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Alternate Realities: Fictional Worlds & Real World Change
Does watching Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse shift our views on representation and systemic racism in the United States? Can playing the video game Papers, Please increase our empathy for immigrants ...
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- History and Social Science
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Breaking Barriers: Mobilizing Effective Protest
Black Lives Matter forces America to confront racial inequities in its justice system. The #MeToo movement holds the powerful accountable. School Strike for Climate speaks for a generation demanding ...
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- Science and Engineering
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Cause Unknown
Jordan is an 8-year-old orphaned girl of color with an unknown past who you are evaluating for seemingly unrelated ailments. As you implement her medical care, you'll consider its implications for her ...
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- History and Social Science
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Colonizing Space: How to Build an Extraterrestrial City
Explore the fundamentals of space travel and civic planning as you develop a strategic plan for building a sustainable city on another planet. For example, what do humans need in space? Consider ...
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September 17, 2022
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- Computer Science and Technology
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Designing Inclusive Algorithms
Can a computer be sexist? In what ways does artificial intelligence reinforce racial stereotypes and social segregation? Machine learning now shapes how humans shop, learn, socialize, and consume ...
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- Science and Engineering
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Everything is Connected: Solutions for a Warming World
Examine the parameters of climate change, climate science, and policy as you map out humans’ adaptation to global warming. You and your peers will act as scientists focused on solving critical threats ...
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- History and Social Science
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In Case of Emergency: Healthcare Challenges in the 21st Century and Beyond
From drug-resistant bacteria to chronic respiratory diseases to shortages of fresh water, tremendous health crises are imminent, driven by the same global factors and inequities that fueled COVID-19 ...
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- Mathematics
- CTY-Level
Incentives for a Better World
Next time you go to the grocery store, pay attention to where products are placed on shelves. Why are the cheaper store-brand items on the bottom shelf? Behavioral economics contributes to social ...
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- History and Social Science
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Lights! Camera! Action?
In recent years, critically acclaimed films like Coco, Crazy Rich Asians, Hidden Figures, Blinded by the Light, and Black Panther have begun to address the lack of starring roles for people of color ...
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Rethinking Economic and Social Justice in the Time of COVID-19
During the economic downturn sparked by the global pandemic in 2020, governments all over the world enacted a variety of emergency measures to sustain their people and economies. Unfortunately, equity ...
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