Teaching young students science, nature…and civil argumentation
Education Department Associate Professor Rola Khishfe has been training K-12 grade teachers how to teach students to argue, debate, and interact with one another on topics related to science and nature – in a way that allows them to disagree, but always in a civil manner. Evidence-based discussions on science and nature issues – like climate change, cloning, water resources, and many others – generate student interest because they impact people’s lives and usually generate solid arguments for and against basic points. She explains how her work promotes debates and argumentation anchored in facts, while also teaching young people to accept other students’ views because usually there are no explicitly right or wrong answers to seal a difference of opinion.
10 Jul 2022
Cancer detection and protection…from the lab to the world
Dr Rihab Nasr, Tenured professor at the department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences and director of cancer prevention and control program at the Naef K Basile Cancer Institute at the AUB Medical Center, has been internationally recognized for her breakthroughs in detecting leukemia and breast cancer at an early stage. She and her many colleagues’ and students’ innovations in early detection through simple blood tests promise good health and wellbeing for many people – but only, she explains, if the public education, policy-making, and commercial marketing worlds play their roles in working for the same aim.
3 Jul 2022
The magical effect of writing and reading poetry
Internationally renowned Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck’s new collection is published this week by Penguin Poets – the first Arab poet they publish. She graduated from AUB with BA and MA degrees, and has been recognized and published across the world. In this discussion, she explains how the title of this book, ‘O’, captures the ’o’ in body, love, God, mother, joy, ode, home, memory, Lebanon, and other dimensions of people’s lives. She reflects on how poetry amplifies the universal moments in life in the everyday sentiments and actions of people.
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