Tag: University of California Berkeley
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Timothy Hampton, University of California Berkeley – Cheerfulness, Then and Now
Have you been cheerful lately? Timothy Hampton, Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California Berkeley, examines this feeling. Writer, scholar, teacher, and translator Timothy Hampton teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. Primarily a student of the Romance languages and of the early…
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Naniette Coleman, University of California Berkeley – Diversifying the Hands that Combat Misinformation One Wikipedia “edit” Button Click at a Time
On Wiki Education Week: Everyone can work to combat misinformation. Naniette Coleman, PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California Berkeley, determines how Wikipedia can help. Naniette H. Coleman is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California Berkeley and a multi-year UC-National Laboratory Graduate Fellow (Los Alamos). She is the only…
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Steven Stahler, University of California Berkeley – Our Sun Has A Twin
Our sun might have a twin. Steven Stahler, associate research astronomer at the University of California Berkeley, examines binary stars and whether our sun’s twin is still out there in the universe. 1992- Associate Research Astronomer; U. C. Berkeley 1991 Visiting Professor; Osservatorio di Arcetri, Florence 1990-1991 Associate Professor of Physics; MIT 1985-1990 Assistant Professor…
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Leanne ten Brinke 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 (#1346), Bob has selected…
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The Academic Minute for 2016.06.27-07.01
Academic Minute from 6.27 – 7.01 Monday, June 27 Fred Butcher – Case Western Reserve University Trauma in Youth Fredrick Butcher, Ph.D is a Research Associate with the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Dr. Butcher’s research areas…
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Leanne ten Brinke, University of California Berkeley – Virtues, Vices and Political Influence
Do virtues or vices make for a more influential politician? Leanne ten Brinke, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Haas School of Business and Department of Psychology at the University of California Berkeley, describes how these different factors affect the political elite. Leanne ten Brinke, Ph.D. is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Haas School of…
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This Week On The Academic Minute (2016.06.27)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2016.6.27 Monday, June 27 Fred Butcher of Case Western Reserve University delves into the issues caused by trauma experience during youth. Tuesday, June 28 Victor Sojo of the University of Melbourne discusses the risk of everyday sexism at work. Wednesday, June 29 Robin Kowalski of Clemson University explores cyberbullying.…