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When Lois Calian Trautvetter arrived at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy in 1992 as a postdoc, her interests and career path were all over the map.
“Something is changing with Trump,” Dan P. McAdams, a professor at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, told The New York Times.
Illinois’ law requiring media literacy education in high schools, the first of its kind in the nation, has been implemented unevenly, according to a study co-authored by School of Education and Social Policy alumnus Michael Spikes (PhD23).
AI assistants like Claude can appear to have emotions, whether by apologizing profusely for making a mistake or expressing frustration when stuck. So, what happens to humans when AI appears to have feelings?
When Lois Calian Trautvetter arrived at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy in 1992 as a postdoc, her interests and career path were all over the map.
Selena Lasota and Nicole Beardsley Montag took very different paths after graduating from the School of Education and Social Policy in 2018, but both kept human relationships at the center of their lives.