Tag: Buffalo
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The Academic Minute for 2026.01.12-2026.01.16
Monday Daniel Robinson – University of Texas at Arlington Testing and the Paradox of Fairness Dan Robinson is currently the Interim Chair of the Department of Higher Education, Adult Learning, and Organizational Studies and also the K-16 Mind, Brain and Education Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at Arlington. Previously, he served as Associate…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.01.12)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2026.01.12 Monday Daniel Robinson, professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, delves into whether tests are a fair way to predict individual performance. Tuesday Jason DeFreitas, professor and department chair in exercise science at Syracuse University, explores how strength training may have additional benefits for slowing…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.09.22-2025.09.26
Monday Kent Kauffman – Purdue University Fort Wayne The Legal Standard that Safeguards Faculty When Students Sue Because of a Bad Grade Kent Kauffman is associate professor of Business Law and Ethics, and is the MBA Programs Faculty Liaison in the Doermer School of Business at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he teaches in the undergraduate…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.09.22)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.09.22 Monday Kent Kauffman, associate professor of business law and ethics at Purdue University Fort Wayne, asks “What if a student sues a professor because of a bad grade?” Tuesday Timothy Williamson, assistant professor of psychological science at Loyola Marymount University, discusses how to replace stigma with…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.06.02-2025.06.06
Monday Elahe Solanaghai – University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Sensing Beneath the Forest Canopy: A New Tool for Wildfire Prevention Elahe Soltanaghai is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research spans the areas of wireless networking and sensing with applications in IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Mixed Reality. Previously, she was a…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.06.02)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.06.02 Monday Elahe Soltanaghai, assistant professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aims to deliver a new tool of aid in wildfire prevention. Tuesday Lee Haines, associate research professor in Medical Entomology at the University of Notre Dame, explores how…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.04.07-2025.04.11
The Academic Minute from 4.7 – 4.11 Monday Rafaela Fontes – Virginia Tech University Persistence with Abstinence from Substance Use Rafaela Fontes is a research scientist in the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. Her work focuses on decision-making processes in individuals with substance use disorders (SUD), using models of choice…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.04.07)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.04.07 Monday Rafaela Fontes, research scientist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech University, takes a look at how long it takes for successful abstinence from substance use. Tuesday Praveen Arany, associate professor of oral biology and biomedical engineering and surgery at the University at…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.02.24)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.02.24 Monday Erik Van Aken, instructor of philosophy and religious studies at Rocky Mountain College, explains why chaos theory has changed how we think about certain ideas in physics. Tuesday Ann Kronrod, associate professor of marketing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, reads up on the language…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.02.19-2024.02.23
The Academic Minute from 2.19 – 2.23 Monday Ken Jones – Northern Kentucky University A Forgotten Voice is Heard Ken Jones has had original plays and musicals produced throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. His play, DARKSIDE, was chosen as TIME Magazine’s Critic Choice and was also recognized as one of the…