Video PUP Speaks: Rachel Gable on The Hidden Curriculum October 11, 2021 Are universities designed to trip up those individuals they should most be trying to include? Rachel Gable, PUP Speaks speaker and author of聽The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities, presents the results of her investigation into the difficulties first generation students must overcome to succeed. Read More
Video Hosts and Guests: Readings by poet Nate Klug October 07, 2021 Nate Klug has been hailed by the聽Threepenny Review聽as a poet who is 鈥渁n original in Eliot鈥檚 sense of the word.鈥� In聽Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. Read More
Video Not Meant as Poems October 05, 2021 Rain in Plural聽is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by聽The Rumpus聽as 鈥渁 master of musicality and enlightening allusions.鈥� Read More
Video Jemma Wadham on Ice Rivers September 15, 2021 In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a searing personal account of glaciers and the rapidly unfolding crisis that they鈥攁nd we鈥攆ace. Read More
Interview Anne-Marie Slaughter on Renewal September 07, 2021 Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history.聽Renewal聽is Anne-Marie Slaughter鈥檚 candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future. Read More
Essay Jaws, lost sharks, and the legacy of Peter Benchley July 13, 2021 Jaws, the mere mention of the movie conjures up images of a large triangular fin cutting through the water, beneath it a large fearsome-looking toothy shark swimming with a sense of authority, a purpose. Read More
Video Things Fall Together book trailer June 22, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today鈥檚 researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Video Visualizing Dunhuang: A look inside the nine鈥憊olume set June 01, 2021 We invite you to take a look inside this stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern China. Read More
Video How the giving habits of the super鈥憆ich affect the rest of us May 16, 2021 It鈥檚 the time of year when our personal finances come to the forefront, but not many Americans are aware that the spending and giving habits of the super-rich are having a direct impact on public provision and policy. Read More
Video Turkish Kaleidoscope book trailer April 21, 2021 Turkish Kaleidoscope聽is a聽powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey鈥檚 descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict. Read More
Video After Callimachus Readings by Stephanie Burt April 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
Video A cordial invitation to explore the science and history of flavor April 13, 2021 Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Read More
Video Breaking the Social Media Prism April 01, 2021 Breaking the Social Media Prism is a revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online鈥攁nd how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media. Read More
Video Abloh-isms: Essential quotations from the renowned fashion designer, DJ, and stylist March 15, 2021 Abloh-isms聽is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer,聽DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who has established himself as a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture and art. Read More
Video The neuroscientific excitement of ordinary moments February 25, 2021 We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips 鈥渟pikes.鈥� Read More
