Professor Drew McClellan takes the stage for his talk titled "Crafting Horror: Shadows, Contrasts, and Cinematic Storytelling" at Lectures on Tap. (Emil Ravelo / For The Times) On a nippy Monday night ...

At this time of year, many people in the academic world begin wondering who has been selected to give the spring commencement address at their institutions. If sports fans obsess over bowl bids and ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Trying to engage large groups of students in a lecture hall can feel like a nightmare for some ...

Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, ...

The Illumination Discovery Hub at the University of Wisconsin held their monthly academic lecture, Crossroads of Ideas, Nov. 12. The theme for November’s lecture was Living and Learning with Animals.

Profs and Pints brings college faculty members into bars, cafés, company offices and other off-campus venues to share their knowledge. Profs and Pints, an organization based in Washington, D.C.

Take a 60-minute lecture. Cut the excess verbiage, do away with most of the details, and pare it down to key concepts and themes. What’s left? A “microlecture” over in as few as 60 seconds. A course ...

On a nippy Monday night at the Zebulon in Frogtown, a man wearing a Jason Voorhees T-shirt steps onto a purple-lighted stage and stands next to a drum set. Audience members, seated in neat rows and ...