July 22, 2020, 7PM
Virtual Faculty Roundtable: Intellectual Humility
We are excited to partake in an experimental virtual Roundtable hosted over Zoom that explores the idea of Intellectual Humility with speakers Marcelo Glaser and Cullen Buie.
Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his Ph.D. from King’s College London and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. To read more about Marcelo Gleiser, please visit his website.
Cullen Buie is an Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation. His laboratory explores flow physics at the microscale for applications in materials science and applied biosciences. To read more about Cullen Buie, please visit the Veritas website.
Suggested pre-event Reading and video for the Virtual Roundtable:
“The Importance of Knowing You Might be Wrong”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/4/17989224/intellectual-humility-explained-psychology-replication
"The Joy of Being Wrong"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXNUx4cua0&feature=emb_logo
If you are interested in learning more about this event or would like to be added to our email list for future Faculty Roundtable events, please email Soozie Schneider at soozie.schneider@yale.edu.