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Tag Archives: Arizona State University
How to change an organization, a department, a curriculum
Whatever field you are in, there will be organizations with structure and rules. In academics, departments have committees, undergraduates have a required curriculum, graduate students have their courses, exams, and theses. Sometimes these structures are very well known and standard … Continue reading
Posted in Department politics, Life in a biology department, Politics, Undergraduates
Tagged alliances, Arizona State University, behavioral ecology, change, conflict, cooperation, Curriculum, Education, evolutionary biology, Harvard University, organization, stucture, tradition, Undergraduate education, Wikipedia
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Xenophobia – can we get rid of it? Can we understand it in Arizona?
What kind of meeting do you like best, the kind where everyone has the same background you do, or the kind where there are people of different backgrounds? If the meeting is too large, there will be a natural tendency … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific meetings
Tagged Arizona State University, Bert Hölldobler, Brad Armendt, Carlos Navarrete, Charles Blow, David Queller, Douglas Kenrick, Frans DeWall, Freeman Dyson, Herbert Gintis, Jeffrey Sachs, Jim Sidanius, Joan Silk, Kim Hill, Laurie Santos, Lawrence Kraus, Manfred Laubichler, Mark Schaller, Michael Hchter, New York Times, Phobia, Psychology, Rebecca Saxe, Richard Wrangham, Robert Boyd, Robert Kurzban, Social Sciences, Steven Neuberg, Washington University in St. Louis, Xenophobia
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