Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...
Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago have established a new Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series in an effort to increase the visibility of Native American and Indigenous ...
Asking students to take lecture notes using pen and paper gives them a “deeper cognitive understanding” of what they are studying, a researcher has found. For the study, published in Teaching in ...
The University Writing Program's "Prized Writing" contains work from students across campus. The cover was created by Kristen Shih, a fourth-year design and cinema and digital media double major.&nbsp ...
Bates presents lecturers offering insight into mathematics and medical technology on Feb. 26 and 28. Leila Schneps, a mathematician specializing in number theory (and moonlighting as a murder-mystery ...
Like many creative-writing instructors, for most of my teaching career I’ve led classes based on the workshop model: a student brings in a draft, and we talk about how to make it better. When ...
In an effort to open creative writing courses to more undergraduates, the English Department hopes to expand course offerings as early as fall 2013. Following a formal review of the creative writing ...
encouraging the habit of writing about important concepts and finding our what you know and understand. During a lecture, it can be helpful for students to try to recap what they are hearing and to ...
Oregon State University's annual Horning Lecture Series, which brings to campus some of the most distinguished scholars in fields blending science and the humanities, will focus this year on the ...