Since arriving at Stevens six years ago, Professor Theresa MacPhail has been a go-to source for advice on nasty viruses. She is a medical anthropologist who specializes in global responses to pandemics.
Posts published by “John Horgan”
Like everyone else in the world, the Stevens community could use some good news. So let me tell you about Kaitlin Gili, a Stevens senior majoring in Physics, and the organization she founded, EWAAB, which helps young women planning to enter physics, computer science, and other male-dominated professions.
Through most of my youth, I was a pessimist. My Mom called me Eeyore, after the gloomy donkey in Winnie the Pooh.
I’m recovering from the flu, so I’ve spent more time than usual by myself lately, with odd ideas swirling around in my feverish brain.
The mind-body problem is the deepest mystery of existence. Narrowly speaking, it asks how a brain — a mere chunk of matter, a bundle of quarks and electrons — makes a mind.
Chris Search, a professor of physics, is one of my favorite Stevens people. I like having him speak to my science-writing students because they love hearing him riff about physics and other science-related topics.
I often dwell on free will as the new year begins, and my resolutions (quit caffeine, again, start meditating, again) are already wavering