Oct18
CHSS Grad School Series: Considering Grad School?
The Why, How and If
Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
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The Why, How and If
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
ACLS will host a series of informational webinars about the application process for the Sustaining Public Engagement Grant Program starting on Monday, October 18, 2 PM EST. The ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants will support programs based at accredited American colleges and universities devoted to the co-creation of knowledge with diverse communities outside academia that have experienced staffing reductions related to pandemic conditions, programming setbacks, and/or loss of institutional capacity for publicly engaged work.
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Writers Elissa Washuta and Lilly Dancyger search for meaning by parsing the artifacts of their family and cultural lives.
Details »October 19th – Omari Swinton (Howard), “A Comparative Analysis: Examining Black SAT test takers desire to become a STEM Major and the effects of HBCU attendance on Graduation”
“'An Emphatic Refusal to Forget': Empathy and Memory at the National Museum of the American Indian"
Speaker: Wendy Casper, Professor of Management at University of Texas at Arlington
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M. Soledad Caballero, Ari Honarvar, and Jan Beatty imagine how memory can reshape and haunt their current-day lives.
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As high-tech innovation moves at a dizzying rate, our world and society is in danger of spinning off its axis. In The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society, entrepreneur Azeem Azhar presents a call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data, offering a much-needed set of policy solutions to problems like political polarization, ballooning inequality, and unchecked corporate power.
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