Curiosity – CAHSS Virtual

“The Land was Never Some of Ours”: Sustainability and Ecopoetic Perspectives on the Future (w/Dr. Chris McAllister Williams)

November 19, 2020 Ryan Martin Common CAHSS, Curiosity, Featured, Length: 15 minutes plus, Program: English, Program: Writing and Applied Arts, Type: Common CAHSS: Beyond Sustainability

The November talk of our 2020 Common CAHSS: Beyond Sustainability Speaker Series (w/Dr. Chris McAllister Williams; recorded on November, 18, […]

Curiosity: In Praise of Defamiliarization (with Chris Williams)

November 12, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Length: 4 minutes, Program: English, Type: Activities

“Strangeify” your world through chance and random generation, a useful practice that can provoke creative responses to the sometimes stifling […]

Curiosity: Take a Self-Compassion Break (with Alan Chu)

November 3, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 5 minutes, Program: Psychology, Type: Activities, Type: How To, Type: Knowledge

Practicing self-compassion promotes our well-being and performance, especially during challenging times. Learn and take a self-compassion break with Dr. Chu. […]

Curiosity: “Pernicious Trash?” Victorian Readers’ Biggest Secret (w/Rebecca Nesvet)

October 29, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 3 minutes, Program: English, Type: Knowledge

Discover the creative reading of the Victorian public: not Dickens, but “penny dreadfuls”: illustrated fiction that the mainstream press condemned. […]

The Civil Rights Movement meets the Environmental Movement (w/Dr. Elizabeth Wheat)

October 25, 2020 Ryan Martin Common CAHSS, Curiosity, Featured, Length: 15 minutes plus, Program: Political Science, Type: Common CAHSS: Beyond Sustainability

The October talk of our 2020 Common CAHSS: Beyond Sustainability Speaker Series (recorded on October 22, 2020). Common CAHSS is […]

Curiosity: How to Catch a Liar (with Jennifer Young)

October 20, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 10 minutes, Length: 5 minutes, Program: English, Type: Knowledge

Watch Professor Young bust Professor Martin as he spins himself into a web of lies from which he cannot escape. […]

Curiosity: How Does an EEG Work? (with Jason Cowell)

October 15, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 10 minutes, Program: Psychology, Type: Knowledge

A demonstration and explanation of an electroencephalogram (EEG). Curiosity by CAHSS is a video series featuring faculty, students, and staff […]

Curiosity: All Falls Down (with Faith Klick)

October 12, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 3 minutes, Program: Music, Type: Performance

Senior Music and Theatre major, Faith Klick, performs All Falls Down from the musical Chaplin Curiosity by CAHSS is a […]

Curiosity: Short Play Challenge (with Thomas Campbell)

October 8, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 4 minutes, Program: Theatre, Type: How To

Learn to write a short-play using the most basic definition of “what is a play” – a great way to […]

Curiosity: An Intense Desire to Know Stuff (with Ryan Martin)

October 6, 2020 Hanna Mertens Curiosity, Featured, Length: 5 minutes, Program: Psychology

How feeling curious offered our ancestors, human and nonhuman, real survival benefits and what it means for the inherent value […]