The event celebrates 10 years of attracting leading scientists, engineers and scholars from around the world to collaborate with Texas A&M’s outstanding faculty and students.
This is part of a series of interviews with Madison educators, organizers and leaders looking back at lessons they took from 2020. Find the others HERE.
In April, Indian novelist Arundhati Roy published a series of essays, including one titled âThe pandemic is a portal.â
âNothing could be worse than a return to normality,â Roy wrote in Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. âHistorically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.â
This idea has been the yearâs biggest takeaway for Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus, author and education researcher. The COVID-19 pandemic is a portal, she said, for educators in Madison and across the country to rethink how they teach.
Andrew Feinberg named Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M University
The Bloomberg Distinguished Professor will conduct epigenetic studies at TAMU facilities and build research collaborations between the universities through the fellowship By Annika Weder / Published Dec 10, 2020
The Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M announced Andrew Feinberg, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Epigenetics, as one of ten Hagler Fellows for its Class of 2020-21. The Hagler Institute plans to induct the Class of 2020-21 Hagler Fellows during its annual gala in 2021.
Image caption: Andrew Feinberg
Image credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University
The program aims to provide a catalyst to advance research productivity by bringing together distinguished faculty and providing an environment for collaboration within and across disciplines. Hagler Fellows are selected from among top scholars in their respective fields who have been recognized inter