Harvard Club of New Mexico

The New Mexico Harvard Club presents:

Harvard Science Dean Christopher Stubbs

on "Generative AI in Education and Science"

January 24, 2024 5:30pm MT

Dean Stubbs will discuss how AI is affecting Science and  Education. How will we teach people to harness AI tools to enhance education? How do we preserve academic integrity and minimize job loss?

Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh will moderate this online lecture and discussion.

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The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools has sparked significant debate in both academic and nonacademic circles.  Amid growing concerns about academic integrity, job loss and AI safety there is a strong emphasis on exploring how we can utilize GAI for the betterment of students, workers and the scientific community.  How can we teach people to use these tools and in turn, leverage them to enhance education? How can GAI be harnessed to address major scientific challenges such as human health and climate change? Join our speaker and moderator as they delve into the transformative potential of AI and discuss the impact on Harvard, scientific research, and society at large.

Speaker: Christoper Stubbs, Dean of Science, Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Christopher Stubbs joined Harvard in 2003 as a Professor of Physics and of Astronomy. His research interests lie at the intersection of cosmology, particle physics, and gravitation. Stubbs received an International Baccalaureate diploma from the Tehran International School in 1975, a BSc in physics from the University of Virginia in 1981, and a PhD in physics from the University of Washington in 1988. 

His research career started with experimental tests of gravitation, performing precision measurements to explore possible modifications to gravity. He was on the faculty at UCSB, and was then member of the University of Washington faculty for a decade before moving to Harvard in 2003. He served as chair of Harvard’s Physics Department from 2007 to 2010. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiative in Research, the NASA Achievement Medal, and is a co-recipient (with other members of the High-z Supernova Team who discovered the accelerating expansion of the Universe) of the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Stubbs was awarded a McDonnell Centennial Fellowship, and a Packard Fellowship, and currently serves on the advisory panel for the Packard Foundation. He is an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, in connection with his interest in arms control and technical aspects of international security issues. 

Moderator:

Dean Amanda Claybaugh: Dean of Undergraduate Education, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of English.

Dean Claybaugh received her BA in English from Yale University in 1993 and her PhD in English from Harvard University in 2001. After teaching at Columbia University for nine years, she returned to Harvard in 2010.  She is on the faculty of the English department and was appointed Dean of Undergraduate Studies in May 2018.

Her teaching ranges widely, from Humanities 10 to the Gen Ed course she co-teaches on the Civil War. She teaches courses on the 19th century novel, on the 21st century novel, on the historical novel, and on the Bildungsroman.