Implementation of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan
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This fall, Silas Johnson and Tabea Alexa Linhard were among 24 Arts & Sciences faculty to pilot the new Literacies for Life and Career initiative. The initiative aims to foreground key skills for students while helping faculty to more intentionally highlight them in courses.
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Center for the Literary Arts co-directors Danielle Dutton and Ignacio Infante appeared on the November 20 episode of The American Vandal podcast to discuss the mission and work of CLA. Produced by the Center for Mark Twain Studies and hosted by Washington University alum Matt Seybold, the podcast featured Dutton and Infante as part of its "Criticism LTD" series.
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Learn more about the Literacies for Life and Career initiative and how to become an early adopter to pilot the literacy-based approach in your courses. The call for applications for Teaching Innovation Grants is open through February 2, 2024.
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| This six-session course will provide participants with a basic foundation in the Python programming language that can be built upon through more specialized courses. Python is a highly user-friendly programming language, making it particularly suitable for beginner programmers.
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Public scholarship can sound exciting—but it can also be intimidating. How does one start? This workshop will cover the basics of public scholarship, such as identifying venues and audiences, understanding how to pitch, working with editors, meeting deadlines, and more.
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Featuring speakers Elizabeth F.S. Roberts (University of Michigan) and Martha María Téllez Rojo (Center for Nutrition and Health Research at the National Institute of Public Health). In this talk, an epidemiologist (Téllez-Rojo) and a medical anthropologist (Roberts) reflect on a decade of collaboratively "making better numbers" about environmental health in Mexico City.
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How can narratives—visual, textual, and oral—bridge divides between migrants and the communities in which they settle? Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives brings together the work of local and national artists who craft narratives of migration, and holds space for migrants and those affected by migration to tell their stories. Presented by Moving Stories, a programmatic grant of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures.
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This workshop will take participants through the basics of summarizing a short-form idea (such as a book review essay, an interview, or a think-piece), identifying a target venue, and pitching or submitting the piece. Follow-up consultations will be available to participants.
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TRIADS and the Race, Technology, Equity, and Justice initiative are organizing a social gathering. The aim is to bring together faculty members conducting research at the crossroads of technology, equity, and justice at Washington University and beyond. The event seeks to cultivate connections among faculty members who share research interests within the field.
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