Last Wednesday, the Center for Science Writings within the College of Arts and Letters hosted a fireside chat with Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of recent bestseller, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
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Last year, around the beginning of the pandemic, I started reading for pleasure. I began with some classic novels, like Frankenstein, The Bell Jar, and the 900-page Anna Karenina which all made me hooked on the world of fiction.
I’ve always been curious about the limitations of Amazon’s breadth of items, so I’m going to challenge you to do an exercise.
Students were shocked to discover this week that the school was planning to still host the absolute rager known as TechFest, but were less surprised to find out that, much like literally everything else, the pandemic had ruined it beyond recognition.
According to a recent email sent to all students by Marybeth Murphy, the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, “the planning for commencement 2021 is underway.”
Hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have been at an all-time high in part by racism occurring during COVID-19.
After a year off, Techfest is back for 2021—now virtual—and featuring the biggest bill of artists ever. Several different events are currently planned, with the first being on Thursday March 25.
On Wednesday, March 24, at 9 p.m., members of the Stevens community joined together virtually in STOP ASIAN HATE: A Virtual Rally & Interactive Dialogue.
I’ve always done my best to live by this idea. To be better today than I was yesterday. It’s a fairly simple concept and falls directly in line with the idea that we must not compare ourselves to others, as hard as that can be.
“World’s greatest inventions” as a Google search produces hundreds of millions of results in a split second. There are a dozen websites on the first page alone (because everyone knows you just don’t go to the second page of Google), all of which have their own list on what exactly the world’s greatest inventions are.