Geoff Ball, University of Alberta – Metabolically Healthy Obesity
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UAlberta research shows: a study of 181 children with obesity aged eight to 17 years old showed that up to a third could be classified as “metabolically healthy,” meaning they’re not imminently at risk of developing insulin resistance—a precursor to…
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Volkan Topalli, Georgia State University – Cash vs. Credit and Crime
“Our study shows that even a small reduction of cash has a positive effect in reducing street crime.” Volkan Topalli, associate professor of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia State University, profiles the effect that switching government assistance funds from…
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This Week on the Academic Minute
Monday, June 30 Dr. Volkan Topalli of Georgia State University explains how switching government assistance funds from cash to credit might reduce street crime. Tuesday, July 1 Dr. Geoff Ball of the University of Alberta discusses metabolically healthy obesity. …
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Dr. Dennis O’Rourke featured on The Best of Our Knowledge
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…