Category: This Week

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.03)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.03)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.04.03   Monday Sarah Abreveya Stein, professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles, listens to voices of the past for stories from World War II that need to be told.   Tuesday Dawn Brancati, senior lecturer in the political science department at Yale University, looks into an unintended…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.27-2023.03.31

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.27-2023.03.31

    The Academic Minute from 3.27 – 3.31 Monday Moussa N’Gom – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Optics: The Future of Computation and Medicine Moussa N’Gom is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Following an early career in industry as a senior research scientist in ultrafast lasers, optical…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.27)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.27)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.03.27   Monday Moussa N’Gom, assistant professor in the department of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explains how optics is the future.   Tuesday Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish studies and professor of history at the University of South California, explores the history of…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.20-2023.03.24

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.20-2023.03.24

    The Academic Minute from 3.20 – 3.24 Monday Oladele Ogunseitan – University of California, Irvine Disentangling the Worldwide Web of E-Waste and Climate Change Oladele (Dele) Ogunseitan holds the University of California Presidential Chair at Irvine where he served for more than a decade as Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Population Health…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.20)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.03.20)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.03.20   Monday Oladele Ogunseitan, professor in the department of population health and disease prevention at the University of California, Irvine, looks into combating e-waste as a climate change issue.   Tuesday Jerald Podair, professor of history at Lawrence University, explains how being a sore loser in a presidential…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.13-2023.03.17

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.13-2023.03.17

    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)

    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

    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)

    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

    The Academic Minute for 2023.02.27-2023.03.03

    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…