This course focuses to enrich students understanding, communication, and access of and to research in the biological sciences.
Working to remove the myths about fundamental and translation research, this course focuses on informing students beyond the public perception of biology and biological research. Striving to develop students’ scientific communication, personal identity in science, and the intersection between research and community, we will engage students through a collaboration with the Philadelphia community in addition to lecture and discussion based learning.
Spring 2025
More than forty years after the normalization of relations between the United States and China, the relationship faces new and fundamental challenges with global implications. Designed as a policy task force, taught in coordination with a similar course to be taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing, this course will introduce students to the most pressing issues in U.S.-China relations –– including security, trade, climate, tech competition, and human rights. Each student will be required to complete a policy paper on some aspect of U.S.-China relations.
At the end of the course, students will travel to China to meet in-person with their Chinese counterparts at Tsinghua University, and to present their policy papers and recommendations to relevant interested Chinese audiences in Beijing and Shanghai. Travel to China will take place Wednesday, May 14 – Sunday, May 25, 2025.
Spring 2025
Climate change and environmental degradation pose some of the most complex challenges of our time. Building a sustainable future requires active and creative leadership by individuals, organizations, governments, and business firms.