Engaging science across cultures: building a research community of Buddhist monastics and undergraduate and faculty mentors
David Goldberg,
George Poppitz,
Sayli Sonsurkar
et al.
Abstract:Emory University has had a long relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. Recently the Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholars, who are Tibetan Buddhist monastics that reside and take courses on Emory’s campus, were enrolled in a novel science research course designed and taught by undergraduate students at Emory. The goal of this study was to build a research community of Buddhist monastics who worked alongside undergraduate and graduate mentors to complete projects in R… Show more
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