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Engineers in Novels: A Series Preview
When I defended my thesis on the integration of engineering and liberal education, one audience member asked when I expected engineering education to truly become a liberal education, to which I...
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Part III: Spenser, Superheroes, and Ethics: Allegory in the 21st Century
Read Part II: Superheroes and Ethics? III. Ethical Contentment in Spenser and the Renaissance Most recently, I’ve been studying Reformation concepts of contentment in English Renaissance literature,...
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Part II: Spenser, Superheroes, and Ethics: Allegory in the 21st Century
Read Part I: “But why do you hate it? II. Superheroes and Ethics? I was primed to appreciate Spenser from an early age, but this doesn’t mean that I enjoyed reading. Some people are surprised to learn...
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Part I: Spenser, Superheroes, and Ethics: Allegory in the 21st Century
Paul Zajac is a Rock Ethics Institute Humanities Initiative Dissertation Fellow. This post, along with part 2 and part 3, describe his dissertation. I. “But why do you hate it?” [...]
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Online Feminist Activism: Does Technological Progress Equal Progress...
The Washington Post recently published an article by Michelle Goldberg about the “psychic costs” that come with being a woman who writes about feminism online. The women who were interviewed described...
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Food ethics: wasted?
Against the backdrop of growing environmental and societal concerns, restaurants may soon come to be judged not just by how good the food is, but also by how well the food waste is managed. Guest Post...
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Helping Haiti One Step at at Time
This guest post is written by Cara McDonald, a 2015 Stand Up Award recipient. You can see more of her story at www.StandUpPSU.com. My motivation to help Haiti is driven by an undeniable passion to see...
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STEM Education and The ‘n’ Cultures
Education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has never been able to avoid its entanglement with culture. A well known illustration of this entanglement is the “Two Cultures,”...
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The Day After Marriage Equality
This guest post is written by Parker Werns, a 2015 Stand Up Award recipient. You can see more of his story at www.StandUpPSU.com. Across the United States, people are celebrating — another state is...
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Engineers in Novels No. 1: The Mise-en-Scène
Six hardcover books lay on my desk. My hand reached the stack and pulled out one copy randomly. Hence started my series reading and review of “engineer novels.” I had no idea the first novel I opened...
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