# Professor David Yermack offers insights into how he develops and updates the curriculum for his course on blockchain

1 Faculty News September 17, 2019 ![Education Dive Logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Education%20Dive%20Logo%20192%20x%20144.png?itok=2gJ-V5ua)>

Excerpt from [Education Dive](https://www.educationdive.com/news/to-keep-up-with-blockchain-colleges-look-across-disciplines/563031/) -- "'To keep the attention of all these students from such diverse backgrounds is a challenge for sure,' [Yermack](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack) said. 'It forces you as a professor to really think about, "How am I going to explain this and make it seem universal enough that people from both a philosophy background and an engineering background should care about it?"'"

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