Category: Academic Minute
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.07.22)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.07.22 Monday Loren Henderson, associate professor of public policy and incoming director of the school of public policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, centers the voices of black farmers. Tuesday Sarah Raskin, Charles A. Dana professor of psychology and neuroscience at Trinity College, details other…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.07.15-2024.07.19
The Academic Minute from 7.15 – 7.19 Monday Claire Cahen – Occidental College Selling Student Futures Claire Cahen (she/ her/ hers) is an urbanist, researcher and educator living and working in Los Angeles. She researches and writes about municipal austerity and public sector union renewal—how workers are responding to decades of cuts to public services,…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.07.15)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.07.15 Monday Claire Cahen, assistant professor of urban and environmental policy, says which schools are taking on most of the burden of a school district’s debt might not be spread evenly. Tuesday Zachary Silver, assistant professor of psychology, looks into how our dogs see us. Wednesday…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.07.08-2024.07.12
The Academic Minute from 7.08 – 7.12 Monday Stacy Peebles – Centre College What Are Our Newest War Stories? Stacey Peebles is H. W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Associate Professor, Chair of English, and Chair of Film Studies at Centre College. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier’s Experience…
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Megs Gendreau, Centre College – Are Athletes Really That Special?
On Centre College Week: Why are we interested in the lives of athletes? Megs Gendreau, associate professor of philosophy and environmental studies, explains why. Megs Gendreau’s main research focuses on how we understand human selves and human values in the face of radical climate change, but she enjoys sports and periodically gets to write about…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.07.08)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.07.08 Monday Stacey Peebles, H. W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Associate Professor and Chair of English, looks for the war stories of today. Tuesday Ravi Radhakrishnan, associate professor of economics and business, says more money than ever before is going to lobbying. Wednesday Megs…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.07.01-2024.07.05
The Academic Minute from 7.01 – 7.05 Monday Lawson Wulsin – University of Cincinnati What is Toxic Stress? Lawson Wulsin, MD, is professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. His subspecialty is psychosomatic medicine, and he has focused his research and teaching on various mind-body questions, such as depression and heart…
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Rachel Noorda, Portland State University – Reading Behavior Versus Reading Identity for Gen Z and Millennials
Do you consider yourself a reader? Rachel Noorda, associate professor and director of book publishing at Portland State University, says many don’t when they should. Rachel Noorda is associate professor of English and director of book publishing at Portland State University. She and her colleague Kathi Inman Berens study crossmedia consumption and identity behaviors. Reading…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.07.01)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.07.01 Monday Lawson Wulsin, professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati, examines why and what to do about toxic stress. Tuesday Kylie King, director of institutional effectiveness and research faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh, says we must support those who might be blocked from…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.06.24-2024.06.28
The Academic Minute from 6.24 – 6.28 Monday Dan Jaffee – Portland State University Dependence on Bottled Water Worsens Social Inequality Daniel Jaffee is an environmental and rural sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University. His research examines conflicts over water privatization and commodification; the social, environmental, and economic impacts of bottled…