What You're Doing, Where We're Going
Students in Prof. Claire Stewart’s Culinary Improvisation course are reflecting on their cooking techniques and the foods they use for weekly improvisational challenges in the kitchen. We were impressed with the detailed descriptions of their process, accompanied by photographs they took themselves. … Continue reading this post
FIRST YEAR LEARNING COMMUNITY: ”The Art of Food” HMGT1203/1204 & ARTH1100
“The Art of Food” is an exciting learning community between Professor Garcelon’s Culinary I, Professor Jacus’s Baking & Pastry I, and Professor Cheng’s History of Photography courses. In their course, their students explore whether or not it’s possible to appreciate food like a work of art and how food can be viewed in terms of aesthetic categories like beauty and taste. … Continue reading this post
#TheGuide project, organized by Professor Karen Goodlad in the Hospitality Management department and Professor Laura Westengard in the English department, and created by their students, offers the OpenLab community a friendly neighborhood guide to local resources ranging from information about college skills, to tours of Brooklyn Bridge Park, to where to find the best local grub!… Continue reading this post
Our Places: How We Commemorate
This project is associated with Mary Sue Donsky’s LAW 2301 course, Estates, Trusts, and Wills. Students researched a commemoration for someone who had died, and posted photos and descriptions of the commemoration sites, which were located in neighborhoods all over the city. … Continue reading this post
Skateboard Filming – Muhammad Floyd
Another site from Jennifer Sears’s Advanced Career Writing course, Muhammad Floyd’s blog is about his passion for making skating videos. He writes helpful reviews and provides advice about equipment and software. We especially like how he includes video reviews he has created himself. … Continue reading this post
Robots in Space – Husaan Iqbal
Husaan Iqbal created this blog as a project in Jennifer Sears’s Advanced Career Writing course, which we’ve written about elsewhere. A mechanical engineering major and aircraft maintenance engineer, Husaan writes enthusiastically about air and space travel, and the rapidly advancing field of robotics. … Continue reading this post
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