Tag: USC
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The Academic Minute for 2025.12.22-2025.12.26
Monday Jared Del Rosso – University of Denver Waiting for Whip-poor-wills Jared Del Rosso is a cultural sociologist in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Denver. He is currently writing a book, tentatively titled The Lonesome Whip-poor-will: Untold Stories of America’s Most Iconic Bird, for NYU Press’s “Animals in Context” series. He has written…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.12.15-2025.12.19
Monday Ethan Yackulic – Northern Arizona University Restoring Functional Fire in the West Ethan Yackulic is a PhD student in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. His work leverages remote sensing products to measure changes in forest carbon inventories across the western United States. He is deeply passionate about playing…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.10.20-2025.10.24
Monday Jon Rawski –San Jose State University A Blueprint for Designing Intelligent Learning Systems Jon Rawski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University in San Jose, California, where he teaches courses on general and computational linguistics. Professor Rawski’s research aims to understand the fundamental laws of language and…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.07.14-2025.07.18
Monday Nancy Guo – Binghamton University The Search for Relapse Predictors in Lung Cancer Tumors Nancy Guo is one of the newest additions to the Binghamton University School of Computing as a part of the SUNY Empire Innovation Program. With 62 peer reviewed publications amassing over 4,170 citations, her research on artificial intelligence and bioinformatics…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.07.14)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.07.14 Monday Nancy Guo, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the school of computing at Binghamton University, discusses the search for relapse predictors in lung cancer tumors. Tuesday Nick Muller, professor of economics, engineering, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, explores how to address wildfire smoke pollution.…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.06.09-2025.06.13
Monday Will Berelson – University of Southern California Dornsife Urban Greenery Plays a Bigger Role in Offsetting Fossil Fuel Emissions than Expected Will Berelson is the Paxson Offield Professor of Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies and Spatial Sciences at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. His research involves studies of chemical cycling in the…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.12.16)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.12.16 Monday Laura Link, associate professor of teaching & leadership at the University of North Dakota, says holding kids back does more harm than good. Tuesday Emily Smith-Greenaway, Dean’s professor of sociology and professor of sociology and spatial sciences at the University of Southern California Dornsife, details…
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The Academic Minute for 2024.12.09-2024.12.13
The Academic Minute from 12.09 – 12.13 Monday Emma McClendon – St. John’s University Jeans: Universal and Unsustainable Emma McClendon is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at St. John’s University in New York. While Associate Curator at The Museum at FIT from 2011-2020, she curated numerous critically acclaimed fashion history exhibitions including Power Mode: The Force of…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.12.09)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.12.09 Monday Emma McClendon, assistant professor of fashion studies at St. John’s University, delves into why jeans are so popular but also unsustainable. Tuesday Soazig Le Bihan, professor of philosophy and pre-law program director at the University of Montana, says our knowledge of how science works may…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2024.11.18)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2024.11.18 Monday Gale Sinatra, distinguished professor and Stephen H. Crocker chair professor of education and psychology dean for research at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, says using complex jargon can lessen the impact of a message. Tuesday Marcos Fernandez-Tous, assistant professor…