18 min
Collaboration in the Sciences, with Ned Wingreen '80 Learned
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What skills will students need to be prepared for an increasingly complex future? As technology continues to shape our society and our structures of communication, how should education respond? And can places of privilege foster equity and inclusivity within and beyond their communities? My name is Tristan Friedberg Rodman. This is Learned.
On Learned, we’re looking beyond test scores and college acceptance rates to understand how education can shape the future of our society — and what kind of teaching we need to bring us there.
Our guest today is Ned Wingreen. Ned graduated from Oakwood in 1980 and now, as you heard, teaches molecular biology at Princeton University in New Jersey. He's the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. He also holds a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cornell. Right now, he's focused on modeling intracellular networks in bacteria and other microorganisms. Ned, Ivan, and Christie met up at Princeton to talk about scientific communication, diversifying the faculty and student body, and the tensions between sheltering students so that they can focus and exposing them to the world beyond.
What skills will students need to be prepared for an increasingly complex future? As technology continues to shape our society and our structures of communication, how should education respond? And can places of privilege foster equity and inclusivity within and beyond their communities? My name is Tristan Friedberg Rodman. This is Learned.
On Learned, we’re looking beyond test scores and college acceptance rates to understand how education can shape the future of our society — and what kind of teaching we need to bring us there.
Our guest today is Ned Wingreen. Ned graduated from Oakwood in 1980 and now, as you heard, teaches molecular biology at Princeton University in New Jersey. He's the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. He also holds a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Cornell. Right now, he's focused on modeling intracellular networks in bacteria and other microorganisms. Ned, Ivan, and Christie met up at Princeton to talk about scientific communication, diversifying the faculty and student body, and the tensions between sheltering students so that they can focus and exposing them to the world beyond.
18 min