Tag: Gettysburg
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The Academic Minute for 2023.11.27-2023.12.01
The Academic Minute from 11.27 – 12.01 Monday Jay Zagorsky – Boston University Can Important Unions Collapse and Disappear? Jay Zagorsky is an economist who teaches at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. This summer he taught his 10,000th Boston University student. Professor Zagorsky has published three books and is working on his fourth entitled…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.11.27)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.11.27 Monday Jay Zagorsky, clinical associate professor at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, examines how one union that came and went due to technological inventions. Tuesday Marie-Claire Beaulieu, associate professor of classical studies at Tufts University, explores the mythology present in your garden. …
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The Academic Minute for 2023.08.28-2023.09.01
The Academic Minute from 8.28 – 9.01 Monday Megan Benka-Coker – Gettysburg College Evaluating Real-World Global Health Interventions Dr. Benka-Coker is an Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences Department at Gettysburg College. She is an environmental epidemiologist and global health researcher. Her research primarily focuses on household energy and cooking, evaluating cleaner-burning cookstove technologies and…
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The Academic Minute for 2019.05.20-05.24
The Academic Minute from 05.20 – 05.24 Monday, May 20th Ken Joseph – University at Buffalo Fighting Fake News I am an assistant professor in the CSE Department at the University at Buffalo. In the past, I was a postdoc at the LazerLab at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and a fellow at…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.05.20)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.05.20 Monday, May 20th Kenny Joseph of the University at Buffalo examines how to fight fake news leading up to the 2020 election. Tuesday, May 21st Barry Markovsky of the University of South Carolina discusses mass hysteria in the news. Wednesday, May 22nd Stephanie Jones of Harvard University explores…
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Sahana Mukherjee 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 (#1408), Bob has selected…
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The Academic Minute for 2017.8.28-9.1
Academic Minute from 8.28- 9.1 Monday, August 28th Mark Canada – Indiana University Kokomo The Danger of Fake News Mark Canada, Professor of English and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University Kokomo, has drawn on his own experience in both journalism and literature to write extensively about the intersections of the two…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2017.8.28)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2017.8.28 Monday, August 28th Mark Canada of Indiana University Kokomo discusses the lure and danger of ‘fake news.’ Tuesday, August 29th Sahana Mukherjee of Gettysburg College explores how photos of the past can influence our national identity today. Wednesday, August 30th R. Khari Brown of Wayne State University examines how…
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2015.01.12 – This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday, January 12 Angela Crean of The University of New South Wales teaches us about telegony. Tuesday, January 13 Kim Haines-Eitzen of Cornell University discusses the majesty of acoustic soundscapes. Wednesday, January 14 University of Scranton political scientist Mike Allison profiles the effectiveness of governments instated after a revolution. Thursday, January 15 Shirley Anne Warshaw…