Category: This Week
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.03.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.03.10 Monday Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geosciences and environmental studies at Lawrence University, describes the downsides of the Enlightenment. Tuesday Cara Furman, associate professor of early childhood education at Hunter College of the City University of New York, discusses practical wisdom for ethical decision making for teachers.…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.03.03-2025.03.07
The Academic Minute from 3.03 – 3.07 Monday Jo Mackiewicz – Iowa State University Learning Skilled Trades in the Workplace Jo Mackiewicz is a professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University. She studies the communication of pedagogical and workplace interactions. She’s written several books and numerous articles, published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication, Journal…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.03.03)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.03.03 Monday Jo Mackiewicz, professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, explains how to learn new skills in the workplace. Tuesday Grace Moore, associate professor of English at the University of Otago, explores fire in a literary context. Wednesday Matthew Redmond, Marie Curie…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.02.24-2025.02.28
The Academic Minute from 2.24 – 2.28 Monday Erik Van Aken – Rocky Mountain College Chaos and Cause Erik Van Aken is Instructor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Rocky Mountain College. His research focuses on the metaphysics of causality, scientific methodology, and debates on objectivity. Tuesday Ann Kronrod – University of Massachusetts Lowell What Can…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.24)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.24 Monday Erik Van Aken, instructor of philosophy and religious studies at Rocky Mountain College, explains why chaos theory has changed how we think about certain ideas in physics. Tuesday Ann Kronrod, associate professor of marketing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, reads up on the language…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.02.17-2025.02.21
The Academic Minute from 2.17 – 2.21 Monday James Druckman – University of Rochester Does American Political Hostility Threaten Democracy? James Druckman is a professor of political science at the University of Rochester and has published approximately 200 articles and book chapters in political science, communication, economics, science, and psychology journals. He has authored, co-authored,…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.17)
University of Rochester Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.17 Monday James Druckman, the Martin Brewer Anderson professor of political science, explores whether democracy under threat in today’s political climate. Tuesday John Tarduno, the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of geophysics in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, details how we’re still making…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.02.10-2025.02.14
The Academic Minute from 2.10 – 2.14 Monday Anya Jabour – University of Montana Katharine Bement Davis, “Childless Cat Lady”? Anya Jabour is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana, where she teaches US women’s history, the history of American families and children, and the history of gender and sexuality in the US.…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.10 Monday Anya Jabour, Regent’s professor of history at the University of Montana in Missoula, examines how motherhood was a big topic in the news in the last year. Tuesday Leia Minaker, associate professor in the school of planning at the University of Waterloo, examines how junk…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.02.03-2025.02.07
The Academic Minute from 2.03 – 2.07 Monday Jill Barton – University of Miami The U.S. Supreme Court’s Casual Writing Style Jill Barton is the author of three books on legal writing. Her latest, The Supreme Guide to Writing (Oxford University Press 2024), analyzed 10,000 pages of U.S. Supreme Court opinions to pinpoint grammar and…