Tag: harvard
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…