Showing papers by "Kenneth L. Campbell published in 2017"

How to Build Bridges: Career Stories that Connect the Humanities and the Sciences

Abstract: In Spring 2013 and 2015 the Honors Program/College at the University of Massachusetts Boston offered a junior Honors Colloquium, Humanity and Humanness: A Debate between the Liberal Arts and the Sciences An analysis of our colloquium experiences indicated that the most efficient and effective way to instill the habits and means of inter-, cross-, and transdisciplinary thinking into trainees was to allow students to interview and interact with individuals who had incorporated, early or late in their own work, those habits and means Seeing how others had struggled with and negotiated life and career decisions and arrived at emotionally and psychologically fulfilling positions that allowed expression of both technical and aesthetic parts of people’s personalities was key to students understanding, adopting, and incorporating such attitudes and ideas into their own lives We wish to share with a wider audience six of the stories told by the Honors Colloquium visitors