Tag: harvard

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.08.19)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.08.19)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.08.19   Monday Jeff Frank, professor of education at St. Lawrence University, thinks philosophically about screentime in schools.   Tuesday Alexis Redding, faculty co-chair of higher education and lecturer at Harvard University, says institutions only a have a few days to make a good impression on students.   Wednesday…

  • The Academic Minute for 2023.04.10-2023.04.14

    The Academic Minute for 2023.04.10-2023.04.14

    The Academic Minute from 4.10 – 4.14 Monday Kate Mulligan – University of Toronto Loneliness as a Health Issue Dr. Kate Mulligan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and the Senior Director of the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing. Her work focuses on advancing community-scale leadership and intervention in health and health…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.10)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.10)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.04.10   Monday Kate Mulligan, assistant professor of social and behavioral health sciences at the University of Toronto, says loneliness is a growing health problem, but how do medical professionals treat it?   Tuesday Joanne Dickson, professor of psychology and mental health at Edith Cowan University, explores how mental flexibility can…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.12.20)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.12.20)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2021.12.20   Monday, December 20th Susan McKelvey, research assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, looks into how we help students with disabilities fulfill their career goals. Tuesday, December 21st Neel Shah, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, explains how many prenatal care visits…

  • The Academic Minute for 2021.11.15-2021.11.19

    The Academic Minute for 2021.11.15-2021.11.19

      The Academic Minute from 11.15 – 11.19 Monday, November 15th Karla Vermeulen – SUNY New Paltz The Post 9/11 Generation’s Safety Perceptions Karla Vermeulen is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.11.15)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.11.15)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2021.11.15   Monday, November 15th Karla Vermeulen, assistant professor of psychology at SUNY New Paltz, determines how the tragedy of 9/11 changed perceptions for generations. Tuesday, November 16th Art Markman, professor of psychology and marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses changing minds in a polarized world.…

  • The Academic Minute for 2020.07.27-2020.07.31

    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…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2020.07.27)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2020.07.27)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.07.27 Monday, July 27th Trysh Travis, associate professor at the center for gender, sexualities, and women’s studies research at the University of Florida, discusses why positive thinking is popping up again during the pandemic. Tuesday, July 28th Gina Baleria, assistant professor in the department of communication and media studies…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.07.08-07.12

    The Academic Minute for 2019.07.08-07.12

    The Academic Minute from 07.08 – 07.12 Monday, July 8th Jason Delborne – North Carolina State University Forest Biotech Jason A. Delborne joined NC State in August 2013 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) and an associate professor of science, policy and society in the Department of…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.07.08)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.07.08)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.07.08 Monday, July 8th Jason Delborne of North Carolina State Univeristy examines forest biotech. Tuesday, July 9th Sonja Duempelmann of Harvard University looks into the importance of the trees that line city streets. Wednesday, July 10th Rajesh Kana of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explores finding a biomarker…