of creativity to analytic work and critique?… Continue Reading →
On November 30, 2017, the McGraw Center welcomed Florent Masse, Senior Lecturer in French and Italian, as part of our “Profiles in Innovative Teaching” series. A trained actor, Masse teaches theater workshops – co-listed in French and Theater – as… Continue Reading →
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