Tag: Shawn Bishop

  • Shawn Bishop featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    Shawn Bishop featured on The Best of Our Knowledge

    As always, host Bob Barrett selects an Academic Minute to air during The Best of Our Knowledge. Each week this program examines some of the issues unique to college campuses, looks at the latest research, and invites commentary from experts and administrators from all levels of education. For this week‘s edition (#1368), Bob has selected…

  • The Academic Minute for 2016.11.14-11.18

    The Academic Minute for 2016.11.14-11.18

    Academic Minute from 11.14 – 11.18 Monday, November 14th Ed Hirt – Indiana University Self-Sabotage Ed Hirt is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.As a researcher, Hirt is interested in issues related to motivation and performance, including how mental depletion can negatively…

  • Shawn Bishop, TU Munchen – Supernova Ashes and an Extinction Event

    Shawn Bishop, TU Munchen – Supernova Ashes and an Extinction Event

    Traces of supernovas in the cosmos could be in our oceans. Shawn Bishop, professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich, discusses if this is a clue to an extinction event from our past. Started out his scientific career a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Specifically, he hails from…

  • This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.11.14)

    This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.11.14)

    This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.11.14 Monday, November 14th Ed Hirt of Indiana University discusses when we’re most likely to self sabotage ourselves. Tuesday, November 15th Shawn Bishop of the Technical University of Munich explores supernova ash found in our oceans. Wednesday, November 16th Mitch Prinstein of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examines…