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            5 Articles Categorized Under First-Year Reading: Science & Technology

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            February 23 2022

            In Memoriam: Dr. Paul Farmer, Subject of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains (1959–2022)

            Dr. Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist, physician, and professor at Harvard Medical School, passed away on February 21, 2022, in Butaro, Rwanda. Dr. Farmer was the subject of Tracy Kidder’s 2003 book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. The book is an account of the difference

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            In Memoriam: Dr. Paul Farmer, Subject of Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains (1959–2022)

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            February 23 2022
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            December 14 2020

            Watch Jamil Zaki, Author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS, Speak About the Power of Empathy

            Jamil Zaki, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, joined Penguin Random House Education and the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) at their annual conference, held virtually this October, to speak about the psychology behind empathy. Based on 15 years of research, he

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            Watch Jamil Zaki, Author of THE WAR FOR KINDNESS, Speak About the Power of Empathy

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            December 14 2020
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            April 28 2020

            Restorative ocean farmer Bren Smith discusses the future of food through creating a sustainable environment

            Bren Smith, author of Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change and executive director of Greenwave gives an inside view of the process of ocean farming and its potential to save the planet in two informative videos. In “This Incredible underwater farm could be the future of food” produced

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            Restorative ocean farmer Bren Smith discusses the future of food through creating a sustainable environment

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            April 28 2020
            First Year Reading The Circle
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            April 3 2017

            THE CIRCLE by Dave Eggers has been selected for Common Reading at Auburn University

            Auburn University has chosen The Circle by Dave Eggers as their 2017 Common Book. Auburn is the 26th college or university to select The Circle for their common reads program. This novel, which is soon to be a major motion picture, follows idealistic Mae Holland after she is hired to work for the world’s most powerful

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            First Year Reading The Circle

            THE CIRCLE by Dave Eggers has been selected for Common Reading at Auburn University

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            April 3 2017
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            January 25 2017

            Journalist Jon Ronson on Twitter Shaming

            Twitter has become a stage for constant artificial high drama, where every day a new person emerges as either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain.

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            Journalist Jon Ronson on Twitter Shaming

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            January 25 2017
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