A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work in a very different context – a basketball court.
As society ponders the dangers and unknowns of AI, Liz Karns is giving statistics students a first-hand look at the potential implications for users of large-scale predictive models, in hopes of increasing their empathy and awareness of unintended consequences.
In the new performance work “Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” director Beth Frances Milles ’88, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, investigates the poignancies of memory.
Bolstering its commitment to broader engagement, the College of Arts and Sciences has established the Winokur Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics with mathematician Steven Strogatz as the inaugural holder of the chair.
Diabate hopes her book will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.
In the Society for the Humanities podcast, two undergraduate researchers share information they uncovered about the fraught legacy of nineteenth century historian Goldwin Smith.