Category: This Week

  • USC Dornsife Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.18)

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    USC Dornsife Week on The Academic Minute 2019.03.18 Monday, March 18th Moh El-Naggar discusses how microorganisms could help us think big. Tuesday, March 19th Megan Carroll digs how gay fathers can be incidental activists. Wednesday, March 20th David Newman explores which political group finds the most meaning in life. Thursday, March 21st Daniel Benjamin examines…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.03.11-03.15 – Trinity College Week

    The Academic Minute for 2019.03.11-03.15 – Trinity College Week

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    The Academic Minute from 03.11 – 03.15 Monday, March 11th Elizabeth Casserly – Trinity College Vision and Communication Elizabeth Casserly began her study of human language and cognition as an undergraduate Linguistics major at Yale University. Since then, she has volunteered as a research assistant for a speech-oriented group of electrical engineers at MIT, worked…

  • Trinity College Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.11)

    Trinity College Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.11)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.03.11 Monday, March 11th Elizabeth Casserly looks to understand the processes that enable us to produce language so fluently. Tuesday, March 12th William Church digs into cell death and Parkinson’s Disease. Wednesday, March 13th Sarah Raskin delves into prospective memory. Thursday, March 14th Dan Lloyd explores if music is…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.03.04-03.08

    The Academic Minute for 2019.03.04-03.08

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    The Academic Minute from 03.04 – 03.08 Monday, March 4th Steven Pressman – Colorado State University Infrastructure Spending Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado and Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In addition, he serves as North American…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.04)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.03.04 Monday, March 4th Steven Pressman of Colorado State University examines if infrastructure spending will be a priority for Congress. Tuesday, March 5th Wesley Wildman of Boston University discusses using computer simulations to study religion. Wednesday, March 6th Robert Brown of the United States Air Force Academy delves into…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.02.25-03.01

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    Swarthmore College Week from 02.25 – 03.01 Monday, February 25th Syon Bhanot – Swarthmore College Putting Behavioral Science to Work Syon Bhanot is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College, studying behavioral and public economics. Syon obtained his PhD in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2015. In addition to his doctoral…

  • Swarthmore College Week on The Academic Minute (2019.02.25)

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    Swarthmore College Week on The Academic Minute 2019.02.25 Monday, February 25th Syon Bhanot examines how behavioral science can have a positive impact on cities. Tuesday, February 26th Syd Carpenter discusses using art to bring the stories of African American farmers to life. Wednesday, February 27th Edwin Mayorga delves into the mental health of Latinx youth.…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.02.18-02.22

    The Academic Minute for 2019.02.18-02.22

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    Academic Minute from 02.18 – 02.22 Monday, February 18th Alicia Simmons – Colgate University Politicians and Dissent I’m a social psychologist focused on the intersections of media, race, and politics. I study how the American news media shapes audience members’ racial attitudes and public policy preferences, and how public opinion ultimately shapes the direction of…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.02.18)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.02.18 Monday, February 18th Alicia Simmons of Colgate University explores how hard it is to ask a politician a tough question today. Tuesday, February 19th Kurt Amsler of the New York Institute of Technology discusses preventing the imminent physician-scientist shortage. Wednesday, February 20th Jennifer Harman of Colorado State University…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.02.11-02.15 – Arcadia University Week

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    Academic Minute from 02.11 – 02.15 Monday, February 11th Jill Pederson – Aracdia University Understanding Authorship in Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi Jill Pederson is Associate Professor of Art History at Arcadia University, specializing in European art with an emphasis on Italian painting, sculpture, and graphic work from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.  Her research…