Category: Academic Minute
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.07.04)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.07.04 Monday, July 4th Jay Zagorsky, economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, says more and more Americans are choosing to shoot off fireworks than ever before. Tuesday, July 5th TaLisa Carter, assistant professor in the department of justice, law & criminology at American University, takes…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.06.27-2022.07.01
The Academic Minute from 06.27 – 07.01 Monday, June 27th Trudi Jacobson – North-West University Students Reflect on Their Roles and Responsibilities as Wikipedia Editors Trudi Jacobson holds the rank of Distinguished Librarian Emerita at the University at Albany. Her career has focused on the intersections of pedagogy and information literacy. She is the co-author…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.06.27)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.06.27 Monday, June 27th Trudi Jacobson, extraordinary professor at North-West University, explores what responsibilities authors have on a public forum. Tuesday, June 28th Zachary McDowell, assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses representation on Wikipedia. Wednesday, June 29th Naniette…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.06.20-2022.06.24
The Academic Minute from 06.20 – 06.24 Monday, June 20th Thomas Shohfi – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Are Immigrant Workers Impacted by Turmoil In Their Home Countries? Shohfi is an assistant professor of accounting and finance at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research published in top accounting and…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.06.20)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.06.20 Monday, June 20th Thomas Shohfi, assistant professor of accounting and finance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, discusses how immigrants are affected by turmoil in their home countries. Tuesday, June 21st Marisa Zapata, associate professor of land-use planning at Portland State University, examines what composing music teach us about…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.06.13-2022.06.17
The Academic Minute from 06.13 – 06.17 Monday, June 13th C. Michael White – University of Connecticut What’s In Your Dietary Supplement His research interests are in drug, dietary supplement, and substances of abuse safety and effectiveness. His over 440 publications in biomedical journals have been cited over 14,000 times and covered by major…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.06.13)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.06.13 Monday, June 13th C. Michael White, distinguished professor and chair of the school of pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, determines what’s really in your dietary supplement. Tuesday, June 14th Yuka Sasaki, research professor in the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University,…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.06.06-2022.06.10
The Academic Minute from 06.06 – 06.10 Monday, June 6th Vaishali Raval – Miami University Conversations About Race Vaishali V. Raval, PhD is professor of psychology and affiliate of global and intercultural studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research centers on three interrelated areas: i) cultural and contextual foundations of parenting with…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.06.06)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.06.06 Monday, June 6th Vaishali Raval, professor of psychology at Miami University, explores if white families are having conversations about race with their children. Tuesday, June 7th Christopher Junium, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Syracuse University, explains why the asteroid that heralded the end…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.05.30-2022.06.03
The Academic Minute from 05.30 – 06.03 Monday, May 30th Birol Yesilada – Portland State University Securing the Smart Grid Birol A. Yeşilada is the Director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and is a professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University (PSU). He also holds the holder…