Higher Education Re-Imagined Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Higher Education Re-Imagined Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/35-2/ 32 32 Lessons from the Olin College Experiment https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-olin-college-experiment/ https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-olin-college-experiment/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:00:56 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17531 Higher education is notoriously hard to change.
Despite the fact that the world into which students are graduating has altered
radically, and continues to change at an ever-increasing rate, higher learning
remains… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lessons-from-the-olin-college-experiment/feed/ 0 Philosopher’s Corner: The Hidden Life of Science & Technology https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-the-hidden-life-of-science-technology/ https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-the-hidden-life-of-science-technology/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:00:50 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17501 In The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America (2018), the sociologist Robert Wuthnow describes the results of
eight years spent interviewing rural Americans about politics and culture.
Wuthnow finds “a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-the-hidden-life-of-science-technology/feed/ 0 Challenging US Research Universities and Funders to Increase Diversity in the Research Community https://issues.org/challenging-us-research-universities/ https://issues.org/challenging-us-research-universities/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:00:21 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17529 Last March, we traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a first round game in the 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. On tap that evening was a game between No. 1 seed University… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/challenging-us-research-universities/feed/ 0 Whither Neuroscience? https://issues.org/whither-neuroscience/ https://issues.org/whither-neuroscience/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:00:41 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17509 More than a century since Santiago Ramón y
Cajal’s exquisite
renderings detailing the intricate cellular circuity of the brain
stimulated new ways of relating brain structure with brain function, how much
has… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/whither-neuroscience/feed/ 0 Securing the Future of the US Biomedical Research Workforce https://issues.org/securing-the-future-of-the-us-biomedical-research-workforce/ https://issues.org/securing-the-future-of-the-us-biomedical-research-workforce/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:00:24 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17519 Since the end of World War II, the United
States’ preeminence in biomedical research has been widely recognized. There
are a number of features of the US system that are responsible for… Read More

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has been written—including in this
edition of Issues—about the STEM
workforce needs of the future, both in the United States and globally. As the
needs of modern business and industry… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/minority-serving-institutions/feed/ 0 Mathematizing the World https://issues.org/mathematizing-the-world/ https://issues.org/mathematizing-the-world/#respond Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:00:58 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17512 The American engineering theorist Claude
Shannon has largely been written out of popular history, despite developing the
mathematical foundations of communication, data compression, digital computers,
cryptography, circuit complexity, and networking, as well… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/mathematizing-the-world/feed/ 0 The Scientific Foundation for Assessing the Nuclear Performance of Weapons in the US Stockpile Is Eroding https://issues.org/the-scientific-foundation/ https://issues.org/the-scientific-foundation/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:30:38 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17497 Current worldwide geopolitical developments—including
questionable Russian pronouncements pertaining to nuclear weapons, concerns
about nuclear proliferation in a volatile Middle East, tension between the
strategic interests of nuclear-capable China, and the security interests… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-scientific-foundation/feed/ 0 New Policies Needed to Advance Space Mining https://issues.org/new-policies-needed-to-advance-space-mining/ https://issues.org/new-policies-needed-to-advance-space-mining/#respond Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:00:20 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17499 Space has long captured the human
imagination—as a source of wonder, a place of discovery, a realm for
aspirations. But increasingly, space is viewed as a frontier of economic
opportunity as scientists,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/new-policies-needed-to-advance-space-mining/feed/ 0 The World Needs Students With Interdisciplinary Education https://issues.org/the-world-needs-students-with-interdisciplinary-education/ https://issues.org/the-world-needs-students-with-interdisciplinary-education/#respond Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:30:45 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17525 Students at
Syracuse University are developing a deep understanding of neurobiology through
the process of writing haiku. At DePauw University, students are learning about
biochemistry by creating sculptures based on protein-folding research.… Read More

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