Month: August 2017

  • Dae-Young Kim featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    Dae-Young Kim featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1402), Bob has selected…

  • Megan Dobro, Hampshire College – Bacteria

    Megan Dobro, Hampshire College – Bacteria

    Bacteria is everywhere, but how much do we know about it? Megan Dobro, assistant professor of human biology at Hampshire College, explores how we’re learning more about these tiny machines. Megan Dobro, assistant professor of human biology, received her B.S. from Bridgewater State University and her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the California Institute of…

  • Steven Stahler, University of California Berkeley – Our Sun Has A Twin

    Steven Stahler, University of California Berkeley – Our Sun Has A Twin

    Our sun might have a twin. Steven Stahler, associate research astronomer at the University of California Berkeley, examines binary stars and whether our sun’s twin is still out there in the universe. 1992-             Associate Research Astronomer; U. C. Berkeley 1991               Visiting Professor; Osservatorio di Arcetri, Florence 1990-1991     Associate Professor of Physics; MIT 1985-1990     Assistant Professor…

  • Ray Raymond, SUNY Ulster – Balanced Internationalism

    Ray Raymond, SUNY Ulster – Balanced Internationalism

    Navigating the world is becoming more complicated for the U.S. Ray Raymond, professor of government and history at the State University of New York Ulster, has four lessons for the country to heed. Dr. Ray Raymond is a former British diplomat who held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale University in American History. He is Associate…