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The Promise and Challenges of AI in Higher Ed

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Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET Preparing Faculty to work with AI The University of Mississippi is pioneering new approaches to prepare faculty for emerging technologies, like generative AI, in the classroom. Faculty at dozens of other institutions have been granted access to the course through course licenses and scholarships.

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Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Dies at 67

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in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Commerce. "Dr. Whether in government or academia, she devoted her career to reducing inequality and increasing opportunities for others, and made everyone around her better." She held a Ph.D. UWM recently named the Rebecca M.

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Intrigued by Bats

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He is now an assistant professor in the department of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology at The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus. He envisioned a career working at a pet store or with the state wildlife department. “It’s one of my earliest memories, seeing a bat hanging somewhere and wanting to touch it.”

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Pride in the Halls

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Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

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In a career that has included both academia and the private sector, Dr. Teik C. Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. He had a big influence on me because he had an interest in things scientific and technological,” Jackson said. “I Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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STEM innovation in constrained economic times – the UK in an international context by Professor Ian Walmsley, Provost of Imperial College

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The PM has delivered changes to the way government works, with for example the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. We must invest in research and technology if the country wants to attract global talent and compete internationally. Yet the UK has a problem in innovation, decades in the making.

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