Month: March 2018
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Edward Guinan, Villanova University – Growing Food on Mars
Could we grow food on Mars? Edward Guinan, professor of astronomy at Villanova University, answers this question. Dr. Guinan is a pioneer in astronomy and space science research that studies our Sun, stars, and planets inside and outside our solar system as well as the search for potential life on these planets. His recent research…
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Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia University – Growing Parolee Population
We know prison populations are increasing; how about the parolee population? Vincent Schiraldi, senior research scientist at Columbia University, says the prison population is only half the story. Vincent Schiraldi has extensive experience in public life, founding the policy think tank, the Justice Policy Institute, then moving to government as director of the juvenile corrections…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2018.03.05)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2018.03.05 Monday, March 5th Vincent Schiraldi of Columbia University explores the growing parolee population and how it increases the prison population. Tuesday, March 6th Edward Guinan of Villanova University discusses growing food on Mars. Wednesday, March 7th Adam McLain of SUNY Polytechnic Institute discovers a new species of lemur.…
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The Academic Minute for 2018.02.26-03.02
Academic Minute from 2.26 – 3.02 Monday, February 26th Christian Miller – Wake Forest University The Character Gap Christian B. Miller holds a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of…
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Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University – The Water Cooler Event of 1983: The Day After
Does art predict the future? Marsha Gordon, professor of film studies in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, says a nuclear disaster movie from the 1980s rings true today. Marsha Gordon is the author, most recently, of Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is…
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Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas – Child Marriage
Why is child marriage still allowed in every state in the U.S.? Nicholas Syrett, professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas, explores the reasons. Nicholas L. Syrett studies gender, sexuality, and childhood in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. He is a coeditor of Age in America: The Colonial Era…