Tag: Arik Kershenbaum
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Arik Kershenbaum 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 and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1370), Bob has selected…
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The Academic Minute for 2016.08.15-08.19
Academic Minute from 8.15 – 8.19 Monday, August 15th Thomas Brown – McGill University Risky Drivers Thomas G. Brown, Ph.D. and his team of students and collaborators are developing psychosocial interventions to combat substance abuse. They also aim to identify individual characteristics of vulnerability in order to optimally provide the most suitable intervention. In addition,…
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Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge – Animal Communication
Do you talk to your pet? Arik Kershenbaum, research fellow in the department of zoology at the University of Cambridge, delves into whether our pets actually understand what we’re saying. Arik Kershenbaum (Ph.D. Biology, Univ. of Haifa, 2012) analyzes dolphin and whale vocalizations to identify significant syntactic trends to relate them to behavioral and environmental…
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This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.08.15)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.8.15 Monday, August 15th Thomas Brown of McGill University examines the different types of risky drivers. Tuesday, August 16th Robert Brinkmann of Hofstra University explores deep underground and whether caves can help us prepare for life in outer space. Wednesday, August 17th Kim Burchiel of Oregon Health & Science…