"Time is Money?" Innovative, New Interdisciplinary Lecture

We’re delighted to announce our innovative, new BA lecture, “Time is Money?”

The course is co-taught by Profs. Anna Elsner (left) and Jamie Gloor (right) from the University of St.Gallen’s Conextual Studies and School of Management (respectively).

Students started the course with a guided tour with curator Cathérine Hug through the Kunsthaus Zurich’s exhibit, “Time,” followed by an interdisciplinary panel with artist Sinzo Aanza, ETH physicists and mathmaticians Caroline Dorn and Josef Teichmann, alongside Profs. Elsner and Gloor.

Course Teaser Video

We’re delighted to welcome a diverse group of students including backgrounds in law/politics, management, contextual studies, and economics—as well as nationalities such as Swiss, French, Indian, and exchange students from Babson College in the United States. These students will present and moderate key ideas in the course, visit St.Gallen hospice (to explore the time before we die and ideas of care time), experiment to see how different kinds of music affect our subjective ideas of time and time to complete tasks, and more!

Don’t Call My Kid Fat! Parents Want Doctors to Talk About ‘Unhealthy Weight’

Rudd Center research published in article on Time Magazine website. 

With 2 million U.S. children classified as extremely obese, it’s impossible to ignore kids’ growing girth. But researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University are suggesting that there are better, more sensitive ways to discuss the issue with parents and children.

“Many people find the term ‘fat’ to be pejorative and judgmental,” says Rebecca Puhl, the study’s lead author and Rudd’s director of research. “A lot of the time, providers have positive intentions, but the language they use can be seen as blaming, accusatory and not helpful.”

Read full article here.