#undergraduates — Public Fediverse posts

Working with #undergraduates was the best part of my final three years at #NASA. Young people have rich ideas, it's up to us to engage them.

via #RebeccaSolnit on FB, excerpting from Andy Black:

"Here's a counter to the piece I shared about #students not being able to stay focused on long complex pieces of #reading (and while blaming the young is a very popular habit going back #generations and centuries, ..."

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CecSncbuh/

#education #academia #literacy #youngpeople #teaching

Excerpt from #ChronicleOfHigherEd

Here Come the Student #AIResisters

By Len Gutkin

" 'The use of #AI,' #PopeLeoXIV writes in an encyclical 'on safeguarding the human person in the time of #ArtificialIntelligence,' issued earlier this month, 'is never a purely technical matter: When it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status, and freedom.' The pope wants to 'disarm' the new technology — which, for him, means 'preventing it from dominating humanity.'

"One portion of humanity assaulted by AI is #undergraduates, some of whom have accordingly formed the vanguard of the pope’s call for disarmament. A recent essay in The New Critic, '#TheGreatZombification,' is an articulate cry of resistance. Written by Owen Yingling, a rising senior at the University of Chicago majoring in philosophy and business economics, the essay offers a student’s-eye view of the cognitive degradation wrought by rampant AI use. Yingling sees this as a catastrophe triggered in part by a kind of generational betrayal, as 'the old ... do not demand enough from us.' Last year, the Yale English professor Jonathan Kramnick predicted in our pages that 'as institutional leadership drifts toward anticipatory obedience, students will begin to reconstruct education around the living, embodied world of meaning and experience they feel has been stolen from them.' Yingling’s essay is a manifesto for that cause."

Full article [behind paywall, unfortunately]:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/here-come-the-student-ai-resisters?utm_campaign=che-eng-rg-twihe&utm_medium=em&utm_source=mkto&utm_content=26-05-30&mkt_tok=OTMxLUVLQS0yMTgAAAGiF8A1GmhjZDt1f4TQQA-i2cQGg9CtF0-W8ODvQjGNPQ-5n2OxxZMyJlsF2k1uWKQWvIvGednroINV6Bb71R7vgRkDmGumhbDRCT794fhwur5exC8

#AISucks #AntiAI #HigherEducation #AIResistance

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads/
#ycombinator #Purdue_University #Artificial_Intelligence #Graduation_requirement #Undergraduates #The_Ohio_State_University #Google #Apple #Purdue_University_President_Mung_Chiang

I am taking part in a #Charity #fundraising event today. I've been 'arrested' for being too much fun in the classroom teaching #law to #undergraduates 😄

We are fundraising for Home Start, a wonderful charity providing support for #Suffolk families.

Please donate to my 'bail' fund if you can!

https://www.justgiving.com/page/ruth-flaherty

@[email protected] @icymi_law @[email protected]

New posting! This one riffs on a few talking points from my latest (not quite my last!) paper, namely the role of #preprints in accelerating research and providing a "director's cut" of papers, how NOT to do #PeerReview, and the importance of involving #undergraduates in frontline research.

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/09/29/mr-smee-finds-a-home-a-riff-on-preprints-peer-review-and-undergraduate-research/

The joy that we see from the undergraduates on the #UBCFormulaElectric team is contagious.

We hope you'll agree.

#ElectricCars #Racing #Undergraduates #NextGeneration

Watch on PeerTube:
https://peertube.tv/w/4yMghxVcgorHUTAjifiYCY

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DVv7I2bvpb8

A talented & promising undergrad lab member & STAR Scholar, Carrie Gordon, presented a poster at the Drexel STAR Scholars Summer Showcase today. #drexel #undergraduateresearch #STARSchalar #undergraduates

https://symposium.foragerone.com/2023-star-showcase

https://toyooka-lab.academic.ws

https://drexel.edu/medicine/faculty/profiles/kazuhito-toyooka/

Nearly three-quarters (72 percent) of all #undergraduates received some type of #financialaid in the 2019-20 academic year, according to data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical center within the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The average amount of aid received was $14,100. https://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/press_releases/7_26_2023.asp cost of #education #economy #studentloans

Everyone Likes #Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It? #Book#ans, #chatbots, #pedagogical #warfare: What it means to #read has become a #minefield. The #ReadingCrisis reverberates at the higher reaches of educational system too. As #CorporateManagement models, #zealous #State Legislatures refashion the #academy into a #gated #outpost of the #GigEconomy, humanities have lost their luster for #undergraduates - fewer and fewer students are #majoring in #English https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/books/review/book-bans-humanities-ai.html

The #Netherlands looks about to offer an experiment in global #HigherEducation:

for many years (& increasingly so since #Brexit) the ability to take a whole degree in a #Dutch #university in English has been a key factor in its competitiveness in the global market for #undergraduates.

That may be about to stop as a proposal to make a proportion of any degree taught in Dutch work their way through the legislature.

Will English speakers go elsewhere or learn dutch?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/20/netherlands-seeks-curbs-on-english-language-university-courses

💰 PAID summer #research opportunities for #undergraduates in #Linguistics at UPenn and Michigan State - deadlines looming, act fast! http://www.jennifernycz.com/the-dus-desk/2023/1/10/-paid-summer-research-opportunities-in-linguistics

Amazing resource called #BioRender similar to #Canva for #biologists, #chemists etc for designing #scientific #diagrams. May be beneficial for @phdstudents @phdlife

https://biorender.com/

#research #design #PhD #Students #Undergraduates #Postgraduates #PostDocs #Professionals #Academics #Researchers

#introduction

Hi everyone!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biology at #HopeCollege (#PUI). I study #Behavior and #Neuroimmunology in mice and humans. My research uses #drugs of abuse (i.e. #morphine and #alcohol) and #space radiation to probe how peripheral #immune responses impact #cognition . I #teach and #mentor #undergraduates (#STEM) how to think about #science and challenge them to question HOW they know content. Here are some other topics/tags that I am fond of: #drugsofabuse #spaceradiation #learningandmemory #adultneurogenesis #microglia #macrophage #mentalhealth