Tag: Emily Lescak

  • Emily Lescak featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    Emily Lescak 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 (#1327), Bob has selected Dr.…

  • The Academic Minute for 2016.2.15-2.19

    The Academic Minute for 2016.2.15-2.19

    Academic Minute from 2.15 – 2.19 Monday, February 15 Dylan Minor – Harvard Business School Toxic Workers Dylan Minor is a visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches a first year MBA course in Strategy. Professor Minor’s research interests originated from his professional involvement in socially responsible investing. He…

  • Emily Lescak, University of Alaska Anchorage – Evolutionary Timescales

    Emily Lescak, University of Alaska Anchorage – Evolutionary Timescales

    How long does it take for a species to evolve? Emily Lescak, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage, examines how one freshwater fish shows evolution can take place much faster than previously thought. Dr. Emily Lescak is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She uses threespine stickleback fish as a…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2016.2.15)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2016.2.15)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.2.15 Monday, February 15 Dylan Minor of the Harvard Business School explores how toxic workers can harm a working environment. Tuesday, February 16 Emily Lescak of the University of Alaska Anchorage delves into evolutionary timescales among threespine stickleback fish. Wednesday, February 17 Tobin Porterfield of Towson University explains how…