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...Social emotions call up so much about your own episodic memory - self and space and time," says co-author Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an assistant professor of educational psychology at USC. "When all of those things are activated together, your memories, your plans for the future, it kind of converges at this center part of the brain...
Speaking in front of a packed Sackler Museum Auditorium on Thursday, Scottish novelist and law professor Alexander McCall-Smith admitted to writing about real-life acquaintances in his fiction. “I take great pleasure in putting real people into books. I take their permission, well, not entirely,” he said, before warning event host Professor Arthur I. Applbaum that he might come up in a future novel. McCall-Smith, a former professor of medical ethics at the University of Edinburgh, was born in Zimbabwe and lived for many years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes...
...while fulfilling his pre-med requirements. As a freshman, Iweala planned to concentrate in economics. But after some time in his first Economics 10 lecture, a thoroughly bored Iweala walked out to catch the last 20 minutes of another course on his shopping list. It was led by English Professor Steven Greenblatt. Iweala had no idea who the renowned theorist and Shakespeare scholar was, but the way he talked about Chaucer made it “seem like the most incredible thing to read on the earth.” Iweala was hooked. After switching to English, Iweala stuck...
...helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades,” she says. Under the guidance of Professor Jamaica Kincaid, Ganeshananthan completed her creative thesis. Seven years and about 150 pages later, she turned it into her first novel, “Love Marriage.” Before her career in fiction took off, however, Ganeshananthan became editor of her high school newspaper, and after enrolling at Harvard...
...been in my large lecture class in spring 2004. In fall 2005, Professor Nikki Giovanni reported him to me because she was concerned about a poem he'd written for her class that seemed to be very angry. I asked him by email if he would come and see me. And his response was unusual. He said he assumed I would be yelling at him. I wrote back saying I don't yell at students and I really just had some questions about him. He came to talk with me and [English professor] Cheryl Ruggiero...