Humanity + Technology - "Finding Nature in the Games We Play"

What if starting up a game could offer us as meaningful a natural experience as going outdoors? Games, especially digital ones, are frequently dismissed as frivolous, arcane, or violent, and people tend to picture those who play them as antisocial boys sitting hunched indoors. This lecture contends that games today offer unique and playfully persuasive opportunities not only to engage directly with environmental issues, but also to foster moments of empathy, loss, care, experimentation, and optimism – ways of seeing and dealing with our troubled world anew.

LTU's Robofest Online World Championships under way

The 2020 Robofest World Championship, the only global robotics competition happening anywhere this year in this pandemic-wracked world, is under way.

Idea Factory: "Radical Inclusion in Tech" by Dr. Marlo Rencher

Please join the College of Arts and Sciences for the first Idea Factory lecture of the 2020-21 year.

COVID-19 Modeling

Since the first noted case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the disease has spread across the globe. To date, it has infected almost 8 million people and killed 400,000 worldwide.

LTU's Robofest goes online--making it the only robotics competition in the world this year

Like so many other educational activities, Lawrence Technological University’s Robofest World Championship is moving online this year.

Pandemic meets robotics in LTU student's hand sanitizer dispenser

It’s certainly hard to find any fun in the many precautions demanded by the Coronavirus pandemic. But a computer science student at Lawrence Technological University has managed to come up with one for youthful robot builders.