Amy Herman, head of education at the Frick Collection in New York City, has since 2004 offered “The Art of Observation” program, which offers members of the NYC police, the FBI, and the National Guard professional training in observational technique by using art works in the Frick holdings. Adapted from a similar program that the […]
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Register for “Humanities Advocacy Day 2011” in Washington, D.C.
The National Humanities Alliance in the U.S. has opened registration for its 2011 Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., March 7-8, 2011. Scholars, higher education and association leaders, and policy makers will convene for an annual conversation on the state of the humanities and to make their voices heard on the Hill. Plan to attend […]
Haiti Lab
Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute has started an initiative to create “humanities laboratories” that convene groups of faculty and students to work on interdisciplinary humanities research and pedagogy in spaces specially designed for collaborative work and focused on using technology as a “tool for research, research dissemination, pedagogy, and collection/archive development. The first of these […]
Cornell University President Calls for Campaign for the Humanities
In his State of the University Address at Cornell University on October 29, 2010, and in later interviews, David Skorton, President of Cornell, has made a bold call for advocacy for the humanities at his university and nationwide in the U.S. It is “time for Cornell to step up and advocate for arts and humanities […]
A Scientist Advocates the Humanities
Gregory A. Petsko, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Brandeis University, published in Genome Biology on November 10, 2010, an open letter to the President of the State University of New York at Albany, on the occasion of that university’s decision in October 2010 to eliminate its departments of French, Italian, Classics, Russian and Theater […]
PhDComics
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See next PhDComics strip.
Brienza and Priego: The Impact of the Budget Cuts in the United Kingdom on Postgraduate Education
Casey Brienza, Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and Ernesto Priego, Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies at University College London, assess the impact of the planned higher-education budget cuts in the U.K. on students seeking Ph.D. and other postgraduate degrees Yet lost in this debate is much in the way of […]