Tag: Toronto
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.04.22)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.04.22 Monday Cailyn Green, assistant professor of addiction studies in the school of human services at SUNY Empire, discusses best practices to treating substance use and eating disorders. Tuesday Mandy O’Neill, associate professor of management at George Mason University, looks into how to change the culture of…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.02.12-2024.02.16
The Academic Minute from 2.12 – 2.16 Monday Anne Pezalla – Macalester College Gentle Parenting is Not-So-Gentle on Parents Dr. Pezalla’s expertise is in adolescent risk and resilience, social identities, family relationships, and narratives in health. Tuesday Laura Doering – University of Toronto Sexism and Ambiguity Laura Doering is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management…
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The Academic Minute for 2023.07.24-2023.07.28
The Academic Minute from 7.24 – 7.28 Monday Robin Morrison – University of Zurich Overcoming Adversity Robin Morrison is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Zurich and an Affiliate Scientist at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda. She uses long-term data from wild gorillas to examine the…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.07.24)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.07.24 Monday Robin Morrison, senior researcher at the University of Zurich and affiliate scientist at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, determines how gorillas foster resilience. Tuesday Patrick James, Dana and David Dornsife Dean’s Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California, considers the lessons the U.S. can…
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The Academic Minute for 2023.07.17-2023.07.21
The Academic Minute from 7.17 – 7.21 Monday Linda Charmaraman – Wellesley College When It Comes to Teens and Screens, Pets Can Have Surprising Benefits Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab. Her research interests…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.07.17)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.07.17 Monday Linda Charmaraman, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, details how pets can help teens with screen time. Tuesday Paula Rochon, professor in the department of medicine at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto,…
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The Academic Minute for 2023.04.10-2023.04.14
The Academic Minute from 4.10 – 4.14 Monday Kate Mulligan – University of Toronto Loneliness as a Health Issue Dr. Kate Mulligan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and the Senior Director of the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing. Her work focuses on advancing community-scale leadership and intervention in health and health…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2023.04.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2023.04.10 Monday Kate Mulligan, assistant professor of social and behavioral health sciences at the University of Toronto, says loneliness is a growing health problem, but how do medical professionals treat it? Tuesday Joanne Dickson, professor of psychology and mental health at Edith Cowan University, explores how mental flexibility can…
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The Academic Minute for 2022.07.04-2022.07.08
The Academic Minute from 07.04 – 07.08 Monday, July 4th Jay Zagorsky – Boston University Fireworks I am a cross-disciplinary researcher who has spent over two decades of researching a wide variety of personal wealth topics. I try to explain why some people become rich, others are poor and some move between these two…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.07.04)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.07.04 Monday, July 4th Jay Zagorsky, economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, says more and more Americans are choosing to shoot off fireworks than ever before. Tuesday, July 5th TaLisa Carter, assistant professor in the department of justice, law & criminology at American University, takes…