Tuesday, 25 Feb 2025
The Past, Present, and Sustainable Future of Our Infrastructural Networks
2025 Symposium on Sustainability Keynote Dr. Deb Chachra, PhD, is a distinguished materials scientist and professor at Olin College of Engineering. She specializes in biological materials and infrastructure, with a keen interest in engineering education. Dr. Chachra is the author of the book How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (2023), which explores the intricate systems that underpin our daily lives.
Is There More to Mental Health? Let’s Discuss Flourishing, Suffering, and Spirituality
2025 Veritas Forum Dr. Warren Kinghorn, a psychiatrist from Duke University, believes that modern mental health has produced helpful medications and practices but that the benefits are limited by an overly individualistic and mechanistic view of what a person is. Using the alternate view of a person posited by Thomas Aquinas, a Christian thinker, Dr. Kinghorn suggests reframing how we think about mental health without discarding the...