Faculty Recognition
Anya Receives New Directions Fellowship
Uju Anya, associate professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a Mellon Foundation grant to support a New Directions Fellowship. Anya teaches world language programs with a focus on helping African American students see more explicit links between their ethno-racial backgrounds and classroom materials, topics and curriculum. Through the fellowship, she will seek training in a new field — entertainment technology and game design — to create multilingual game-based experiences in online virtual reality platforms for Black youth from the U.S., Brazil, Colombia and across the Americas.
Uju Anya
Cullen Addresses Group Reasoning, Polarization as Dean’s Innovation Scholar
The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences has named Simon Cullen, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Philosophy, a Dean’s Innovation Scholar. Through his fellowship, Cullen will develop and test pedagogical innovations that leverage Large Language Models like GPT-4 to train informal reasoning skills. Cullen’s course “Dangerous Ideas in Science and Society” has become one of the fastest-growing General Education classes at CMU. “Dangerous Ideas’ is grounded in the belief that respectful, open and rigorous discussion is the best tool for deeply understanding arguments and strengthening our beliefs on virtually any topic,” Cullen said.
Simon Cullen
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