Tag: Northwestern
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The Academic Minute for 2018.03.12-03.16
Academic Minute from 3.12 – 3.16 Monday, March 12th Raymond Boisvert – Siena College 200th Publication Anniversary of Frankenstein Educated in Rhode Island, Switzerland, the University of Toronto and Emory University in Atlanta, Raymond Boisvert made his academic reputation with two books on the American philosopher John Dewey. Hired at Siena in 1984, he…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2018.03.12)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2018.03.12 Monday, March 12th Raymond Boisvert of Siena College discusses the Frankenstein legend on the day after the 200th publication anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel. Tuesday, March 13th Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University discusses climate change’s effect on extreme winter weather. Wednesday, March 14th Jennifer LeMesurier of Colgate University…
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The Academic Minute for 2017.12.11-12.15
Academic Minute from 12.11 – 12.15 Monday, December 11th Sebastian Deffner – University of Maryland Baltimore County Quantum Supremacy I was previously a Research Associate in the group of Christopher Jarzynski at the University of Maryland, College Park (2011-2014), and a Director’s Funded Postdoctoral Fellow with Wojciech H. Zurek at the Los Alamos National Laboratory…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2017.12.11)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2017.12.11 Monday, December 11th Sebastian Deffner of the University of Maryland Baltimore County explores quantum supremacy. Tuesday, December 12th Cindy Strong of Cornell College discusses what chemistry can teach us about ancient pottery. Wednesday, December 13th Michelle Pautz of the University of Dayton examines if movies and popular opinion differ…
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The Academic Minute for 2017.3.13-3.17
Academic Minute from 3.13 – 3.17 Monday, March 13th Jennifer Mueller – University of San Diego Leadership Resisting Creativity My research examines the biases people have against creative ideas and creative people. I wrote a paper, “The Bias Against Creativity” that went viral and was downloaded more than 65,000 times. Before joining the faculty at the…