The Plight of the College Student
“Art is everywhere in our terribly visual culture. You don’t have to study art. You’re living it.” –Professor Norman Bryson Professor Norman Bryson
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Behind the Lectern
Behind the Lectern is a features column written by a different writer each week. We aim to show a different side to the professors you know and love, or perhaps don’t know after all.
Professor Paul Pickowicz – Thirty Steps to the Front
Out of the hundreds of students in his lecture at a small Western Massachusetts college, Paul Pickowicz sat toward the back. He was
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Mary McKay – Training the Next Generation of Leaders
At 14 years old, when most teenage girls were preoccupied with other engagements, a young Professor Mary McKay began to work. Her intellectual
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Mia Minnes: Mathematician and Computer Scientist Extraordinaire
It is a wet day. I sit on the bright red couch in computer science professor Mia Minnes’ room, warming up from the
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Leaving the American Sector: Professor William O’Brien
Tucked away at the end of a third-floor hallway in the literature building, you’ll come across a curious door. Plastered over it are
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Eliot Wirshbo – UCSD’s Latin Teacher
Eliot Wirshbo was born on a cold evening in Brooklyn during a record-setting snowstorm. When he was two years old his parents moved
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Behind the Lectern: What the Science — Profanity and the Brain
Profanity, talking while driving, how the mind computes words and grammar — these are just some of the topics Benjamin Bergen, professor at
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Behind the Lectern: Disappearing Disciplines — Fight for the Humanities
Mel Freilicher is a published author and a lecturer in the literature department at UCSD. He is originally from Yonkers, New York and
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Behind the Lectern: Professor Geoffrey W. Cook – Just Call Me Geoff
“when I first started teaching when I was a graduate student it seemed totally natural. There was some apprehension but when you love
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Behind the Lectern: Professor Vanessa Ribas – Studying Sociology in the Wild
Among the books lining the office of Vanesa Ribas, a sociology professor here at UCSD, is one of her own, entitled “On the
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