Tag: Kansas
-
The Academic Minute for 2022.11.28-2022.12.02
The Academic Minute from 11.28 – 12.02 Monday, November 28th Jun Wu – University of California, Irvine Examining Effects of Environment on Preterm Birth Jun Wu, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UCI Program in Public Health. Dr. Wu’s interests focus on population-based research of environmental exposure assessment, environmental…
-
This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.11.28)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.11.28 Monday, November 28th Jun Wu, professor of environment and occupational health at the University of California, Irvine program in public health, says your environment can play a role in when nurturing begins. Tuesday, November 29th Hala Altamimi, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs and…
-
The Academic Minute for 2022.08.08-2022.08.12
The Academic Minute from 08.08 – 08.12 Monday, August 8th Karen Cerulo – Rutgers University Dreaming of Future Possibilities Karen A. Cerulo has authored several books and articles in the areas of culture and cognition, symbol systems and meaning, inequality, media and technology, social change, and identity construction. She served as the Chair of…
-
This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.08.08)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.08.08 Monday, August 8th Karen Cerulo, full professor of sociology at Rutgers University, explains how striving to achieve our dreams can make things better for everyone. Tuesday, August 9th John Tures, professor of political science at LaGrange College, examines whether red flag laws help lower gun deaths…
-
The Academic Minute for 2019.05.27-05.31
The Academic Minute from 05.27 – 05.31 Monday, May 27th Lorie Vanchena – University of Kansas World War I Poetry Lorie A. Vanchena, associate professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas, is author of a monograph and articles on 19th-century German political poetry. She also published Anton in America: A Novel from…
-
This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.05.27)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.05.27 Monday, May 27th Lorie Vanchena of the University of Kansas examines the poetry written during of World War I. Tuesday, May 28th Stephanie Carr of Hartwick College discusses what microorganisms are doing for you. Wednesday, May 29th Travis Fox of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism explores…
-
The Academic Minute for 2018.02.26-03.02
Academic Minute from 2.26 – 3.02 Monday, February 26th Christian Miller – Wake Forest University The Character Gap Christian B. Miller holds a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of…
-
This Week on The Academic Minute (2018.02.26)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2018.02.26 Monday, February 26th Christian Miller of Wake Forest University explores the character gap inside all of us. Tuesday, February 27th Kate Manne of Cornell University discusses misogyny and how our attitudes still need a change on sexual assault. Wednesday, February 28th Christine Blackburn of Texas A&M University explains…
-
This Week On The Academic Minute (2017.6.19)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2017.6.19 Monday, June 19th Matthew Pase of Boston University determines if drinking diet soda can accelerate brain aging. Tuesday, June 20th Joseph Bennett of Carleton University discusses if de-extinction is worth the cost. Wednesday, June 21st Colin Camerer of the California Institute of Technology delves into whether an increase in testosterone…
-
The Academic Minute for 2017.5.15-5.19
Academic Minute from 5.15 – 5.19 Monday, May 15th Benjamin Blencowe – University of Toronto One Protein’s Sweeping Influence on Autism Our research focuses on mechanisms underlying the regulation of gene expression and how these mechanisms go awry in human diseases. Most of our research is directed at understanding how alternative splicing is integrated with other…