Tag: Scripps College
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Sarah Marzen, Scripps College – Testing Interventions to Polarization in Opinion Dynamics Models
On Scripps College Week: How do you combat confirmation bias and polarization? Sarah Marzen, assistant professor of physics, has a suggestion. Sarah Marzen started in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics but quickly went over to theoretical biophysics and has been researching that ever since. She started as an undergraduate in physics at Caltech, winning the Haren Lee…
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Stacey Wood, Scripps College – Our Approach to Fraud Needs to Change
On Scripps College Week: Our approach to dealing with fraud needs an overhaul. Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones professor of psychology, puts together the evidence to show us why. Stacey Wood, Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist and the Molly Mason Jones Professor of Psychology at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. She received a B.A. in…
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Patrick Ferree, Scripps College – Unexpected Conflict in the Nucleus
On Scripps College Week: Why do some chromosomes act selfishly? Patrick Ferree, professor in the W. M. Keck Science Department, finds out. Patrick Ferree, a developmental geneticist at the Claremont Colleges, is studying how certain chromosomes selfishly hijack reproductive development to gain a transmission advantage. Dr. Patrick Ferree is a professor in the W. M.…
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Myriam Chancy, Scripps College – Caribbean Women in Literature
On Scripps College Week: Fiction can bring truth to the fore. Myriam Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Chair in the Humanities, looks into the history of Caribbean women. Myriam J.A. Chancy, Ph.D. (Iowa) is a Guggenheim Fellow, and Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities Chair at Scripps College. Chancy is the author of…
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Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College – Queer-ish
On Scripps College Week: Photography can reveal many hidden things about the people who lived centuries ago. Ken Gonzales-Day, professor and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Art, looks back at some. Ken Gonzales-Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose interdisciplinary practice considers the historical construction of race and the limits of representational systems ranging…
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The Academic Minute for 2021.02.01-2021.02.05
The Academic Minute from 02.01 – 02.05 Monday, February 1st Hao Huang – Scripps College Tradition and Environmentalism in Bali: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Currently the endowed Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College, Dr. Hao Huang has served as a four-time United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador to Europe, the Middle…
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Nancy Neiman, Scripps College – Markets and Social Justice
On Scripps College Week: Free markets cannot be counted on to erase social injustices. Nancy Neiman, professor of political science, explains why. Nancy Neiman is the Mary Wig Johnson Professor of Teaching at Scripps College. She came to Scripps College in 1993, where she has been the recipient of numerous teaching, research, and community service…
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Yuval Avnar, Scripps College – News Echo Chambers
On Scripps College Week: Are news echo chambers really a bad thing? Yuval Avnur, professor of philosophy, takes a two-pronged approach to this question. Yuval Avnur is Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College. He works on a broad range of issues about belief and doubt, including in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of religion, and the history of…
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Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, Scripps College – Cell Stress Response
On Scripps College Week: How do our cells respond to stress? Today on The Academic Minute: Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert, associate professor of biology, takes a closer look. Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert is an Associate Professor of Biology at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges in California. She completed her Ph.D. at the Weill Cornell Medical College and did…
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Martha Gonzalez, Scripps College – Participatory Music Practices
On Scripps College Week: How has music been affected by commoditization? Martha Gonzalez, associate professor of chicanx-latinx studies, looks into this question. Martha Gonzalez is a Chicana artivista (artist/activist) musician, feminist music theorist and Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College. A Fulbright (2007-2008), Ford (2012-2013) and Woodrow Wilson…