The following post was written by Dee Gardner, a Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Center. One of our remarkable human endowments is the ability to learn and store words and their meanings. This is a process that continues throughout our lifetimes, and there appears to be no limit to how many words we can learn. …
“Providing a World of Opportunities for Students”: Chantal Thompson’s Work with Dual Language Immersion Programs
Utah has become a model for dual language immersion programs around the country—and around the world. The state of Utah currently offers 38 immersion programs in Chinese, 19 in French, 2 in German, 6 in Portuguese, and 73 in Spanish, for a total of 138 schools participating in dual language immersion. And why are these …
A Whole New Way of Seeing the Sky
The following post was written by Ed Cutler, a Faculty Fellow for the Center. Rocking the world of physics earlier this week, a team of scientists confirmed that they have directly observed gravitational waves, the so-called ripples in the very fabric of spacetime Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity had predicted a hundred years ago. Because …
A Case for the Marriage of Technical Fields with the Humanities
As an English major I have had the opportunity to study literature in connection with many other disciplines including history, religion, math, psychology, philosophy, science, film, trauma studies, and adaptation studies, to name a few. Studying these fields in conjunction with literature is one of my favorite parts about being an English major. I learn …