Today’s post comes from Chris Dietz, class of 2017 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Art Center’s delightful new exhibition, Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial, showcases one of the most interesting works in the permanent collection—the German master Albrecht Dürer’s St.
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Shedding Light on “Mastering Light”
Today’s post comes from Calvin Lamothe, class of 2017 and Art Center Student Docent.
On April 11 at 5:30pm, Vassar students, museum employees, and community members alike crowded into Taylor Hall to hear William Sharpe’s opening lecture for the Art Center’s current exhibition Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial.
Can we teach cognitive flexibility?
For the past three weeks, my class and I have been reading experimental neuroscience articles about stress and physiological stress responses. The message coming through these articles is that a stress response occurs when an organism perceives an event as a threat to homeostasis of some sort. The response functions to “restore” homeostatic balance.
Magical Moments
Remember the movie, “Stand and Deliver?” Definitely one of my favorites. Jaime Escalante is a high school teacher in a rough neighborhood in East Los Angeles and he struggles to inspire his students to embrace learning and mathematics in particular. [One of my favorite lines is: “It’s not that they’re stupid.
Gaming the Course Evaluations
Okay, let’s admit it. We are all aware that it’s time to hand out our course evaluations. It’s our turn to squirm while our students circle bubbles on bubble forms and scribble furiously.