WEBINAR: Humanizing STEM -- How the Humanities Are Transforming Research, Teaching, and the Future of Higher Education
- Medievalitas
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
06/02/2026 | 2:00pm ET
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As higher education faces rapid technological change, emerging evidence shows that integrating the humanities—including theology and religious studies —with STEM disciplines leads to stronger educational outcomes, more creative research, and more effective professionals. In this EBSCO & Atla webinar, Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean in Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, makes the case that the humanities matter more, not less, in an age of AI, and that humanistic perspectives are essential to solving society’s most complex problems.
Speaker: Richard Utz, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Professor, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
Moderator: John F. Kutsko, Executive Director, Atla (American Theological Library Association)
You will learn about
· Georgia Tech’s nationally recognized work, including its “Humanizing STEM” initiative
· Cross-disciplinary collaborations producing work neither the sciences nor the humanities could achieve alone
· Humanistic inquiry in the age of AI
· The benefits of integrating the humanities and arts with STEM – including religion and religious literacy
About the Speaker
Richard Utz: Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Professor, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard Utz is an academic leader who thrives on creating the intellectual and structural frameworks within which innovative and meaningful education and scholarship may occur. As Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech, and previously as Interim Dean, Associate Dean for Faculty, and Chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Utz has advocated for holistic and inclusive educational practices, specifically the integration of the liberal arts with STEM disciplines. A champion of the teacher-scholar model and the public humanities, he has contributed to the national conversation on academic subjects for Inside Higher Ed, Issues in Science and Technology, University Business Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Higher Education, and medievalists.net.
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