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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

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Let’s embark on an imaginative journey to the year 2100, where the boundaries of humanity extend to Mars. Space scientists and engineers collaborate on spacecraft design, propulsion, and landing systems, recognizing the synergy essential for safe human transport. 2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012).

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We graduate the very highest number of Black engineers, Black women engineers, Black agriculturists,” says Smith-Jackson. The nurturing she received as a student motivated her to pursue a career in science and fueled her desire to return to the university in 2007 and give the same to students.

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Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marr, for one, is a civil and environmental engineer with a specific focus on air quality, airborne pathogens, atmospheric science, and public health. Since joining the field in about 2007, I felt that there are certain aspects of the world and its problems that were largely neglected.

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Fall books from university presses on digital life

Inside Higher Ed

Johns Hopkins University Press, November ), while Gerd Gigerenzer reassures humanity of its nonobsolescence with How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms ( MIT Press, August ). The age of intelligent machines is far enough along that now they, too, can groan at the time/banana conundrum.

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Moving Teaching Forward, Post-Pandemic

Inside Higher Ed

The first was the Great Recession, the financial crisis that began in December 2007. Of course, the most important outgrowth of the financial crisis was to accelerate the shift away from traditional humanities fields toward STEM fields. Alongside the analytics revolution cam a series of other ed-tech innovations.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

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Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) – Written evidence (12 January 2016). As noted in many of these documents, the indirect impacts of human mobility to the UK, and EU research support, are plentiful too. University Alliance – Written evidence (4 December 2015). Vote Leave – Written evidence (4 December 2015).