Education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning. The nation's 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and ...

Historians share surprising stories in the McCauley Lecture Series at the Washington County Free Library in downtown ...

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 ...

When I was young, there was no such thing as the World Wide Web or video streaming. If you wanted to watch something, you had to wait until it appeared on television. Sometimes you might think, "Hey, ...

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II — What Can We Do About It?” for the second in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human ...

This is the fifth episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. This week we’re going back to school. Well, kind of ...

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I — What on Earth Have We Done?” for the first in her two-part Tanner Lecture on ...

Where do society’s assumptions about ideal diets, clothing, lifestyle, and mating choices come from? Marlene Zuk, a professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota, will ...