Each day is unique. Any day can bring good times, difficult times, challenges, or opportunities. We may not have much influence over external events or life’s inevitable challenges, but we do have ...

Learning from the past is critical for shaping the future, especially when it comes to economic policymaking. Building upon the current methods in the application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to the ...

In “Teaching in an Age of ‘Militant Apathy’” (The Chronicle, February 15), you ask if immersive education can become the norm when traditional curricula ignore students’ lived experiences. You make an ...

‘I’m not gonna do this again’, we often say when faced with negative feedback, adverse effects, or disappointing outcomes. Thus, we attempt to learn from such negative experiences. This principle is ...

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Like white-collar workers reluctant to return to the office, many undergraduates now question the value of attending class in person. They see little reason to sit through lectures when the same ...

“We had the experience but missed the meaning.” – T.S. Eliot Think back to a time, in either your professional or personal life, when you learned a very important lesson that has positively impacted ...

My recent experience as a party, advocate and neutral in arbitration and mediation evokes the first line of a Charles Dickens novel about challenging times in history when the French experienced both ...