Tag: Florida
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The Academic Minute for 2024.12.23-2024.12.27
The Academic Minute from 12.23 – 12.27 Monday Kirk Schneider – Saybrook University The Need For Raw Awe Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology, an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and formerly Teachers College, Columbia University, and a cofounder and current president of the award-winning Existential-Humanistic Institute.…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.12.23)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.12.23 Monday Kirk Schneider, adjunct faculty in clinical psychology at Saybrook University, wonders if we have enough awe in our lives. Tuesday Jose Valentino Ruiz, affiliate professor of Arts, Migration, & Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida, teaches us lessons from the life of Quincy Jones. …
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Henry Knight Lozano, University of Exeter – California and Florida: From Climate Paradise to Crisis
Some locales known for their pristine weather may be in for rude awakenings in the future. Henry Knight Lozano, senior lecturer in American History at the University of Exeter, examines a couple such places. Dr Henry Knight Lozano is senior lecturer in American History and Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Exeter. His…
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The Academic Minute for 2023.04.03-2023.04.07
The Academic Minute from 4.03 – 4.07 Monday Sarah Abreveya Stein – University of California Los Angeles The Intersectional Space of a Vichy French WWII Labor Camp in the Algerian Sahara Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and Viterbi Family…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.03)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.04.03 Monday Sarah Abreveya Stein, professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles, listens to voices of the past for stories from World War II that need to be told. Tuesday Dawn Brancati, senior lecturer in the political science department at Yale University, looks into an unintended…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.09.05-2022.09.09
The Academic Minute from 09.05 – 09.09 Monday, September 5th Elizabeth Tricomi – Rutgers University Newark Pandemic Decision Making Is Difficult and Exhausting Elizabeth Tricomi received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. Her dissertation research focused on how the brain responds to positive and negative feedback during learning. She…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.09.05)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.09.05 Monday, September 5th Elizabeth Tricomi, associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University – Newark, examines why pandemic decision-making is so exhausting and difficult. Tuesday, September 6th Suzanne McLeod, assistant Professor in the department of teaching, learning, and educational leadership at Binghamton University, looks at ways to…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.02.07-2022.02.11
The Academic Minute from 02.07 – 02.11 Monday, February 7th John Lefebvre – Wofford College Fostering Resilience Among College Students John Lefebvre is a professor of psychology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Trained as a clinical psychologist, his teaching and research focus on topics related to physical and mental health. Lefebvre teaches…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.02.07)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.02.07 Monday, February 7th John Lefebvre, professor of psychology at Wofford College, explores how bringing students together to talk, helps them heal. Tuesday, February 8th Frederick Becker, associate professor in the hospitality management department at York College of Pennsylvania, determines what potential restaurant employees are looking for…
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The Academic Minute for 2020.07.27-2020.07.31
The Academic Minute from 07.27 – 07.31 Monday, July 27th Trysh Travis – University of Florida Magical Thinking I’m a cultural and literary historian who focuses on gender and popular cultures in the 20th-century United States. I was trained in the historical study of popular media forms, and in graduate school developed a side…