Category: This Week

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.25)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.25)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.09.25 University of St. Thomas Week   Monday Bryana French, associate professor of psychology, determines the framework to heal racial trauma.   Tuesday Chelda Smith Kondo, assistant professor of education, explores the pedagogy of humanization.   Wednesday Mahmoud Kabalan, assistant professor of electrical engineering, delves into microgrids.   Thursday…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.09.18-2023.09.22

    The Academic Minute for 2023.09.18-2023.09.22

    The Academic Minute from 9.18 – 9.22 Monday Elizabeth Patton – University of Maryland Baltimore County The Home Office and Work-Life Balance Elizabeth Patton is media historian interested in discourses of gender, race and class in the history of media, representations of urbanism and suburbanism in popular culture, and the impact of communication technologies on…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.18)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.18)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.09.18 University of Maryland Baltimore County Week   Monday Elizabeth Patton, associate professor of media and communication studies, examines how we portray work/life balance at home in media.   Tuesday Michael Nance, associate professor of philosophy, takes a philosophical approach to revolutions.   Wednesday Renee Lambert-Bretiere, associate professor of…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.09.11-2023.09.15

    The Academic Minute for 2023.09.11-2023.09.15

    The Academic Minute from 9.11 – 9.15 Monday Lewis Davis – Union College COVID on Campus Lewis Davis is the Thomas Armstrong Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at Union College.  He has over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, with recent work addressing the religious, climatic, and linguistic roots of individualism and its…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.11)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.11)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.09.11   Monday Lewis Davis, Thomas Armstrong professor of economics at Union College, explores why COVID rates on campuses didn’t always follow the socioeconomic script.   Tuesday Judith DeSena, professor of sociology at St. John’s University, discusses the response of two neighborhoods in Brooklyn to the COVID-19 lockdowns.  …

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.09.04-2023.09.08

    The Academic Minute for 2023.09.04-2023.09.08

    The Academic Minute from 9.04 – 9.08 Monday Emily Rosado-Solomon – Babson College Mental Health and Work Emily Rosado-Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College. She received her PhD at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, and previously served on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach. Her research…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.04)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.09.04)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.09.04   Monday Emily Rosado-Solomon, assistant professor of management at Babson College, explores what makes employees feel good or bad.   Tuesday Darrell Kaufman, Regents’ professor of earth and environmental sciences at Northern Arizona University, determines if this summer was as unprecedented as it felt.   Wednesday Lars Tragardh,…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.08.28-2023.09.01

    The Academic Minute for 2023.08.28-2023.09.01

    The Academic Minute from 8.28 – 9.01 Monday Megan Benka-Coker – Gettysburg College Evaluating Real-World Global Health Interventions Dr. Benka-Coker is an Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences Department at Gettysburg College. She is an environmental epidemiologist and global health researcher. Her research primarily focuses on household energy and cooking, evaluating cleaner-burning cookstove technologies and…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.08.28)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.08.28)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.08.28   Monday Megan Benka-Coker, assistant professor of health sciences, examines one home heating method with the potential to help cut down the risks in hard to reach areas.   Tuesday Jennifer Bloomquist, professor of linguistics and Africana studies, determines explains why the representation of the characters on the…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.08.21-2023.08.25

    The Academic Minute for 2023.08.21-2023.08.25

    The Academic Minute from 8.21 – 8.25 Monday Farzin Lotfi-Jam – Cornell University A Recursive History of Urban Simulation Farzin Lotfi-Jam is Assistant Professor in the department of Architecture at Cornell AAP where he leads the Realtime Urbanism Lab housed within the Center for Cities. His lab connects advances in computation, communication, and immersive media to…