In her Spotlight presentation Monday, September 26, Dr. Sutherlin referenced a discovery made by scientists in Italy that neutrinos (sub atomic particles that are found throughout the universe) fired at a receptor 500 miles away arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than light would have.  Here is an excerpt of an article from Reuters News Service that…

Monday in Cornerstone Kristina Campos shared a Chrysler advertisement that we unpacked together. She discussed the 2011 Super Bowl commercial and the set of cultural assumptions and implications that would have provided its original context. In her process, she walked through three key steps: Check Assumptions – what are the underlying assumptions or biases that…

In our honors section this first week, we explored the ideas Dr. Beck presented in his lecture. We discussed obstacles to critical thinking or those things that make critical thinking difficult. I introduced the concept of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and notions of “thin” and “thick” description and  invited students to consider an illustration from…