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With college students less likely to read through a full textbook than they once were, video games can help keep them engaged.
For 50 years, St. Francis Inn in Philadelphia has served the poorest and most vulnerable people in Kensington.
Watching, modeling and even playing winter sports help students internalize physics concepts, including acceleration, momentum and friction.
While wealth and power can go a long way in fighting a criminal conviction, sometimes these factors fall short.
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
Women still face discrimination and underrepresentation in STEM fields; receiving mentoring and tools to navigate male-dominated fields can help them succeed.
Music brings spiritual realms into the world of human senses.
An engineering professor teaches students to harness AI’s flaws for creative expression.
Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students look closely at what anime is saying about life.
As video games such as ‘Black Myth: Wukong,’ with strong religious themes, gain popularity, a course uses the interactive experience to teach students about the role of religion.
This hospitality course bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world skills.
Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.
Marvel movies like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Infinity War’ are the starting point for this ethics seminar.
In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.
Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models can help nonprogrammers skip the difficult details.
Control systems keep your house warm and your car’s speed constant, but they could also help address societal problems.
Though paranormal theories are at odds with modern science, adherents have often tried to prove their beliefs with sciencelike methods.
Students learn skills to help them distinguish fact from fiction in the world of AI.
Israel’s divided education system – based on nationality and religious observance – serves as a test case for exploring controversial education policies in America.
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Director of Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of English, John Carroll University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
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Assistant Professor of the Practice in Religion and History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Assistant Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, State University of New York Cortland
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Professor of Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Bowdoin College
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Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University