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Beyond the Ivory Tower
On Being: When we talk about the relationship between colleges and the world, we tend to focus on economics. But what is the place of institutions of higher education in the communities they inhabit? How
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How Educators Can Engage Millennial Minds
The Huffington Post: Millennials, the generation who are always one step ahead when it comes to knowing what they want and how to get it. They are the generation who value experiences above anything else
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Reaching Citizens Through Science
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Thinking With Gestures
Can gestures speak louder than words? APS President-Elect Susan Goldin-Meadow certainly thinks so. During her William James Fellow Award Address, Goldin-Meadow shared highlights from her seminal research on the power of gesture, beginning with the
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Paving the Way to Loan Repayment
Student-loan balances are ballooning, and many borrowers struggle to keep pace with their loan payments. Loan repayment plans that are tied to borrowers’ current incomes can make repayment more manageable, but borrowers have to know
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Redesigning and Enhancing the ‘Jigsaw Classroom’ Website
In April 2014, APS Fellow Scott Plous (Wesleyan University) received a grant from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science to make the Jigsaw Classroom website more accessible and operable with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
