by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Subra Suresh Scientific discoveries and engineering innovation are accelerating the unprecedented convergence of the physical, digital and biological worlds to produce technological advances that are poised to disrupt and transform the daily lives of ordinary citizens...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Leszek Borysiewicz The topic of this presentation is immediately current, even as I write this short summary. We sit at the beginning of May 2019 in the UK without any resolution to the long-running national debate that sur-rounds Brexit. This debate has polarized...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Alice P. Gast The sometimes-surprising trends of the last three years, from the rise of populism to the distrust of expertise, have led many to accuse the global elite, and academics in particular, of being out of touch with society and stuck in narrow “echo...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Jaeho Yeom CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. The 21st century is transforming the social modes of human civiliza-tion at an unprecedented scale and speed. Digitization is changing the world. The massive transformation of working behaviour,...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Andrea Schenker-Wicki THE EVOLUTION OF UNIVERSITIES. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century of the Common Era, the public education system almost completely disappeared, with just a few church schools remaining. It was not until centuries later, when...
by LW | Jan 1, 2018 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Tim Killeen 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in Cambridge, new...