Category: Academic Minute

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.13-2023.03.17

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.13-2023.03.17

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    The Academic Minute from 3.13 – 3.17 Monday Christopher Jeansonne – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Gameful Learning Christopher Jeansonne is a media educator, a media maker, and a scholar focusing on critical media pedagogy. His research involves practical and theoretical investigations of pedagogical methods that help students explore how identities are established within and articulated through…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.13)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.13)

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    RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WEEK on The Academic Minute 2023.03.13   Monday Christopher Jeansonne, lecturer of communication and media, says games be a useful component of learning in the classroom.   Tuesday Brett Fajen, associate dean for academic affairs and professor, looks at how we navigate spaces by tracking our eye movements.   Wednesday Aparna Gupta,…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.06-2023.03.10

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.06-2023.03.10

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    The Academic Minute from 3.06 – 3.10 Monday Lisa Jean Moore – Purchase College Spider Goats Lisa Jean Moore is a medical sociologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. Her scholarship is located at the intersections of sociology of health and medicine, science and…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.06)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.06)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.03.06   Monday Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY distinguished professor of sociology and gender studies at SUNY Purchase, looks for a more sustainable source of silk.   Tuesday Michel Bruneau, SUNY distinguished professor in the department of civil, structural, and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, examines if positives…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.02.27-2023.03.03

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    The Academic Minute from 2.27 – 3.03 Monday Toria Herd – Penn State University The Teen Mental Health Crisis Continues to Worsen Dr. Toria Herd received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Virginia Tech in 2021. She received her M.S. in Developmental Psychology at Virginia Tech and her B.A. in Psychology from the State University…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.02.27)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.02.27   Monday Toria Herd, postdoctoral research fellow at Penn State University, discusses the mental health issues facing one group.   Tuesday Rachel Hadas, board of governor’s professor of English at Rutgers University, examines what we can learn from thousands of years ago while looking at the polarization we…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.02.20-2023.02.24

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    The Academic Minute from 2.20 – 2.24 Monday Pankhuri Malhotra – University of Oklahoma Finding Brand Alliances Among Seemingly Unlikely Partners Dr. Pankhuri is a computational social scientist with an interest in graph-based methods for improving and scaling marketing research. Her current research applies combined methods from marketing, network and data science for mining user…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.02.20)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.02.20   Monday Pankhuri Malhotra, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oklahoma, looks at how brand can find success by partnering with a disparate partner.   Tuesday Barbara Combs, professor of sociology and chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice at Kennesaw State University, looks…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.02.13-2023.02.17

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    The Academic Minute from 2.13 – 2.17 Monday Heather Welch – University of California, Santa Cruz Illuminating Dark Fishing Vessels at Sea Heather Welch is a project scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, and is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She uses models to understand how the environment drives the…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.02.13)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.02.13   Monday Heather Welch, project scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, looks to help illuminate some of the issues faced in locating fishing vessel who are hiding their locations in the open ocean.   Tuesday Parichehr Kazemi, 5th-year PhD candidate in political science at the University…