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Making Chemistry Palatable to Students Through Cooking

Apr 02 2025
Author Patricia O'Hara explains how her small molecular gastronomy course transformed into popular general course on food chemistry—introducing students to the basics of chemistry through approachable recipes.
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Teaching the Medieval through The Sea in the Middle

Aug 22 2022
By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of the pre-Modern West on the region of the sea and the lands that surround it better refle
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Teaching on Modern Art & Economic Development: a Class Resource

Feb 15 2022
By Sarah-Neel Smith, author of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar TurkeyThis post is designed as a classroom resource for teachers and students interested in modern Turkish art and larger themes of modernism in a global context. It is adapted from the new release Metrics of Mod
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