Helping CEOs listen
August 07, 2018. Updated: August 08, 2018. “I hated my job – not because I didn’t like the work – but because I felt that my boss wasn’t hearing me,” says Claire Lew, now CEO […]
Opinion
Touching the sun to protect the Earth
Faculty Q&A Justin Kasper, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan, is a mission principal investigator on the Parker Solar Probe, which launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. […]
BBC: Why we hate using email but love sending texts
6 August 2018 Bryan Lufkin Around 15 years ago, I was working at my part-time job at an electronics store at the mall. One of my colleagues asked me if I “use text messages.” “I’m […]
Capital gains and why they matter – a tax expert explains
August 8, 2018 6.37am EDT Stephanie Leiser The Trump administration wants to change the way capital gains are taxed to factor in inflation. To many, this may sound like a technical change of little consequence. To others, […]
BBC: What is the future of English in the US?
9 August 2018 Bryan Lufkin Ten years ago, I moved to Japan to teach English as a second language in a rural high school. The experience taught me just how fortunate I was, through dumb […]
“2018 Chinese Student Employment White Paper” Released: These Jobs Are Good for The United States!
In 2017, the five majors most popular with international students are: Industrial Engineering Engineer (21.4%), Business/Management Business & Management (18.6%), Math/Computer Science Math/Computer Science (15.5%), and other high-tech fields. STEM (11.5%), Social Science (7.7%). However, […]
Ted Petry, last known witness to pioneering nuclear reaction at UChicago, 1924-2018
Aug 7, 2018 Michael Drapa In early 1942, Ted Petry was recruited out of high school to a secret government project at the University of Chicago, told only that it had “something to do with […]
Talking philosophy, privacy, and race with Anita Allen
July 20, 2018 Michele W. Berger When Anita Allen started studying philosophy in graduate school in 1974, just a handful of other African-American female scholars had attempted to enter the white-dominated, mostly male field. Yet Allen pursued […]
Finding Love in Sydney
July 25, 2018 Kristine Lai, CAS ’21 There’s something effortless about love– the way you fall head over heels into something so easy and beautiful and you lose your breath every time you realize how incredibly […]
Agra Experience
JULY 26, 2018 Makeda Barr-Brown Last weekend I went to Agra. Agra’s energy was extremely similar to Delhi, in my opinion. I was immediately approached by rickshaw drivers once I got off the train. By […]