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UT Austin professor alleges threats over conversative views

Inside Higher Ed

At the event, Atlas, a former COVID-19 adviser to President Trump, “falsely told a small crowd that COVID-19 vaccines present serious safety concerns and advocated against inoculating children,” the paper reported. ” Lowery is also a senior fellow at the business school’s Salem Center for Policy.

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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

Inside Higher Ed

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. “My mom became a registered nurse and my dad a civil engineer. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Gay will officially assume the position next summer. She earned her Ph.D.

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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We asked him how the college-to-careers pillar might have drawn on the unique vantage point of his software engineering background. Very similar to software engineering.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

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This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. One of the ways for students to initiate positive thinking is to find positive meaning in the events in their life through daily practice. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class. References Bresciani Ludvik, M.

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AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails

Inside Higher Ed

Then, a day later, and in an apparent effort not to be left out of the AI–chat bot party, Microsoft launched its AI-powered Bing search engine. Hollis Robbins, dean of the University of Utah’s College of Humanities, shares similar concerns. The company’s stock sank after a series of product missteps.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. One of the ways for students to initiate positive thinking is to find positive meaning in the events in their life through daily practice. Use the Innovation Engine to teach a concept within your class. References Bresciani Ludvik, M.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley. For this work, Cerf and Kahn won the Turing Award—the so-called Nobel of computing.