How to pronounce "humanities"

and was saying, "Let me see how I can work with them.

Let me get the staff to help me out."

It was that connecting.

That young man today is actually a faculty member M.D./Ph.D. in neuroengineering at Duke.

Give him a big hand for that.

(Applause)

And so the significance is that we have now developed this model

that is helping us, not only finally with evaluation, assessing what works.

And what we learned was that we needed to think about redesigning courses.

And so we redesigned chemistry, we redesigned physics.

But now we are looking at redesigning the humanities and social sciences.

Because so many students are bored in class.

Do you know that?

Many students, K-12 and in universities,

don't want to just sit there and listen to somebody talk.

They need to be engaged.

And so we have done -- if you look at our website at the Chemistry Discovery Center,

you'll see people coming from all over the country

to look at how we are redesigning courses,

having an emphasis on collaboration, use of technology,

using problems out of our biotech companies on our campus,