Tag: Bard
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The Academic Minute for 2023.07.10-2023.07.14
The Academic Minute from 7.10 – 7.14 Monday Mark Warschauer – University of California, Irvine Improving Children’s Learning Through Interactive TV Shows Dr. Warschauer is a professor of education and informatics and has worked with students at all levels since 1977. Outside of teaching, Dr. Warschauer is the director of the Digital Learning Lab where…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.07.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.07.10 Monday Mark Warschauer, professor of education and informatics at the University of California, Irvine, explores how to make characters interact with the kids watching them on television. Tuesday Dennis McCarty, lecturer at the University at Albany, says we all have a role to play in our…
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The Academic Minute for 2021.09.13-2021.09.17
The Academic Minute from 09.13 – 09.17 Monday, September 13th Dana Ferraris – McDaniel College Discovering Anti-Viral Drugs to Treat COVID-19 Dana Ferraris, associate professor of Chemistry and the John Desmond Kopp Professorship in the Sciences, began teaching at McDaniel College in 2015 as a visiting professor before joining the faculty as associate professor…
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The Academic Minute for 2021.09.06-2021.09.10
The Academic Minute from 09.06 – 09.10 Monday, September 6th Meredith Kneavel – LaSalle University Athletic Trainers: Unseen Healthcare Workers of the Pandemic Dr. Meredith Kneavel, Ph.D., has training as a biopsychologist whose foundational work was in the study of sex differences in stress, learning, and memory. Her stress research has expanded to understanding…
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John Cullinan, Bard College – Voting and Math
Is our current voting system the most fair? John Cullinan, mathematician at Bard College, examines the arithmetic behind the way we vote. John Cullinan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Program at Bard College. His primary research focuses on the intersection of Number Theory and Representation Theory, and he has recently begun publishing…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2015.9.7)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2015.9.7 Monday, September 7 Vicki Howard of Hartwick College traces the evolution of the department store. Tuesday, September 8 Karla Zadnik of The Ohio State University describes her optometry experimentation. Wednesday, September 9 Jennifer Itzkowitz of Seton Hall University tells us about the benefits of having a name that…
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The Academic Minute for 2015.6.29 – 7.3
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 6.29- 7.3 Monday, June 29 Emily O’Brien – Duke University AFib Dr. O’Brien’s primary research focus is care delivery and outcomes in observational cardiovascular disease cohorts, with specific applications to atrial fibrillation, stroke, and hypercholesterolemia. Her research interests include comparative effectiveness, patient-reported outcomes, quality of care, and medication…
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Hal Haggard, Bard College – Black Hole Life Cycles
How does a black hole die? Today on The Academic Minute, Hal Haggard, physicist at Bard College, describes the life cycle of black holes. Hal Haggard, a theoretical physicist at Bard College, explores the overlap of quantum mechanics and gravity searching for new understandings of space and time within an atom and throughout the cosmos.…