May 2026
GOOD THOUGHT
In his article about joy and engineering, Cameron Kim, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Biomedical Engineering and the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at Duke University, reminds us that curiosity and joy are integral elements to learning. Read more.
I read my first Tana French novel almost 20 years ago. It was her debut, In the Woods, that would become part of a series of six murder mysteries—the Dublin murder squad. I picked it up off a table at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill as my children whirled about me, whining ever more loudly that the store was boring. I bought it so I wouldn’t leave the store empty-handed and defeated. I’m not generally a murder mystery person, but the Dublin connection intrigued me. Instantly, I was hooked.
GOOD WORK
When Anna McEwan arrived as dean of the Orlean Beeson School of Education at Samford University in January 2020, she inherited a vision statement promising to graduate students who were not only professionally competent but also people of excellent character. Her first question to faculty cut straight to the gap between aspiration and practice: "I know you measure competence—test scores, pass rates, licensure rates—but how are you addressing excellence in character? We all know that's difficult to measure, but what are you doing intentionally to address that side of the coin?"
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