This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.03)

This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.03

Monday

Jill Barton, professor and director of legal writing at the University of Miami School of Law, explores the changes to the writing styles of Supreme Court justices.

Tuesday

Han Xiao, director of SynthX Center and associate professor within the department of chemistry at Rice University, discusses a possible solution to degrading plastics more efficiently.

Wednesday

Gunnar Babcock, lecturer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, explores the fields that direct us in life.

Thursday

Sally Harris, teaching professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, leans into storytelling to teach the detectives.

Friday

Jared Del Rosso, associate professor and chair of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver, examines this loss and the meanings behind the disappearance of the whip-poor-wills.