Month: April 2024
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The Academic Minute for 2024.04.15-2024.04.19
The Academic Minute from 4.15 – 4.19 Monday Ken Gonzales-Day – Scripps College Queer-ish Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems ranging from lynching photographs to museum displays. His widely exhibited Erased Lynching series (ongoing), along with the publication…
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Sarah Marzen, Scripps College – Testing Interventions to Polarization in Opinion Dynamics Models
On Scripps College Week: How do you combat confirmation bias and polarization? Sarah Marzen, assistant professor of physics, has a suggestion. Sarah Marzen started in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics but quickly went over to theoretical biophysics and has been researching that ever since. She started as an undergraduate in physics at Caltech, winning the Haren Lee…
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Stacey Wood, Scripps College – Our Approach to Fraud Needs to Change
On Scripps College Week: Our approach to dealing with fraud needs an overhaul. Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones professor of psychology, puts together the evidence to show us why. Stacey Wood, Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist and the Molly Mason Jones Professor of Psychology at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. She received a B.A. in…
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Patrick Ferree, Scripps College – Unexpected Conflict in the Nucleus
On Scripps College Week: Why do some chromosomes act selfishly? Patrick Ferree, professor in the W. M. Keck Science Department, finds out. Patrick Ferree, a developmental geneticist at the Claremont Colleges, is studying how certain chromosomes selfishly hijack reproductive development to gain a transmission advantage. Dr. Patrick Ferree is a professor in the W. M.…
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Myriam Chancy, Scripps College – Caribbean Women in Literature
On Scripps College Week: Fiction can bring truth to the fore. Myriam Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Chair in the Humanities, looks into the history of Caribbean women. Myriam J.A. Chancy, Ph.D. (Iowa) is a Guggenheim Fellow, and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities Chair at Scripps College. Chancy is the author of…
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Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College – Queer-ish
On Scripps College Week: Photography can reveal many hidden things about the people who lived centuries ago. Ken Gonzales-Day, professor and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Art, looks back at some. Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems ranging…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.04.15)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.04.15 Scripps College Week Monday Ken Gonzales-Day, professor and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Art, explores how photography can reveal many hidden things from the past. Tuesday Myriam Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Chair in the Humanities, looks into the history of Caribbean women through their writing.…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.04.08-2024.04.12
The Academic Minute from 4.08 – 4.12 Monday Moira Marsh – Indiana University Bloomington Celestial Creatures and the Mythology Behind the Solar Eclipse Moira Marsh is a folklorist and librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. She earned both her Ph.D. in folklore and M.L.S. from Indiana University and has published research on folklore and humor theory.…
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Annabelle Roberts, University of Texas at Austin – Why We Hate to Wait
We’re all tired of waiting. Annabelle Roberts, assistant professor of marketing at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, says we’re most impatient right before we get what we want. Annabelle Roberts is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. Prior…
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Eranda Jayawickreme, Wake Forest University – How Can You Become a Good Thinker?
How can you become a good thinker? Eranda Jayawickreme, Harold W. Tribble professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, uses some brainpower to find out. Eranda Jayawickreme is the Harold W. Tribble Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Fellow at the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. He is a personality psychologist…