The Essential Function of Universities | Nathan Urban | TEDxLehighRiver

As provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Lehigh University, Nathan Urban, PhD, leverages his expertise as a leader in higher education to help us understand the role that research universities must play in our evolution and development as a society, culture and economy. The university's role in doing research that creates new knowledge and preparing graduates to tackle problems that do not yet exist is, from his perspective, the path to a more secure future. Previous to Lehigh University, Nathan was a Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, the Associate Director of the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, and co-Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh; before that he was the Frederick Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, served as Head of the Department of Biological Sciences and as interim Provost.  Nathan Urban is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Lehigh University. Prior to joining Lehigh, Urban was Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, the Associate Director of the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute, and co-Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Pitt, Nathan was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where he was the Frederick Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences, served as Head of the Department of Biological Sciences (2010-2014) and interim Provost from 2014-2015. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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