Louis Tay, William C. Byham Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Purdue University and co-founder of ExpiWell, will address how psychological measurement can transform the way we detect and regulate bias…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/measuring-machine-how-psychological-measurement-can-transform-ai-accountabilityThough often seen as infallible, forensic investigations are done by humans, and humans are imperfect. Jeff Kukucka, professor of psychology at Towson University, will draw from his work as a researcher, expert witness,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/real-csi-addressing-bias-and-error-crime-labs-and-autopsiesDavid Brooks is a former opinion columnist at the New York Times, current contributor to The Atlantic and frequent contributor to media outlets nationwide. He writes about "political, social and cultural trends, the cla…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/evening-david-brooksThe Migrant Child Farmworkers – Now High-Profile Professionals© is an original documentary short film (executive producer Diane Wagner ’87, director Jesse Gift) featuring Xolo Maridueña, star of Blue Beetle and Cobra Ka…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/migrant-child-farmworkers-now-high-profile-professionalsc-film-screeningSteve Grove '00 has spent his career at the intersection of politics, media, and tech. His recent book, How I Found Myself in the Midwest, shares his journey of leaving a successful career at Google in Silicon Valley to…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/leading-through-crisis-power-going-local-make-changeThrough a series of images drawn by artists from the past imagining life in the future, Ken Liu, award-winning author of speculative fiction, asks the audience to think through provocative questions about the science fi…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/future-implausible-why-science-fiction-always-gets-future-wrong-and-why-thats-good-thingWhen does a war begin? When does it end? Start dates and end dates for wars are readily available in textbooks, but are the beginnings and endings really so obvious? Currently, the U.S. claims not to be at war with any…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/are-we-war-history-and-meaning-wartime-united-statesThis year’s NCAA Convention in Washington, D.C. brought CMS Athletics to the national stage to learn about important opportunities shaping collegiate competition now and in the future.Best of all, it also offered CMC an…
Historian Don Romesburg '93, a lead scholar implementing California's groundbreaking FAIR Education Act, will discuss the long journey to bring LGBTQ history education to the nation's K-12 schools. Today, many states ha…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/contested-curriculum-fighting-queer-history-k-12-schoolsSandeep Robert Datta P’26, M.D., PhD., professor of neuroscience at Harvard University, will discuss how new technology is revolutionizing our understanding of the brain and how abrupt changes in the compact between uni…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ministry-interfering-hogwarts-promise-perils-and-politics-modern-neuroscience