Dr. Donald Luidens, professor of sociology at Hope College, will present “As I Was Saying. . . .” on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium through the “Last Lecture Series” ...

Years ago, Carnegie Mellon University developed the concept for a "Last Lecture Series" that challenged presenters to deliver a talk as if it were their last chance to impart wisdom on others.

FLINT, Michigan-- Jeffrey Zaslow was nervous. "It's hard to know what to say to a dying man," Zaslow said The senior writer and columnist for The Wall Street Journal addressed faculty Friday at the ...

Igor Mitrovic, MD, arrived at the JFK airport in New York on Dec. 24, 1991, a refugee from a country that was sliding into chaos. Just out of medical school, he had come to join his wife. But he ...

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch’s last lecture still resonates. The traditional—and untraditional–last lecture is one professors routinely deliver at the podium. Pausch’s was untraditional ...

Healing tooth decay can inspire life lessons and serve as a reminder of the darker elements of human nature. So said David Graham, DDS, professor of preventive and restorative dental sciences and a ...

Time seems infinite when you’re a kid, elusive when you’re an adult, and precious when you’re near death. “Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think,” wrote ...

For about two hours every Tuesday and Thursday last semester, I would sit in the back of Mason Hall 1448 and listen to my Literary Cognition professor detail the cognitive benefits of storytelling and ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed the importance of public health and scientific and policy lessons from the pandemic in Gaston Hall Feb. 1 as part of Georgetown University’s annual Whittington Lecture.

Hope College provost Cady Short-Thompson will present the address “Lessons from Adversity” through the “Last Lecture Series” organized by the college’s Dianne Portfleet Alcor chapter of the national ...

Back in April, we posted a blog entry about Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, delivered a “Last Lecture” about achieving childhood ...