Tag: scripps college week
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The Academic Minute for 2024.04.15-2024.04.19
The Academic Minute from 4.15 – 4.19 Monday Ken Gonzales-Day – Scripps College Queer-ish 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 from lynching photographs to museum displays. His widely exhibited Erased Lynching series (ongoing), along with the publication…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.04.15)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.04.15 Scripps College Week Monday Ken Gonzales-Day, professor and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Art, explores how photography can reveal many hidden things from the past. Tuesday Myriam Chancy, Guggenheim Fellow and Hartley Burr Chair in the Humanities, looks into the history of Caribbean women through their writing.…
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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…
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Hao Huang, Scripps College – Tradition and Environmentalism in Bali: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
On Scripps College Week: The environment we have today will nurture future generations. Hao Huang, professor of humanities, looks at environmentalism and music in a sacred way. 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…
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Sean Flynn, Scripps College – Reducing Healthcare Costs
On Scripps College Week: How do we cut the cost of health care in the U.S.? Sean Flynn, professor of economics, has some solutions. Sean Flynn is the author of the best-seller Economics for Dummies, which has now been translated into seven foreign languages, as well as the coauthor along with Campbell McConnell and Stanley…
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Christina Edholm, Scripps College – Traveling and Disease Outbreaks
On Scripps College Week: Gaining more information on disease outbreaks will be crucial for the future. Christina Edholm, assistant professor of mathematics, discusses how managers can better prepare for these epidemics. Christina Edholm, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her area of expertise is applied mathematics, with specific focus…
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Nicholas Kacher, Scripps College – Rising Home Prices
On Scripps College Week: Is there a catch to rising home prices? Nicholas Kacher, assistant professor of economics, determines the unintended consequences of this usually good economic development. Nicholas Kacher is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Scripps College. Originally from Waltham, Massachusetts, he earned a BA in Economics at Wheaton College (MA) in 2011.…