Education Writing
Andrew Bauld
Writer and Audio Producer
Experienced writer, audio producer, and communications specialist with extensive background in education and nonprofit fields.
Experienced writer, audio producer, and communications specialist with extensive background in education and nonprofit fields.
Education Writing
They can be small and almost unnoticeable. A casual comment, joke, or even a compliment. Perhaps it's the mispronouncing of a name or the assigning of a task that reinforces stereotypical gender or race roles. Microaggressions are everyday behaviors that add up to daily indignities for people of color, LGBTQ community members, and women.
In 1966, Boston-area parents and school administrators joined together to launch a busing program to help desegregate schools by bringing students of color from Boston's predominantly black and Latinx neighborhoods to schools in white suburban communities.
Despite the adverse effects of physical punishment on a child's development, including increased antisocial behavior and higher risks of depression and other mental health problems, only 53 countries have outright banned the practice. In fact, in Colombia, a country that has been rocked with civil conflict for over half a century, corporal punishment continues to be seen by many as an acceptable punishment for children.
Autism affects tens of millions of individuals around the world, but the ability to detect the disorder in young children remains nearly impossible. That may change, thanks in part to the research of Ph.D. candidate April Boin Choi, who has spent her early career studying the disorder and believes that doctors might one day be able to diagnose autism starting in infancy.
One thousand years in the future, the America we know today is a very different place. Ruled by a dystopian monarchy that has shut down all democratic institutions, a small group of dissenters struggle to keep historical records intact, but they possess only bits and pieces of the important writings that once made up the foundations of American government.
From Hollywood to the Oval Office, a new generation of Berkeley Carroll alumni are making their mark on the world.
Arts, Culture, & Politics Writing
Emily Yoon's poetry is not meant to be pretty. In writing about gender, race and violence against women, she intertwines the histories of her native Korea and the United States, revealing the painful echoes of the past. It is through such memories Yoon finds a particular beauty.
Wilco's Glenn Kotche, Assoc. Prof. Steven Rings collaborate on Gray Center course
" With Bellow's drafts, it's so clear that he was constantly reworking sentences, until he hit on the right note. It was kind of like listening to a jazz musician improvise."
It's not often that the road to Nashville starts at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But that's where Elisa Smith was in January 2015. A graduate student at the time, Smith was sitting in the audience of a packed lecture hall to hear country musicians Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood share stories of their careers and offer advice to hopeful artists.
There is no doubt that for his on-field heroics, Tom Brady deserves to be chiseled onto the Mount Rushmore of Boston sports figures. There is room for debate about who those other faces should be, but the short list has to include Bill Russell, Ted Williams and David Ortiz.
The idealism of public service and the reality of governing were at the heart of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Feb. 7 address at the University of Chicago. Speaking to a packed Mandel Hall as part of the Institute of Politics' fifth anniversary celebration, Trudeau struck a balance between political optimism and the challenges facing the United States and Canada.
Will Jill Stein and Gary Johnson have something serious to say to rally communities of color, members of the LGBTQ community, Muslim-Americans and all groups that feel the fear and anger that has come in the wake of Donald Trump's victory? Or will they fade away and leave their supporters to carry on in their absence?
Audio Work
It has been a long journey for economist Richard Thaler, from early days struggling to get his research published to being honored with a Nobel Prize in October 2017. Often dubbed as "one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics," Thaler has worked to bridge the gap between psychology and economic theory to explain people's often irrational economic decisions.
Editor's note: Knowledge Applied is a new podcast from the University of Chicago News Office. Each of its five episodes will take listeners inside the research of UChicago scholars helping reshape everyday life while tackling some of the biggest questions facing cities today.
Al Anderson owns Betsie Bay Kayak. Since 1984, he's been crafting boats made from wood and fiberglass. "There's just something about a kayak," Al says. "It's like a magic carpet in a way." Betsie Bay Kayaks are the opposite of the brightly-colored plastic kayaks you commonly see.