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The Study of Humanities: An Even Bigger “Dividend”
âThe value of humanities-educated individuals is more than the money they make and the goods and services they produce. It is about the problems they help solve … The need…
Art Transforming Communities
Last year I co-developed and co-led a course titled  âStreet Smarts: The Future of Urban Livingâ with two fellow Union College students. The goal of the course was to explore art, health and fashion in urban environments, particularly…
Flying
Close your eyes. Open them and see sky. Feel that you are stuck on the earth. Recognize the desire inside of you to fly and dream. This dream, your dream of achieving more than is currently possible,…
Call for Papers: Extraordinary and Transformative Partnerships with the Arts & Humanities
What Crisis?: How Extraordinary Partnerships with the Arts and Humanities are Transforming the Way We Think, Work, and Live Jenny Gottstein, the Director of Games at The GoGame, a company that builds interactive experiences and high-tech…
The Impact of a Degree in Women and Gender Studies: A Student Perspective
Milinda Ajawara is a NY6 Think Tank “Next Generation” humanities contributor who worked on a project that focused on Women’s Studies (also known as Women’s and Gender Studies). Her project consisted of a series of interviews with Hamilton…
Wanna Become A Cook?: Eat Your Words!
Eat Your Words! is a New York 6 Think Tank Project of Tessa Jane “Flash” Kalinosky, with help from Professor Beck Krefting, Professor Dan Nathan, and Photographer Liv Anderson (and friends who eat the food she make). Tessa…
Whatâs Your Major? Exploring the Arts and Humanities ~ a student-run workshop
This past week, I hosted an event called, âWhatâs Your Major? Exploring the Arts and Humanities.â Originally, I had planned to host an alumni panel event at Union and invite students to come and hear from successful graduates…
“Dance Gets Me Into School”
To the teachers, the parents, the government: expand your definition of what is possible for the children you know. Let them make their own decisions, let them be inspired and…
“Employed Arts & Humanities Majors: They Exist!”
NY6 Think Tank Student Fellow, Emily Wong, speaks to an entire generation through her new blog titled “Pathways to Employment: Employed Arts & Humanities Majors: They Exist!” This is the goal of her blog: “….to quell my own…
Profit over People
As stated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, âWe do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.â This quote shows that we do not act in an…
Post Your Instagram Inspiration!
Follow, contribute and post your photography/art and your expression of why the arts and humanities are important to you! Go to your Instagram account, and follow NY6ThinkTank
Classics and Philosophy: Tools for Learning and Thinking About Anything I Could Ever Possibly Want To Do
As a New York Six Think Tank Fellow, my project focused on exploring the connection between an education in the arts and/or humanities and success outside of academia. Prior to beginning my project, I had seen for myself…
Morning, May the Odds Forever Be in Your Favor!
When youâre being sucked upward 38 floors in a high rise Manhattan, NY office by an oak wood decorated elevator you obtain this feeling that youâre moving up in the world and that you will soon accomplish great…
âThe Essay of Theseusâ: The Ethical Limitations of Editing
The ship of Theseus, dating back to the days of Heraclites, Socrates and Plato, is a thought experiment that goes something as follows: if a ship were to gradually decay, and were to thus require that each part…
Health, Humanities, and Medicine: A Student’s Journey
Why is the threesome of the HHM important? Growing up, one of the first words I remembering uttering was âhypertension,â as my father (the MD, PhD) had plenty scientific journals laying around the house. From a very young…
Biology & Philosophy: How Our Culture Shapes Our Knowledge
Originally posted posted on April 23, 2015 on “Arts and Humanities Connection.” Science differs from arts and literature, in that the knowledge gathered would exist whether humans studied it or not. Paintings, music, and novels require artists. DNA…
The Art World the Millennial Way
Food for Thought: What Does “Service” and “Leadership” Mean to You?
Pursuing a New Perspective in Medicine
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table