Dr. Dennis O’Rourke featured on The Best of Our Knowledge
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As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts…
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Anne Warlaumont, UC Merced – Positive Feedback Loop
Studying the communicative relationship that parents share with their children is a great way to understand how kids learn to interact. Anne Warlaumont, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Merced, is studying positive feedback loops, or the way…
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A Look Behind the Scenes!
Founded in 1837, Mt. Holyoke College is a big part of The Academic Minute! This glorious architecture houses the offices of Academic Minute host Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, and some of the production work and recording occur in a nearby audio…
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Jonathan Kotula, Harvard – Engineering Bacteria
Imagine the medical possibilities of monitoring a person’s digestive tract from the inside out. With a team of scientists from Dr. Pamela Silver’s lab at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jonathan Kotula and his colleagues including Dr.…
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Keith Johnson, Oakton Community College – Microaggression
Racism isn’t always an overt display of prejudiced behavior or language. Microaggression is a term coined by Chester Middlebrook Pierce and it describes small acts and subtle behavior between people of different races that could potentially be interpreted as racially…
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Meagan Schipanski – Colorado State University – Cover Crops vs. Cash Crops
Farmers want to maximize the land where they cultivate their crops. But, Meagan Schipanski‘s research indicates: it might be beneficial to alternate planting cash crops with cover crops. Dr. Meagan Schipanski is an assistant professor of agroecology in the Department…
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Jane Costello, Duke University – Sharing the Wealth
Does profit sharing improve the community at large? In today’s Academic Minute, Jane Costello, a professor at Duke University’s Insitute for Brain Sciences, profiles an experiment involving just that. In 1994, a tribe of Cherokee Indians opened a casino and…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (6.23-6.27)
This Week on the Academic Minute Monday, June 23 Dr. Jane Costello of Duke University details the results of a casino profit-sharing experiment. Tuesday, June 24 Dr. Meagan Schipanski of Colorado State University shows the potential benefits of alternating cash…
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Helena Laroche, University of Iowa – Healthier Concession Stands
When attending a sporting event, snacking on a hot dog or grabbing a soda at the game is a long standing spectator tradition. Helena Laroche, assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Iowa, made some changes to the…
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Nathaniel Dominy, Dartmouth College – Edible Environments
We’ve all got to eat. And, the location, preparation and consumption of food is a central part of the existence of all living things. Nathaniel Dominy, associate professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, focuses his research on an evolutionary understanding…