Historians share surprising stories in the McCauley Lecture Series at the Washington County Free Library in downtown ...

Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

John R. Barker paces the front of the lecture hall, gesturing at slides with a laser pointer and explaining to a room full of undergraduates how scientists use data to make predictions about global ...

A scholar from Kenyon College, Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher, is coming to Bates to give two back-to-back talks ...

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II — What Can We Do About It?” for the second in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human ...

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I — What on Earth Have We Done?” for the first in her two-part Tanner Lecture on ...

I’m honored to report that I’ve been asked to deliver this year’s John Wesley Powell Memorial Lecture. Here is a description of the lecture series from its organizers, the Southwestern and Rocky ...