The shaping of the public sphere is inherently open, created through discourse in time and space. In a time when discourse is challenged, how can we open dialogue and investigate the ephemeral but ...

Discussions are underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held at Penn in 2023. The Musk lectures began in 2009 following an endowment by 1997 College ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

The SIAM Annual Meeting provides a broad view of the state of the art in applied mathematics, computational and data science, and their applications through invited presentations, prize lectures, ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Application characteristics help specifiers choose the best discrete sensor type. Industrial automation systems depend on sensors to detect what is going on with machinery and products for effective ...

Traditional lectures have long been a foundation of higher education, but it can be challenging to keep students engaged with this conventional format. With the modern prevalence of online education ...

A viral video showing students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology clapping for a math professor during his last lecture has social media in a stir, for good reasons, of course. Gilbert ...