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Active Learning, Transformative Education

March 21, 2025

Sarah Grant

The students in the introductory computer science course of Associate Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor ’02 don’t scroll through social media in her lectures. Instead, they’re holding iClickers, small devices that enable them to vote on questions posed during class. Then they discuss the problems in small groups, collectively working out the complex concept.

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Agents of Change

March 21, 2025

Annie Zaleski

Fighting wildfires is difficult, dangerous work that puts the lives of firefighters at risk. But what if we had a more efficient way to extinguish these fires while putting fewer people in harm’s way? David H. and Margaret W. Barker Associate Professor of Computer Science and Business Adam Eck just might have the solution: highly specialized robots, powered by artificial intelligence, that have learned how to respond to and suppress these unpredictable natural disasters.

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