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The Academic Minute for 2025.12.01-2025.12.05
Monday Ashish Agarwal – University of Texas at Austin Driving Assistance Systems Can Lead to More Hazardous Driving Ashish Agarwal is a professor of information, risk, and operations management at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He teaches courses on the introduction to information technology honors, digital technologies, and business innovations,…
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Cal Whyte, Florida Institute of Technology – Exoplanets
On this Student Spotlight: White Dwarf stars may create a potentially viable environment for life. Cal Whyte, PhD student in the Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Science at Florida Institute of Technology, looks into this. Caldon T. Whyte is a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Science at Florida Institute…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.12.01)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.12.01 Monday Ashish Agarwal, professor in the IROM Department of Management in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, gets behind the wheel to find out if driving assistance systems lead to safer driving. Tuesday Ann Perreau, professor and co-chair of communication…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.11.10-2025.11.14
Monday Manasvi Lingam – Florida Institute of Technology The Benefits of Using A Different Type of Propulsion to Explore Our Solar System Manasvi Lingam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of astrobiology at Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) in Melbourne, Florida. After completing his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Dr. Lingam…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.11.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.11.10 Monday Manasvi Lingam, assistant professor of astrobiology at the Florida Institute of Technology, examines a better way to explore space without using rockets for propulsion. Tuesday Jayna Moceri-Brooks, clinical assistant professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University, explores whether getting a Purple…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.10.20-2025.10.24
Monday Jon Rawski –San Jose State University A Blueprint for Designing Intelligent Learning Systems Jon Rawski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University in San Jose, California, where he teaches courses on general and computational linguistics. Professor Rawski’s research aims to understand the fundamental laws of language and…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.07.21-2025.07.25
Monday Patrick Shober – Paris Obersavtory The Case of the Missing Meteorites Patrick Shober is a planetary scientist who investigates small solar-system bodies—from asteroids and comets to the spectacular fireballs their debris creates in Earth’s atmosphere. He earned his PhD at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, where he worked with the Desert Fireball Network to…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.07.21)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.07.21 Monday Patrick Shober, postdoctoral fellow at the Paris Observatory and NASA’s Johnson Space Center, watches the skies for answers to the case of the missing meteorites. Tuesday Antonin Affholder, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, discusses whether there could be life on Titan. Wednesday…
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The Academic Minute for 2023.06.26-2023.06.30
The Academic Minute from 6.26 – 6.30 Monday Sophie Chao – University of Sydney Why Mourning Matters in the Anthropocene Sophie Chao is an anthropologist interested in the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific. She is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua and…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.06.26)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.06.26 Monday Sophie Chao, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, says humans react to environmental change in many forms. Tuesday Joanne Dickson, professor of psychology and mental health at Edith Cowan University, determines the best way…