Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...

Asking students to take lecture notes using pen and paper gives them a “deeper cognitive understanding” of what they are studying, a researcher has found. For the study, published in Teaching in ...

The University Writing Program's "Prized Writing" contains work from students across campus. The cover was created by Kristen Shih, a fourth-year design and cinema and digital media double major.&nbsp ...

For the 2021 edition of the annual Marianne D. McComb Series in Creative Writing, hosted by the Department of English, the theme was centered on mental health and addiction. The month-long series was ...

Writing has always been a pleasure. Even as a boy at school I looked forward to the class set aside for writing a story, or whatever our teachers thought would interest us, more than to any other ...

Bates presents lecturers offering insight into mathematics and medical technology on Feb. 26 and 28. Leila Schneps, a mathematician specializing in number theory (and moonlighting as a murder-mystery ...

Best-selling crime writer Val McDermid is to speak at an annual writing event. The author - dubbed the "Queen of Crime" - will be speaking at the 10th Annual Creative Writing Lecture at the University ...

encouraging the habit of writing about important concepts and finding our what you know and understand. During a lecture, it can be helpful for students to try to recap what they are hearing and to ...