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  • The Academic Minute for 2023.03.06-2023.03.10

    The Academic Minute for 2023.03.06-2023.03.10

    The Academic Minute from 3.06 – 3.10 Monday Lisa Jean Moore – Purchase College Spider Goats Lisa Jean Moore is a medical sociologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York. Her scholarship is located at the intersections of sociology of health and medicine, science and…

  • Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College – Spider Goats

    Lisa Jean Moore, Purchase College – Spider Goats

    On SUNY Distinguished Professor Week:  Goats and spiders can help make things lighter. Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY distinguished professor of sociology and gender studies at SUNY Purchase, looks for a more sustainable source of silk. Lisa Jean Moore is a medical sociologist and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State…

  • Elise Lemire, Purchase College – The Vietnam Veterans’ Anti-War Movement

    Elise Lemire, Purchase College – The Vietnam Veterans’ Anti-War Movement

    The Vietnam War can be a Rorschach Test. Elise Lemire, professor of literature at Purchase College, explains how some veterans changed the societal perception before the end of the war. Elise Lemire is the author of Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston, just released by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.05.31)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2021.05.31)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2021.05.31   Monday, May 31st Elise Lemire, professor of literature at Purchase College, explains how some veterans changed the societal perception before the end of the Vietnam war. Tuesday, June 1st Heath Henderson, assistant professor of economics at Drake University, discusses if cash payments are the best way to…