Podcasts about graduate education

In an evolving job market, professionals need flexible, targeted learning opportunities to stay current and to determine if graduate education is the right next step. In this episode of the NACU podcast, Michelle Apuzzio speaks with Marcy Taylor, Program Coordinator at Hood College, about their innovative Skill Accelerator Badge Program. Learn how this short-form credentialing initiative is helping individuals build job-ready skills, gain confidence, and position themselves for long-term success in the workforce.Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the NACU podcast, where we explore innovative ideas and collaborative strategies in higher education. To learn more about NACU and our programs, visit nacu.edu. Connect with us on LinkedIn: NACU If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and share it with your network.

This episode of Highest Aspirations welcomes Alice Collins from the Colorado Department of Education and Dr. Esther De Jong from the University of Colorado Denver to explore the dynamic landscape of bilingual education in the state. Discover the innovative programs designed to support Colorado's growing number of multilingual learners and the crucial initiatives aimed at building a strong pipeline of qualified bilingual educators.Tune in to gain insights into the collaborative efforts between the state and universities to equip teachers with the specialized skills needed to serve multilingual students effectively. Learn about the various courses and programs available that empower educators to create inclusive and successful learning environments for all students, fostering academic growth and linguistic development.Key questions we address:What types of bilingual education programs are available for Colorado's multilingual learners?How does the University of Colorado Denver support the training and development of teachers for multilingual students?What are the key strategies discussed for supporting and retaining qualified teachers of multilingual learners in Colorado?For additional episode and community resources:Download the transcript here.Newcomer resources course - Free 1-hour webinarOnline, self-directed newcomer course with deep dives (ideal for Professional Learning Communities)Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityDiscover, Connect, RespondFinding Me: A MemoirT-PREP: The Partnership for Rural Educator Preparation at University of Colorado Denver Learn more about the Ellevation Scholarship and how to apply. For additional free resources geared toward supporting English learners, ⁠visit our blog.Alice Collins is an ELD Senior Consultant with the Colorado Department of Education serving the state of Colorado in the office of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education. She partners with districts across the state to ensure quality language programming for the Multilingual Learners. Alice has many years of experience serving MLs, some of those roles include, teacher, CLDE Specialist, Instructional Coach, Assistant Principal, and CLDE Director. She has received multiple Teacher of the Year awards as well as CLDE Director of the Year. Alice is dedicated to providing every opportunity possible for ML students to succeed in education.Dr. Ester de Jong is a Professor in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education and Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Advanced programs at the University of Colorado Denver.  Her research interests include two-way bilingual education and other integrated models for language minority schooling, educational language policy, and teacher preparation for bilingual students.  Prior to UC Denver, she was the Director of the School of Teaching and Learning and Professor in ESOL/Bilingual Education at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. She has been in the field of ESL/bilingual education for over thirty years, as a practitioner and a researcher. Her research focuses on preparing teachers to work with bilingual learners in K-12 schools, and integrated approaches to the schooling of bilingual learners, including two-way bilingual education. Her book, “Foundations of Multilingualism in Education” lays out a principles-based approach to educational equity for bilingual learners.  Dr. de Jong was President of TESOL International Association (2017-2018). She is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Dual Language Bilingual Education (Routledge, 2023) and co-Editor of the Bilingual Research Journal.

On episode 60 of the Innovators Podcast, Alison Doyle, Associate Director of the ISURP, interviews Jennifer Margrett, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, and researcher of the PROPEL study. In this episode we discuss the study that Dr. Margrett is leading, the search for participants, and how they are able to contribute to the Research Park ecosystem. Thank you for listening! Contact Dr. Jennifer Margrett:Phone: 515-294-7804Email: margrett@iastate.edu

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Travis S. Humble, Director of the Quantum Science Center (QSC), a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Director of the lab's Quantum Computing Institute. He leads the development of new quantum technologies and infrastructure to impact the DOE mission of scientific discovery through quantum computing. As director of the QSC, Travis leads the innovation of scalable, resilient quantum information technologies through new materials, devices, and algorithms and facilitates the transfer of quantum technologies to the broadest audience. He also holds a joint faculty appointment with the University of Tennessee Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education working with students on energy-efficient computing solutions. Travis is Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Associate Editor for Quantum Information Processing, and Co-Chair of the IEEE Quantum Initiative.  Travis describes his journey into quantum computing, which began in theoretical chemistry, where he studied quantum processes in chemical reactions. He explains the difference between classical and quantum computing and why quantum computing is particularly well suited for scientific applications such as drug discovery and energy solutions. He talks about Oak Ridge's quantum computing resources and how researchers can access them. Travis also stresses the role education in advancing quantum computing and shares his predictions for its near future.

In this episode, we sit down with Michael Horowitz, Chancellor of The Community Solution Education System, to explore how technology is shaping the future of education. Although The Community Solution institutions are geared toward graduate and professional education, the rapidly evolving job market brings about a fundamental truth: the most valuable trait for college graduates isn't just expertise—it's a willingness to learn and adapt as technology continues to reshape the workforce. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the NACU podcast, where we explore innovative ideas and collaborative strategies in higher education. To learn more about NACU and our programs, visit nacu.edu. Connect with us on LinkedIn: NACU If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and share it with your network.

Good riddance to Dry January and hello to a new episode of Good, but not the best... a Dancing Gnome podcast. We begin the show with a tribute to PileZ (RIP) before jumping straight into a Look Back / Look Ahead (pay attention Barrel Club members.) Next, we talk about a Brew Bound article about breweries closing in Colorado, which leads to a discussion on what would be most helpful for breweries in PA (but mostly Allegheny county). Then, we are joined by our guest, Dr. Bob Parker from the University of Pittsburgh! Bob is the Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Swanson School of Engineering as well as a professor of Chemical Engineering, but most importantly, teaches a course at Pitt called Science, Technology and Culture of Craft Brewing! Bob tells us how this course came to be, what the students learn during the course, how the students are evaluated, and much, much more. We close out this episode with another round of Watch, Listen, Learn. Thanks for listening!Outro music by: Kabbalistic VillageBreak music by: Kevin MacLeod

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #071 for February 2025 - complete   Judge Lynwood Blount became a lawyer by going to night school and rose to be a judge in the Philadelphia criminal justice system. His manner and authoritative presence earned him the nickname “Count Blount.”   Florence DeVida Johnson-Reid came through the ranks to become Dean of Graduate Education and Continuing Education at Cheyney University, but her life was tragically cut short by cancer.   Judge Doris May Harris was only the third Black woman to graduate from Penn Law and became one of the most popular – and controversial – juvenile court judges in the city.   Jack Jones was a devout Roman Catholic from West Philadelphia who wanted to grow up to be famed announcer John Facenda. With Facenda's help, Jones got an early start in a career in broadcast news that ended with him being the first Black anchorperson on local news. He too died tragically young from cancer.   These four, plus information about the legal system in Philadelphia, the education of African American children in Philadelphia since the 1830s, the evolution of Black lawyers in Philadelphia, and the city's Black Roman Catholic population. 

Since 2021, when DU was designated as an R1 research institute, the University has been full speed on groundbreaking research locally and globally in psychology, engineering, education, natural science, mathematics and more. And no one knows that better than Corinne Lengsfeld, senior vice provost for research and graduate education, whose tenure at the University tells the story of DU's research journey. RadioEd co-hosts Emma Atkinson and Jordyn Reiland sat down with Lengsfeld earlier this month to chat about research: Why it matters, Lengsfeld's own projects and more. Corinne Lengsfeld serves as the Senior Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Education at the University of Denver. As the chief research officer, she is the primary advocate for the University's research mission and is charged with understanding, celebrating, leading and enhancing all forms of scholarship to foster professional growth of the faculty, advancing knowledge, enriching the student experience, and enhancing University visibility. Lengsfeld oversees all internal support for research, the management of external grants and contracts, research integrity and protection, intellectual property and technology transfer and some multidisciplinary research institutes/core facilities. 

InPresence 0258: Graduate Education in Parapsychology Jeffrey Mishlove shares his dream of establishing such a unique graduate level program in parapsychology. He dialogues with himself and provides details concerning the new offerings he helped to create at the California Institute for Human Science. Those offerings include a masters degree in psychology with a concentration in parapsychology, … Continue reading "InPresence 0258: Graduate Education in Parapsychology"

Welcome to Episode 133 of the Think UDL podcast: Online Graduate Education with Tracy Balduzzi. Tracy Balduzzi is the Associate Director of Strategic initiatives for the graduate school at Syracuse University and an adjunct Lecturer at Utica University in upstate New York. Tracy recently wrote an article about how she has implemented UDL strategies in the graduate online course she teaches and I was able to catch up with her to talk about what interventions she used to increase engagement, and added multiple ways to assess students along with providing multiple options for representation. We will also talk about student feedback and where to go from here!

Today we explore what it means to decolonize education. My guests are Riyad Shahjahan, Annabelle Estera, and Kirsten Edwards. Together with Kristen Surla, they conducted a literature review of 207 articles about the topic. They show that the very idea of decolonizing takes on diverse meanings and subsequently is put into practice in different ways. They argue there is no one way or best practice to decolonize curriculum or pedagogy. They also detail some of the challenges of actualizing decolonization. Riyad Shahjahan is an associate professor of higher, adult, and lifelong Education at Michigan State University. Annabelle Estera is an Advisor and Instructor in Graduate Education at Endicott College. Kirsten Edwards is an Associate Professor in educational policy studies at Florida International University. Their new co-written article is “‘Decolonizing' curriculum and pedagogy: A comparative review across disciplines and global higher education contexts” published in the Review of Educational Research. freshedpodcast.com/shahjahan-estera-edwards/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

On this episode of Let's Talk Risk, Robyn Wilson, Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science and Acting Associate Director of Research and Graduate Education, joins us to talk about the risks of developing a flexible and sensitive measure of risk perception. 

We're joined by David Simon Assistant Dean for Graduate Education, Senior Lecturer in Global Affairs and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. Simon explains that what's going on in Gaza is not a genocide and offers analysis as to why the charge has become ubiquitous. Plus, RFK Jr's new vice president once, apparently, was married to some rich guy. It's hard to know how important that part of her bio is.  And Mike offers some anguished thoughts about the fighting and the famine in Gaza. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this bonus episode, Kristine Blair talks about the value of ePortfolios in graduate education.

In this episode, Dr. Justin Grimes, founder and CEO of Stick With It and Apply to Graduate School, shares his expertise on enhancing graduate school enrollment through strategic enrollment management (SEM). Drawing on his extensive experience in higher education and diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education, Dr. Grimes offers practical strategies and insights for institutions looking to navigate and improve their graduate enrollment processes.   Key Discussion Points:   The State of Graduate Enrollment: ·      Recent reports show a 6.9% decrease in graduate enrollment over the past decade, with engineering experiencing a 16.1% drop. ·      This decline is notably significant among underrepresented minority and domestic students. Differentiating Recruitment and Enrollment:   ·      A clear distinction between graduate admissions (reviewing applications and making enrollment decisions) and recruitment (actively attracting and engaging with prospective students).  ·      Effective recruitment involves orchestrated communication and marketing to a diverse group of potential students.   Marketing, Sales, and Value Proposition:   ·      Institutions must understand their value proposition and ensure public perception aligns with their identity. ·      Marketing strategies should target potential students and clearly communicate the benefits and outcomes of the graduate programs.   Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM):   ·      SEM is a comprehensive process to achieve optimal recruitment, retention, and graduation rates. ·      It encompasses marketing, recruitment, and admissions, considering the academic context of the institution.   Stages of the Enrollment Funnel:   ·      An outline of various student types in the enrollment funnel: Potential Students, Prospective Students, Applicants, Admitted Students, and Enrolled Students. ·      Each category requires tailored strategies and communication.   Pathway Opportunities and Community Partnerships:   ·      Establishing partnerships with community colleges, HBCUs, and other organizations can create seamless transitions for underrepresented students into graduate programs. ·      Examples include FUSE at the University of Georgia and the Graduate Feeders Program at Florida A&M University. Recruitment Strategies and Data:   ·      Utilizing data to understand trends, gaps, and future directions is crucial. ·      Institutions should analyze their demographics, faculty representation, and peer comparisons to identify areas for improvement in diversity and inclusion.   Differences Between Recruiting for Masters and Doctoral Students:   ·      Master's recruitment should focus on the immediate career benefits and ROI, while doctoral recruitment should emphasize research opportunities and expectations.   Three Key Takeaways for Higher Education Presidents and Boards:   Allocate student resources effectively to support areas crucial for student success, like counseling, childcare, and housing. Analyze data to identify equity issues, especially in funding, and understand recruitment trends. Develop a strategic plan to address recruitment needs, involving alumni, faculty, staff, and community partners.   Final Thoughts   This episode provides valuable insights for higher education leaders looking to enhance their graduate school enrollment strategies. Dr. Grimes' expertise offers a comprehensive understanding of SEM, emphasizing the importance of tailored recruitment, strategic partnerships, and data-driven decision-making in increasing graduate school enrollment.     Read the transcript on our website →     About Our Podcast Guest   Dr. Justin Grimes is a distinguished educator deeply committed to equity, social justice, liberation, storytelling, service, and healing. Raised in the dynamic community of Little Rock, Arkansas, his experiences have profoundly influenced his dedication to extending grace, fostering understanding, and addressing issues of injustice.   Academically, Dr. Grimes holds a comprehensive educational background, including an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Systems with a Minor in African American Studies and a Master's in Workforce Development Education from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He furthered his expertise by obtaining a Ph.D. in Counseling and Student Personnel Services (College Student Affairs Administration) from the University of Georgia.   As the visionary founder and CEO of Stick With It, LLC, and Apply to Graduate School, Dr. Grimes spearheads an education and consulting enterprise that facilitates connections between individuals and organizations, offering insights and resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Graduate Education. His work assists individuals in navigating career and education decisions and provides strategies to propel them toward success.     About the Host   Dr. Drumm McNaughton, host of Changing Higher Ed® podcast, is a consultant to higher education institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers. To learn more about his services and other thought leadership pieces, visit his firm's website: https://changinghighered.com/.   The Change Leader's Social Media Links   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrumm/ Twitter: @thechangeldr Email: podcast@changinghighered.com   #GraduateEnrollment #StretegicEnrollmentManagement #HigherEducation

Dr. Leslie Bauer is the Medical Director at Emergency Pet Clinic in San Antonio, Texas, a Thrive Pet Healthcare partner. She is also Thrive's Director of House Officer Training Programs and ER Academy National Director. Dr. Bauer earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Georgia. She completed a small animal internship at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School prior to joining the Emergency Pet Clinic. She is certified as a Diplomate by the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (ABVP) in Canine and Feline Medicine and is also a certified veterinary acupuncturist from the Chi Institute in Florida.

On our seventeenth episode, Erin welcomes Whitney Godwin, Project Manager at WVU's Purpose Center, to chat about how graduate students can find their passions and purpose to make the most out of their graduate school experience. Key topics for this episode include: 1) what the WVU Purpose Center is, 2) how to be proactive about combatting imposter syndrome as a graduate student, and 3) how WVU students, faculty, and staff have utilized the WVU Purpose Center to best succeed. If you are interested in graduate education at West Virginia University, please visit our website at www.graduateadmissions.wvu.edu. Don't forget to subscribe to our blog or download one of our online resource guides for more information about the GRE, specific career industries, tips on how to submit your strongest graduate application and more!If you enjoyed or found value in this podcast, please leave a review on your favorite listening platform or follow us on the following social media networks:FacebookTwitter (X)InstagramYou can register for either of our campus visit experiences here!

About the Guest Daniel Linhares, DVM, MBA, PhD After 8 years of field experience in Brazil, he joined Iowa State University in 2015 and serves as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Education. Daniel works with the Field Epi team (www.fieldepi.org), which includes 25 professionals centered on graduate education and professional services on development and […]

Joining the PigX Podcast this month are Dr. Chris Rademacher, a Swine Extension Veterinarian and the AssociateDirector for the Iowa Pork Industry Center, and Dr. Daniel Linhares, an Associate Professor and theDirector of Graduate Education for Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Take a listen to hear Chris and Daniel discussing past outbreak management programs for the PRRS virus.

Speech Language Pathology: Continuing Education Courses by SLP Nerdcast Course Title: Mental Health and Supervision: Perspectives on Supervision of Graduate StudentsGet .1 ASHA CEU and view the full course landing page: https://courses.slpnerdcast.com/courses/mental-health-and-supervision-perspectives-on-supervision-of-graduate-students-abje0123Earning Speech-Language Pathology CEUs Online is Simplified with SLP Nerdcast. On SLP Nerdcast you'll find SLP Continuing Education Courses, Masterclasses and Clinical Resources. To learn more about our services visit ▶ https://bit.ly/SLPNERDCAST To learn more about our membership and save 10% on your first year of membership visit ▶ https://bit.ly/SLPNerdcastMembership use code “YouTubeNerd” to save.Learning Objectives:Describe practices that support the mental health needs of graduate studentsDescribe Anderson's continuum and how feedback changes throughout the clinical education processIdentify at least 6 characteristics of effective feedbackReferences & Resources:Evans, T.M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J.B., Wiss, L.T., & Vanderford, N.L. (2018). Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education. Nature Biotechnology, 36, 282-284.Gonzalo, J. D., Heist, B. S., Duffy, B. L., Dyrbye, L., Fagan, M. J., Ferenchick, G., Harrell, H., Hemmer, P. A., Kernan, W. N., Kogan, J. R., Rafferty, C., Wong, R., & Elnicki, M. D. (2014). Content and timing of feedback and reflection: A multi-center qualitative study of experienced bedside teachers. BMC Medical Education, 14(1).​Lara, Mogensen, & Markuns. (2016). Effective Feedback in the Education of Health Professionals. Support Line. 38(2); 3-8.​Lieberman, R., Raisor-Becker, L, Sotto C., & Redle, E. (2018). Investigation of Graduate Student Stress in Speech Language Pathology. Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2(2) Article 6.Malandraki, J. (2022 November 21) From My Perspective/Opinion: The Cost of Overlooking Mental Health in Graduate Education. ASHA LeaderLive. https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FMP.26052021.8/full/McCready, V., Raleigh, L., Schober-Peterson, D., & Wegner, J. (2016). Feedback: What's new and different? Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 1(11), 73–80. ​Nottingham & Henning. (2014) Feedback in Clinical Education, Part I: Characteristics of Feedback Provided by Approved Clinical Instructors. Journal of Athletic Training. 49(1); 49-57.​Nottingham & Henning. (2014) Feedback in Clinical Education, Part II: Approved Clinical Instructor and Student Perceptions of and Influences on Feedback. Journal of Athletic Training. 49(1); 58-67. ​Nunes, P., Williams, S., Sa, B., Stevenson, K., (2011) A Study of Empathy decline in students from five health disciplines during their first year of training. International Journal of Medical Education. 2; 12-17.Ramani, S & Krackov, SK. (2012). Twelve tips for giving feedback effectively in the clinical environment. Medical Teacher. 34; 787-791. ​Rice, S. (2017) Stress and the Surfboard. The ASHA Leader. 22(6).Rizzolo, D. & Massey, S., (2020) Fluctuations in STress Over Time During the First Year of Health Science Programs. Journal of Allied Health. 49(2); 120-124.Tilstra, J., Coffman, M., Gonia, T., Koziol, C., Liebe, E. (2019). Communication Sciences and Disorders Graduate Students' Strengths and Vulnerabilities Related to Resilience: A Survey of Graduate Programs. The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice. Walden, P. R. & Gordon-Pershey, M. (2013). Applying Adult Experiential Learning Theory to Clinical Supervision: A Practical Guide for Supervisors and Supervisees. Perspectives on Administration and Supervision. 23(3); 121-144.Weiland, D., & Kucirk, B. (2020) Helicopter Parenting and the Mental Health of iGen College Students. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services. 58(5); 16-22.Zylla-Jones, E. (2009). Feedback in Supervision. ASHA – Perspectives on Administration and Supervision. 19-24.

Dr. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (Bioengineering, Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education) discusses how to respond to paper submission reviews, from minor to major revisions. Clearly and respectfully articulate the revisions you have made and explain the reasoning for any changes not made, whether in response to constructive criticism or a rejection. Finally, learn how to select thoughtful reviewers and what to consider in choosing the right journals for your publications.Read the episode transcript here.Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/)

When is the right time to complete a PhD?  What topics will sustain your interest?  In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness.  Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and remote living, working and researching.

Dr. Howard Hall is the Director for the UT Institute for Nuclear Security. He holds a joint appointment with Consolidated Nuclear Security (Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, TX), and serves as Professor in both the Department of Nuclear Engineering and the Bredesen Center For Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. Professor Hall is also a Senior Fellow in Global Security Policy at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee.Professor Hall received his Ph.D. in Nuclear and Radiochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989; and his BS in Chemistry from the College of Charleston in 1985. Prior to joining UT, Dr. Hall spent more than 20 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California, where he led major scientific and operational missions in nuclear and homeland security. During his tenure at LLNL, Dr. Hall led efforts supporting US Government programs in aviation safety and security, nuclear threat detection and nuclear emergency response.In 2005, Dr. Hall was part of the team awarded the Department of Homeland Security/Science and Technology Directorate Under Secretary's Award for Science. Professor Hall is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education, the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, and holds the rank of Fellow in the American Institute of Chemists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.EPISODE NOTES:Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCastEmail comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.orgSubscribe to NucleCast podcastRate the show

We talk to Josue David Cisneros, Patrick Earl Hammie, and Jorge Lucero from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign about the future of graduate education. We discuss the problems facing contemporary graduate students and our guests' efforts to reimagine and recreate graduate school as an inclusive space where students can thrive through the Interseminars Initiative. This episode is part of an ongoing series titled THE FUTURE OF…, where we chat with experts in various sectors to learn about what they are doing to shift the critical now for a radical new future.Links:Website: Interseminar Event Series

With nearly 53 years living and working in Oak Ridge, TN, Ray Smith has developed an extensive understanding and appreciation of the heritage of Oak Ridge's history, especially the Manhattan Project era and resulting technological advances during ensuing years. For the last 10 years of his 47-year career with the Y-12 National Security Complex, he served as the official Y-12 Historian. Ray now serves as the Historian for the city of Oak Ridge, TN. He was appointed to that position in December 2015.Ray has co-produced the award-winning and highly acclaimed Secret City: The War Years and Secret City: 1945–2006 documentary films that have become the definitive history of Oak Ridge. He has also produced a four-episode television series of 30-minute programs on the history of the Y-12 National Security Complex, A Nuclear Family, which has won four platinum Remi awards in the World Fest-Houston International Film Festival. He completed the compilation of twelve documentary short films including the award winning Our Hidden Past series into a two DVD set, Y-12 Anthology. His most recent documentary film, produced in January 2018, is Ed Westcott– Photographer, a tribute to the famous Manhattan Project and Department of Energy photographer without whose exceptional photographs our Oak Ridge and DOE history would not be nearly so well documented. The documentary film can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvzw9f8M8A.In 2017, Ray was appointed a commissioner on the Tennessee Historical Commission and is now serving his second three-year term. He has served on several boards for charitable organizations, one a state level board, The Tennessee Children's Home, of which he is currently the past chairman. He is also on the board of directors of the East Tennessee Historical Society and the nation board of directors of the Atomic Heritage Foundation. In 2018, Ray assisted Dr. Lee Riedinger, Professor of Physics and Director, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee, teach an honors course, Science and History of the Manhattan Project. The course materials have formed the basis of a book to be published in 2024, Critical Connections, How Partnerships formed at the Dawn of the Atomic Age Helped Transform a University, a National Laboratory, and a City.Ray is the author of 18 books of Historically Speaking newspaper columns published over the past 17 years.He has published 10 books of local nature photographs, produced a 40-image photographic show and was chosen as the exclusive source to provide photographs to decorate the TownePlace Hotel as well as a portion of the Y-12 Federal Credit Union. His photographs also decorate other offices in Oak Ridge and some company websites.EPISODE NOTES:Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCastEmail comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.orgSubscribe to NucleCast podcastRate the show

With nearly 53 years living and working in Oak Ridge, TN, Ray has developed an extensive understanding and appreciation of the heritage of Oak Ridge's history, especially the Manhattan Project era and resulting technological advances during ensuing years. For the last 10 years of his 47-year career with the Y-12 National Security Complex, he served as the official Y-12 Historian.Ray now serves as the Historian for the city of Oak Ridge, TN. He was appointed to that position in December 2015. Ray has co-produced the award-winning and highly acclaimed Secret City: The War Years and Secret City: 1945–2006 documentary films that have become the definitive history of Oak Ridge. He has also produced a four-episode television series of 30-minute programs on the history of the Y-12 National Security Complex, A Nuclear Family, which has won four platinum Remi awards in the World Fest-Houston International Film Festival. He completed the compilation of twelve documentary short films including the award winning Our Hidden Past series into a two DVD set, Y-12 Anthology. His most recent documentary film, produced in January 2018, is Ed Westcott– Photographer, a tribute to the famous Manhattan Project and Department of Energy photographer without whose exceptional photographs our Oak Ridge and DOE history would not be nearly so well documented. The documentary film can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvzw9f8M8A.In 2017, Ray was appointed a commissioner on the Tennessee Historical Commission and is now serving his second three-year term. He has served on several boards for charitable organizations, one a state level board, The Tennessee Children's Home, of which he is currently the past chairman. He is also on the board of directors of the East Tennessee Historical Society and the nation board of directors of the Atomic Heritage Foundation. In 2018, Ray assisted Dr. Lee Riedinger, Professor of Physics and Director, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education at the University of Tennessee, teach an honors course, Science and History of the Manhattan Project. The course materials have formed the basis of a book to be published in 2024, Critical Connections, How Partnerships formed at the Dawn of the Atomic Age Helped Transform a University, a National Laboratory, and a City.Ray is the author of 18 books of Historically Speaking newspaper columns published over the past 17 years. He has published 10 books of local nature photographs, produced a 40-image photographic show and was chosen as the exclusive source to provide photographs to decorate the TownePlace Hotel as well as a portion of the Y-12 Federal Credit Union. His photographs also decorate other offices in Oak Ridge and some company websites.EPISODE NOTES:Follow NucleCast on Twitter at @NucleCastEmail comments and story suggestions to NucleCast@anwadeter.orgSubscribe to NucleCast podcastRate the show

Watch this episode on Youtube It's back to school season and we invited special guest Aide Hernandez @Gradconmigo to share her journey in pursuing a PhD as a First-Gen Latina. She shares her knowledge in getting into programs, scholarships and resources in order to navigate academia from a graduate level. Lea also shares her journey in earning her Masters and how the need for a community like Gradconmigo is so necessary for First-Gen students. If you are thinking about earning your Masters or a higher level of education, this episode is for you! Aidé is a Sociology PhD student in Chicago. She is the founder of Gradconmigo, an online community that mentors prospective and current graduate students. She shared her journey as a first-gen Latina navigating academia.  Follow her on Tiktok  Follow her on IG -----  New episodes out every Monday! Follow & Subscribe to Mi Riqueza Podcast to get notified of each episode drop. Don't forget to also follow us on social media @latinawealthactivist @miriquezapodcast @theriquezaco to get the latest financial content & community updates. -----  Join our Free Riqueza Community: The Riqueza Club where we host workshops, events and our Crecer Book Club! Go to www.theriquezaco.com/club to join! 

As institutions look to grow and diversify programs and revenue ahead of the projected enrollment cliff, online education has become even more critical to the enrollment arsenal. But for many campuses, scaling online education efficiently - and quickly - can be a substantial undertaking with significant cost and resource implications. One solution? Work with an online program management (OPM) company. In this episode, The NAGAP Report co-host Marcus Hanscom sits down with Ray Lutzky, Vice President of University Partnerships at Academic Partnerships, an OPM, to demystify OPM companies and challenge the misconceptions surrounding their role in graduate education. Join us as we examine the complexities, benefits, and challenges associated with partnering with OPM companies, shedding light on the decision-making process for institutions seeking to enhance their online offerings.

Episode Summary: In this episode of WarDocs, we dive into the world of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in military medicine with Army COL Cristin Mount, MD, and LTC(P) Scott Grogan, DO. We discuss the various applications of POCUS in hospital and battlefield settings, as well as training opportunities and its role in graduate education, credentialing, and certification. We explore the practical applications of POCUS in trauma and disease non-battle injuries and its role in evacuation decision-making. Additionally, we examine the challenges surrounding POCUS privileges and the future of POCUS in combat casualty care, focusing on telehealth and artificial intelligence integration. Join us as we delve into the impact of POCUS on patient-provider relationships and the potential for further improvement in military medicine.   Chapters:   (0:00:00) - Point of Care Ultrasound (0:12:28) - Ultrasound Use in Military Medicine (0:25:44) - Privileging for Point of Care Ultrasound (0:31:20) - Ultrasound for Military Careers (0:43:52) - Reimagining Patient-Provider Interactions   Chapter Summaries:   (0:00:00) - Point of Care Ultrasound (12 Minutes) In this episode of WarDocs, we explore the use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in military medicine with Army COL Cristin Mount, MD, and LTC(P) Scott Grogan, DO. They discuss the various applications of POCUS in both hospital and battlefield settings, as well as training opportunities and its role in graduate education, credentialing, and certification. The conversation highlights how POCUS can improve care at far-forward medical facilities in combat zones and provides a vision for future utilization.   (0:12:28) - Ultrasound Use in Military Medicine (13 Minutes) In this portion of the conversation, we delve into the practical applications of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in trauma and disease non-battle injuries, as well as its role in evacuation decision-making. We also discuss the military's process of field testing and acquiring equipment, the current state of documentation, and the integration of POCUS images into electronic health records. The development of a standardized workflow and infrastructure for POCUS is also touched upon, highlighting the potential for further improvement in Military Medicine     (0:25:44) - Privileging for Point of Care Ultrasound (6 Minutes) We discuss the current state of encounter-based workflows for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), highlighting that while the technology is still in its early stages, it is being worked on at the DHA level and will eventually be widely available. The conversation also touches on the challenges surrounding POCUS privileges, the need for more specific privileges, and the importance of demonstrating competency before implementing them. In addition, we examine the role of POCUS in Individual Critical Task Lists (ICTLs), noting that it is primarily used in trauma and procedure-based situations, but its application may evolve as POCUS becomes more prevalent in Military Medicine   (0:31:20) - Ultrasound for Military Careers (13 Minutes) We examine the training and certification programs available for healthcare providers who are already out of their Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs and wish to learn point of care ultrasound (POCUS). The conversation touches upon the need for practice and supervision in POCUS training and how the military GME programs differ from civilian counterparts. The future of POCUS in combat casualty care is also discussed, with a focus on telehealth and artificial intelligence integration.   (0:43:52) - Reimagining Patient Provider Interactions (7 Minutes) In this part of the discussion, we explore the impact of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) on the patient-provider relationship and share personal epiphanies from our experiences with the technology. We reflect on how POCUS has brought healthcare providers closer to their patients, allowing for more hands-on, bedside interaction and improving diagnostic decision-making. Furthermore, we discuss how POCUS has provided unexpected benefits, such as helping to determine whether a critically ill patient needs to be transported for further imaging, thereby reducing risks associated with transport of the critically ill patient.   Episode Keywords: Point of Care Ultrasound, POCUS, Military Medicine, Battlefield Medicine, Ultrasound Training, Graduate Education, Credentialing, Certification, Trauma Care, Disease Non-Battle Injuries, Evacuation Decision-Making, POCUS Privileges, Combat Casualty Care, Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence Integration, Patient-Provider Relationship, Healthcare Providers, Diagnostic Decision-Making, Ultrasound Equipment   #POCUS #MilitaryMedicine #Ultrasound   Honoring the Legacy and Preserving the History of Military Medicine   The WarDocs Mission is to improve military and civilian healthcare and foster patriotism by honoring the legacy, preserving the oral history, and showcasing military medicine career opportunities, experiences, and achievements.     Find out more and join Team WarDocs at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/   Check our list of previous guest episodes at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/episodes   Listen to the “What We Are For” Episode 47. https://bit.ly/3r87Afm   WarDocs- The Military Medicine Podcast is a Non-Profit, Tax-exempt-501(c)(3) Veteran Run Organization run by volunteers. All donations are tax-deductible, and 100% of donations go to honoring and preserving the history, experiences, successes, and lessons learned in military medicine. A tax receipt will be sent to you.   WARDOCS documents the experiences, contributions, and innovations of all military medicine Services, ranks, and Corps who are affectionately called "Docs" as a sign of respect, trust, and confidence on and off the battlefield, demonstrating dedication to the medical care of fellow comrades in arms.           Follow Us on Social Media Twitter: @wardocspodcast Facebook: WarDocs Podcast Instagram: @wardocspodcast LinkedIn: WarDocs-The Military Medicine Podcast

We welcome the 2023 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant recipient Samuel G. Berryman, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), as our guest.The SLAS grant will support Berryman's research in developing and designing technologies for studying Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, a cell type used for a novel form of cancer therapy.Listen as Berryman shares his research goals and how he thought outside the box to fill the room for his SLAS2023 student presentation.  The SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant directly supports outstanding students pursuing graduate degrees related to life sciences R&D. This program helps realize a fundamental tenet of SLAS's mission: to advance the fields of laboratory science and technology by nurturing the next generation of professional scientists. For more information on SLAS awards and grants, visit https://www.slas.org/careers/awards-and-grants/slas-graduate-education-fellowship-grant/.Stay connected with SLASOnline at www.slas.orgFacebookTwitter @SLAS_OrgLinkedInInstagram @slas_orgYouTubeAbout SLASSLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) is an international professional society of academic, industry and government life sciences researchers and the developers and providers of laboratory automation technology. The SLAS mission is to bring together researchers in academia, industry and government to advance life sciences discovery and technology via education, knowledge exchange and global community building.  For more information about SLAS, visit www.slas.org.Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS 2023 Microscales Innovation in Life Sciences Symposium September 14-15, 2023 La Jolla, CA, USA SLAS 2023 Sample Management Symposium October 12-13, 2023 Washington, D.C., USA SLAS 2023 Data Sciences and AI Symposium November 14-15, 2023 Basel, Switzerland SLAS2024 International Conference and Exhibition February 3-7, 2024 Boston, MA, USA

Chad Mirkin is the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, Prof. of Materials Science & Engineering, and Prof. of Medicine at Northwestern University.He is a chemist and a world-renowned nanoscience expert, who is known for his discovery and development of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) and SNA-based biodetection and therapeutic schemes, the invention of Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) and related cantilever-free nanopatterning methodologies, On-Wire Lithography (OWL), Co-Axial Lithography (COAL), and contributions to supramolecular chemistry and nanoparticle synthesis. He is the author of over 850 manuscripts and over 1,200 patent applications worldwide (over 400 issued), and the founder of multiple companies, including Nanosphere, AuraSense, TERA-print, Azul 3D, MattIQ, and Flashpoint Therapeutics.Mirkin has been recognized for his accomplishments with over 250 national and international awards. These include the King Faisal Prize in Science, the Faraday Medal, UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in Life Sciences, Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, the SCI Perkin Medal, Friendship Award, Nano Research Award, AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Award, Richards Award and Medal, Harrison Howe Award, the Remsen Award, Ralph N. Adams Award, the Dickson Prize in Science, the RUSNANOPRIZE, the Nichols Medal, the 2016 Dan David Prize, the inaugural NAS Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, the RSC Centenary Prize, the Friends of the National Library of Medicine Distinguished Medical Science Award, the 2014 National Security Science and Engineering Fellowship (NSSEFF) Award, the 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (2002-2012), the ACS Nano Lectureship Award for the Americas, the Vittorio deNora Award (The Electrochemical Society), the Linus Pauling Medal, the Thomson Reuters “Nobel-Class” Citation Laureate, RSC's “Chemistry World” Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Honorary Membership in the Materials Research Society of India, the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, an Honorary Degree from Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore, recognition as the Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor to Singapore, an Honorary Professorship from Hunan Univ. China, the ACS Award for Creative Invention, the Herman S. Bloch Award for Scientific Excellence in Industry, an Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Edward Mack Jr. Memorial Award, the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Havinga Medal, the Gustavus John Esselen Award, the Biomedical Eng. Society's Distinguished Achievement Award, a DoD NSSEFF Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, the iCON Innovator of the Year Award, a NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the Collegiate Inventors Award, an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Dickinson College, the Pennsylvania State Univ. Outstanding Science Alumni Award, the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, a Dickinson College Metzger-Conway Fellowship, the 2003 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Award, Crain's Chicago Business “40 under 40 Award,” the Discover 2000 Award for Technological Innovation, I-Street Magazine's Top 5 List for Leading Academics in Technology, the Materials Research Society Young Investigator Award, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the PLU Fresenius Award, the Harvard University E. Bright Wilson Prize, the BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, the DuPont Young Professor Award, the NSF Young Investigator Award, the Naval Young Investigator Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award.Mirkin served as a Member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (Obama Administration) for eight years, and he is one of very few scientists to be elected to all three US National Academies (Medicine, Science, and Engineering), and in addition, he is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Materials Research Society, and others. Mirkin has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of over 30 scholarly journals, including JACS, Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Biomacromolecules, Macromolecular Bioscience, SENSORS, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Chem. Eur. J., Chemistry & Biology, Nanotechnology Law & Business, The Scientist, J. Mater. Chem., J. Cluster Sci., and Plasmonics. He is the founding editor of the journal Small, one of the premier international nanotechnology journals, and he has co-edited multiple bestselling books. Mirkin holds a B.S. degree from Dickinson College (1986, elected into Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Penn. State Univ. (1989). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT prior to becoming a professor at Northwestern Univ. in 1991.Alix Ventures, by way of BIOS Community, is providing this content for general information purposes only. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement nor recommendation by Alix Ventures, BIOS Community, or its affiliates. The views & opinions expressed by guests are their own & their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them nor any entity they represent. Views & opinions expressed by Alix Ventures employees are those of the employees & do not necessarily reflect the view of Alix Ventures, BIOS Community, affiliates, nor its content sponsors.Thank you for listening!BIOS (@BIOS_Community) unites a community of Life Science innovators dedicated to driving patient impact. Alix Ventures (@AlixVentures) is a San Francisco based venture capital firm supporting early stage Life Science startups engineering biology to create radical advances in human health.Music: Danger Storm by Kevin MacLeod (link & license)

It's another special episode of Raise the Line, where we have the honor of speaking with Susan Spielberg, overall winner of the Student Advisor category in the 2022 Osmosis Raise the Line Faculty Awards. Chosen from a pool of over 1,000 nominees representing 377 institutions worldwide, Susan truly embodies the six core values of Osmosis, as evidenced by the glowing testimonials and videos submitted by her students and colleagues. Join host Michael Carrese as he dives into Susan's educational career and her current role at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she serves as a student advisor across the pharmacy and dental schools. In this engaging conversation, Susan shares her approach which involves proactively seeking out those who may be hesitant to ask for help. "I find that many people have difficulty asking for help. That's why I feel the need to go out and find them." Tune in to learn more about the types of support students increasingly need, why she thinks teaching the affective is just as important as academics, and why she's known as the “grandma” of LECOM.Mentioned in this episode: www.osmosis.org/faculty-awards

Welcome to Episode 103 of the Think UDL podcast: Active Learning Online with Joanne Ricevuto and Laura McLaughlin. Joanne Ricevuto is the Assistant Vice President of Instructional Success at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Laura McLaughlin is the Director of Graduate Education at Neumann University in Aston, PA. Together they have co-authored the book Engaging Virtual Environments: Creative Ideas and Online Tools to Promote Student Interaction, Participation, and Active Learning published by Stylus Publishing. Laura and Joanne have put together a jam-packed resource for online instructors that discusses the many roles an online instructor must take on to lead an effective course. They also offer multiple ways to interact with students in synchronous and asynchronous settings. I have already enjoyed this book so much and I was honored to be asked to write the foreword for it. Join today's thoughtful conversation and learn about multiple ways to engage your students online!

In this episode, we resume our conversation with Dr. Sean Freeland, who joined the faculty at Carlow University in 2022. As part of his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Freeland taught one section of Creative Inquiry, the capstone course in the Masters of Education program. The three of us who host Speaking of Education have developed and taught this course for a number of years. We thought it would be interesting to hear Dr. Freeland's impressions of the course and its role in helping teachers to become scholar-practitioners. 

When a college leader assumes his/her presidency for the first time, I've often wondered how they begin to understand the complexities of college athletics. Nearly 90% of sitting presidents rise to the position from the academic side of the house- where do they learn about athletics? In 2023, there are so many challenges and choices for presidents to make, that it can seem daunting. How do new presidents go about learning how things work (beyond wins and losses) in the business of college sports? Do they just listen and take directives from their athletics director? Or do they work to insert the values and mission of the institution into their athletics departments? And how do presidents work to understand the Conference and national issues impacting college sports today? My guests today are two long time professional colleagues and friends. Ana Mari Cauce is the 33rd president of the University of Washington where she has been a member of the faculty since 1986. She is a member of the Pac-12 Conference executive leadership team, and was a part of the group that hired current Commissioner George Kliavkoff. She is deeply aware of the fast changing dynamics in Power 5 and Pac-12 programs. James Soto Antony is the Dean, Division of Graduate Education, and Professor, Education Studies at the University of California San Diego. Along with Ana Mari, he is a co-editor of The College President Handbook: A Sustainable and Practical Guide for Emerging Leaders, a dynamic book published in 2022 that includes relevant information for new Presidents across many of their responsibilities. Jim has closely followed the changes in college athletics in the last 20 years as a researcher, and was the founder of the University of Washington's Center for Leadership in Athletics.

Dr. Anupam Chakravarty is a researcher whose research interests have straddled the disciplines of biochemistry and genomics with a keen focus on the biology of cancer. Currently, he is a senior scientist developing liquid biopsy assays and products in the precision oncology space at Guardant Health. Prior to joining Guardant Health, he ran his own lab as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He obtained his Ph.D. from Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City and was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation fellow at Stanford University. Anupam is motivated by a strong sense of community building and being deeply invested in the graduate education landscape. He is building and managing a global community of graduate students - GradGrid on Linkedin. He lives in the Bay area with his wife and a cat, enjoys the outdoors, and has a strong academic interest in learning about the world through the lens of postage stamps. In this episode, we discuss the nuances of leaving a professorship to pursue industry research, the landscape of careers in graduate education, and the benefits of being a part of the GradGrid community.Hosted by Joe Varriale.

Aubrey Blanche: Always ask how it could be more equitable. This is really core to the practice in what I teach. My theory of change is called equitable design, and it's really based in these beliefs that every decision, every action, or for every event, experience, program, system, product can either create greater or less equity. And I believe that the most powerful thing each of us can do is do the next slightly more right thing.   Oscar Trimboli: Deep listening, impact beyond words. Good day. I'm Oscar Trimboli and this is the Apple award-winning podcast, Deep Listening, designed to move you from a distracted listener to a deep and impactful leader. Did you know you spend 55% of your day listening, yet only 2% of people have ever been taught how? In each episode we explore the five levels of listening. Communication is 50% speaking and 50% listening. Yet, as a leader, you are taught only the importance of communication from the perspective of how to speak. It's critical you start to build some muscles for the next phase in how to listen. The cost of not listening, it's confusion, it's conflict, it's projects running over schedule. It's lost customers, it's great employees that leave before they want to. When you implement the strategies, the tips and tactics that you'll hear, you'll get four hours a week back in your schedule. I wonder what you could do with an extra four hours or a week. Aubrey Blanche is a math nerd and an empath who helps organizations build equitable processes, products and experiences. Her work combines an empathetic and intersectional approach with social scientific methods to create meaningful and sustainable change From fair talent processes and bias resistant product design to equitable algorithmic design and communication strategy. She helps organizations to think holistically about evolving to meet the needs of a rapidly diversifying and globalizing world. Aubrey and I explore listening for differences, practical steps you can implement in your organization to listen for the data of performance and equity while being conscious of change over time. That's the performance implication of listening for velocity. Aubrey changed my mind about my choice of where to spend my time in our deep listening quest and the consequences of choosing who and where I place my attention. Let's listen to Aubrey. What's the cost of not listening?   Aubrey Blanche: In the worst case scenarios, it's that you do actual harm to another person. In the work that I do, I'm so often talking to people, working with people, trying to support people who are very different from me. If I'm not able to listen deeply, there is a big chance that I contribute to them still not feeling heard. I work with marginalized people who are often unheard in the world, and so I can do harm by exacerbating that. Or if I'm not listening deeply, I can develop a solution that doesn't actually meet the need that's being articulated and could actually be harmful in some way. Listening is the first thing that we do when we want to support other people, when you scale it out, really, it's how we build a better world when we listen and we build a worse world when we don't.   Oscar Trimboli: Jennifer, a retired primary school teacher is a stay at home mom and her son, Christopher at the age of three, comes home from school. Jennifer says to Christopher, "What did you learn at school today, honey?" He said, "Mommy, mommy, I'm so excited. I learned the three is half of eight." Now Jennifer's a little confused. And as a former primary school teacher says, "Could you say that again, honey?" And he said, "Yeah, mommy, I learned that three is half of eight." Well, Jennifer puts her hands in her face and kind of shakes her head and she goes to the cupboard and she gets eight M&Ms out of the cupboard and lines them up on the kitchen table. She puts four M&M soldiers in one line and four M&M soldiers in another. She picks Christopher up and puts him on the kitchen table and says, "Honey, how many M&M soldiers in this row?" And he goes, "One, two, three, four, Mommy." And she goes, "How many on the other side?" He goes, "Mum, I don't need to count, there's four. They're all facing each other." And she says, "You see, honey, three is not half of eight, four is half of eight." With that, Christopher jumped off the table, went and grabbed a piece of paper, drew the figure eight, altered it in half, tore it in half vertically and showed it to his mum and said, "Mommy, see three is half of eight." In that moment in time, Jennifer realized that her son was neuro-diverse, non-neuro-typical. I'm curious, Aubrey, as you hear that story and you are in workplaces where people are obsessed with telling everybody else that four is half of eight and they're wrong because of their culture, their background, their professional experience, what do you take from the story?   Aubrey Blanche: I love that story. I think in math a lot of times, and I was like, "Oh, she's thinking in arithmetic and he's thinking in geometry almost, right? And shapes." In so many organizations, there's this homogenization that happens and I come from the tech industry where innovation is the thing, and often when you start from the premise that you don't know anything, you're actually able to better see that there's an assumption that like, "Oh, you're speaking in arithmetics, that four is half of eight," but Christopher didn't say that. He didn't say how. And so I see it as there was an assumption that led to a misunderstanding or I guess to put it in your language, an assumption that led to an inability to hear, an inability to listen. When I approach something like that, because I try, and I say try because I am certainly imperfect and fail at this at times, but if I hear something that's surprising or that doesn't align with my experience or what I know, the first thing I try to say is, "Can you tell me more about that?" Because what I've found is when I just ask someone for more but don't put constraints on what more means, they will take me down the path that they came from and it's usually not one I would've found or walked on my own. And often when you open it up for someone to continue sharing with you, you get that context. And so you have that realization that in the situation is, "Oh three is half of eight. How amazing." And I think that's true of neuro-diverse people in general, but maybe a spicy idea. I'm starting to believe that there's no such thing as neuro-diversity. Not that there aren't people with different ways of thinking, but it seems like every day there's someone new that I meet that identifies as neuro-diverse to the point where I'm like, "I think we might all just be different, and we might have been living in this collected delusion that there was something called neuro-typically in the first place." Speaking as someone who is neuro-diverse herself, I'm bipolar type one. Yeah, I really believe that we should start with the assumption that other people have lived and walked different paths and have entirely different ways of thinking and perceiving than we do. And if that is the first and only assumption that we make, I think we hear better, we listen better, but we also learn more and grow more as people.   Oscar Trimboli: One of the phrases I loved hearing from another conversation you had is "diversify your inputs". For me, the way I make that practical is on the weekend when I'm gardening and mowing the lawn, I am listening to podcasts from presenters that I absolutely fiercely disagree with. And for me it's a really humbling process that I've been doing for seven years now to make sure that I'm diversifying my inputs. What advice would you give for leaders out there to diversify their inputs in the workplace and outside so they can start to build muscles where they're listening not just for similarities, four is half of eight, but also to listen for difference where three is half of eight and zero is half of eight as well?   Aubrey Blanche: I think for me in my line of work, this might not be surprising, but I would start because difference can mean a lot of things. Some of the most impactful and important listening that we do is across lines of difference that have to do with privilege. When I think about I'm someone who has a big combination of privileged and marginalized identities, and I have absolutely learned the most when I have thought. As an example, I grew up in a middle, upper middle class household. And so for me, listening across that line of privilege, listening to someone who grew up poor or working class, I have learned more about the world and about humanity from thoughtfully and intentionally creating space in my listening diet for those types of perspectives. The advice that I would give to folks if you're non-disabled, listen to disabled experiences. If you're a man, listen to the experiences of people from marginalized genders. If you're a white listen to people of color. I am a very funny mix of identities. I'm white assumed, but I'm Latina and mixed race, but so I have this weird experience of both being a white person and being a non-white person in the American context. I was in a program in graduate school, so I pursued a PhD that I didn't finish, and I was putting on a program called Enhancing Diversity and Graduate Education, and it was for Black and Latinx students in the social sciences, and I was very intimidated to be in this room. You have to understand the people I was with were just so intellectually impressive. I did not feel like I had much to say in that room, but it was in that room listening to the experiences of the Black students in particular who experience a level of racism that I will never personally understand, that I began to actually understand racism as a system and as a social concept rather than as an individual problem because... So growing up for me, I had been teased by kids at school who would slam my locker and tell me, "Oh, you're the Mexican and that's why we do this." But I always thought that was an Aubrey problem. And listening to these incredibly brilliant students talk about the racism that they were facing on a daily basis, who I knew didn't deserve it because no one would deserve to be treated the way that they were describing, I not only learned to have more empathy and understanding for the ways that I could show up as an ally of people from that experience, but I actually more deeply understood my own life experience as well. And it was through that I began to articulate the ways that I belonged in my community and the ways that I felt upon in my community. If I had been talking in that whole meeting, I never would've heard those things that are now in the work I do. Probably some of the most fundamental things I've ever learned in terms of how they animate my work and my theory of change. I was a little late to my racial consciousness, but it came from listening to people who are more marginalized than me and it opened up my eyes to the way the world truly is, which personally inspired me to say, "Well, if it is this way, they built it this way. We can build it different if we make different choices."   Oscar Trimboli: As the Mathpath, managers in workplaces can intersect with volumes of data around performance of their organization, of their people, the intersection of those two, how does a manager listen to the data and turn it into insights and the information and action? How do they prioritize this tsumani of information that they have at their fingertips today so that they can make progress on listening to difference in a way that's actionable?   Aubrey Blanche: They call me the Mathpath, which is a bit of a Mathpath, which is a bit of a portmanteau of math nerd and empath, and it was something that someone actually coined for me after listening to me for quite a while and specifically listening to me articulate this challenge I was having where I didn't know how to sum up my approach to doing my work. So it's very much based in academic science and mathematics and it's very analytical and rigorous in that way, but also very much grounded in this belief in the dignity and the value of individual people's stories. I want to use quantitative information but not get lost in it because I am a big believer that is N=1 stories are just as important and powerful and someone's like, "Oh, you're a Mathpath." My brain exploded because I said, "Oh, that's what I've been trying to say." When I think about, or the managers that I'm coaching is like, "How do managers take a little bit of that energy and build it into what their version of that looks like?" I always say, "Look at quantitative data as suggestions that show you where to look for, or you might say, show you where to listen." One of the challenges that pops up in equity work all the time is you're dealing with what we call small n-sized data. So the fact is we're dealing with marginalized people who are often underrepresented. And so we don't always get the statistical power that we want to get this certainty that we crave out of data. What I always coach managers and my clients is that even if the data isn't statistically significant, it's directional and it tells you where to look deeper. I always encourage managers to look at women of colors' experience first because if there's some kind of dysfunction happening in your organization, it's going to impact them first. They're the canaries in the coalmine. If something isn't working for Black women in your organization, it's objectively a problem that it's impacting them the worst. And so prioritize their experiences and their quality of experience and creating space for their stories. And that's a way that you can solve these broader problems by prioritizing that experience. And it's a little bit backwards from the order of operations that people usually do, but I can tell you that it works. 2020, when I started at CultureAmp, I came in and I said, "We're going to focus on Black women." And the response was, "Well, why don't we focus on women? It's a much bigger category." And I said, "I hear you and no. And the reason we're going to focus on Black women is because their experiences will tell us the actual quality of experience at the organization, and if we improve their experiences, everyone else's experience will improve as well. But if we don't focus on them, they will be left behind and we won't be keeping the commitments that we're making to equity." And what we've seen, it's been, at CultureAmp is over the last two and a half years, we've seen an increase in overall gender representation at the company to the point where the majority of our VPs and executives are now women, including some women of color and the other side of the coin, it shows you where to listen, how do you listen? And I think there's a couple of skills that create the space that allow people to feel safe enough to give stories for you to listen to because especially if you're in a position of power or you're coming from an identity that's majoritarian, there's not a lot of reason that someone might trust you or feel safe enough with you to tell you their story. The first thing that you do is you state your intention. So when I'm in a one-on-one conversation with someone and I perceive where I know that they're across that line of marginalization for me. I say, "Hey, I want you to know it's really important to me that I create a safe environment for you to be open and honest with me, but I don't expect you to trust me. I expect that I have to earn that trust, but I want you to know that that's my goal." The second piece is articulate for your ignorance. So I always say, "I don't know your experience and I don't want to presume to, but I'm grateful to you for sharing it with me so that you could help me with some of my blind spots if you are willing." And I think that those two things build a lot of safety that may have really brought me a level of storytelling and authentic experience that I just never would've been blessed to be able to hear otherwise.   Oscar Trimboli: We contrast the absolute values in these reports, these data sets, that values are displayed at a point in time, and one of the things that you've pointed out is the value of relativity, and it... some of the relativities that my clients aren't conscious of, I'll sit in meetings which are, I'll use their language, I call them the pre-calibration meetings. These are meetings designed to allocate a fixed pool of compensation in a defined way to a group of people, and they have a group of heuristics to allocate bonuses. And often I'll ask them a series of questions about the pace of change over time rather than the point in time in which they're making a decision. Some people refer to this as the velocity of progress of an individual. Aubrey, what I'm curious about is what advice do you give leaders when they look at the data over time rather than just at a point in time?   Aubrey Blanche: Oh, so good. And you said one of my favorite words, which is velocity, gets me thinking in physics and the dynamism of the systems. I agree with you that having that longitudinal data or that data over time is just more valuable. I hear in those pre-calibration meetings having been worked with or looked at dozens of organizations, is it's always like, "What's the potential of this person?" So that's kind of the natural question, and that's really what you're rewarding. It's this future belief. And what the data would tell us is that past performance is the single greatest predictor of future performance. But one thing, the data often hides, longitudinal data gives you a clearer picture of past performance because one data point doesn't tell you a lot. A very specific example of this with CultureAmp is that in the of summer 2020, a lot of our Black employees were genuinely struggling, as you can imagine, just a horrific time. Asking them to get on a call and sell software or process expense reports was probably not their highest priority. And if we had taken a snapshot of many of their "performance" at that time, it would not have reflected their full body of work. It would've reflected the severe community trauma that they were being impacted by. And so for us, our way of, we think of it as like correcting the data, was that we actually released updated performance standards so that employees that were impacted by significant community trauma, certainly meaning protests and movement for racial justice of COVID-19, our "performance standards" were about articulating your needs to your manager, setting appropriate boundaries, seeking support to deal with that, including and up to taking additional time off. We changed the way the data was measured and collected to make sure that it reflected what we believed was performance in those moments, but we also were able to use previous performance reviews as a way to inform what's the average performance of this person, knowing that there's some contextual things happening in this point in time that might not be representative of their long term trajectory The other thing, I think he asked a great question about what the data hides, and the thing that data often doesn't tell us is the distance traveled. I'm adopted. I was born into a family that had many challenges, so low income, substance abuse disorder, mental health challenges, a lack of money. And I was adopted by a family that didn't have those challenges, but I have dear people in my life who were born into similar situations and didn't have random luck of... basically the randomized controlled experiment of getting with family And so that's distance traveled. The person I'm thinking of is probably equally as successful as I am in terms of career on paper. The data wouldn't show you that they have probably worked significantly harder than I have to get there because I got a bunch of help that I'm grateful for, but I didn't necessarily earn. And so I think that's one thing that we always need to be considering when they're reading this data is, do we know this person well enough to add our context of their distance traveled to achieve what they're achieving? And we can know sociology, we can know history to make some educated guesses. Nothing is a substitute for knowing a person and being able to get to know their distance traveled. That to me speaks to the velocity piece, which is someone who was born in the same circumstance as me and were standing at the same point now, the fact is they have greater velocity than I do and nothing against me, but I would bet on them over me if I were a betting lady.   Oscar Trimboli: CultureAmp's on a massive quest to change workplaces for the better. What advice would you provide to us in the deep listening community in our quest to impact a hundred million deep listeners in the workplace?   Aubrey Blanche: Always ask how it could be more equitable. This is really core to the practice in what I teach. My theory of change is called Equitable Design, and it's really based in this belief that every decision, every action, therefore every event, experience, program, system, product can either create greater or less equity. And I believe that the most powerful thing each of us can do is do the next slightly more right thing. I get a lot of requests for career coaching conversations with people junior in their career, and a lot of these requests come from people in my network whose kids are interested in HR or tech. And I like to say yes to them because I love the opportunity to mentor and support the next generation in how they're coming up, it's so important. But I have a rule. I always ask for the email intro and then I will write back and I will say, "I am so excited to get to meet you and support you on your career journey. I will be happy to schedule once you identify a classmate or colleague of yours who doesn't have the privilege of having a connected parent who I can also provide career mentorship to." And so I'm not saying no to that person, but I'm modeling to them and I'm pointing out that the reason they have access to me is because of privilege and I'm asking them to share that privilege. And selfishly, it means that I get to meet more incredibly interesting, brilliant, talented people who maybe I can offer a bit of advice to. I have found the number of people who have written back to me in even the parents who have said, "Oh my gosh, this is so interesting. I'm going to do this now." And you think of how many people get a little more advice and a little more help than they wouldn't have otherwise. It doesn't always have to be this enormous thing, but if each of us could do something that's just a titch more equitable or titch more fair than it was before, I think that this community with the reach that they have would change the entire world.   Oscar Trimboli: What's the question I should have asked?   Aubrey Blanche: What's the worst thing that you've done when you didn't listen properly?   Oscar Trimboli: And?   Aubrey Blanche: Mm-hmm. I created a workplace in which someone felt there was no one to advocate for them. And it was a situation in which I had a new coworker and they told me about an experience. They had been traveling to visit other team members, and the team member had said something super derogatory to them. And it was one of those things where the team member was not being intentionally malicious, but it was absolutely not okay what they had said. And the first thing out of my mouth was, "I'm sure they didn't mean it that way." And I'm horrified. I'm so embarrassed by the way that I behaved because what I did was I minimized her feeling. I didn't create space for the harm and the sadness and the pain that she experienced in that moment, and she ended up leaving the team less than a year later. I look back and I think if I had actually heard, if I had taken the time to really hear her experience, I would've responded differently. I probably would've acted differently. And I don't know if that would've been a different outcome for her. I can't guarantee that, but I think I can guarantee that her experience would've been better than the one that I created in that moment.   Oscar Trimboli: Aubrey changed my mind about how to listen to and for difference whilst reinforcing the importance of listening for the unsaid. When I said, "What's the question I should have asked?" I noticed a substantial change in Aubrey's tone and her pacing while explaining how the Mathpath learned so much from saying, "I'm sure they didn't mean it that way." Aubrey had the courage to tell this story, and it got me thinking, "How many times have I thought it without saying it, I'm sure they didn't mean it." It's made me more conscious in conversations now, it's one of the elements of the dramatic listening villain. You can take the quiz at www.listeningquiz.com to discover which one is your primary listening barrier. When you move your listening orientation exclusively from attempting to make sense of what they say and adjusting it slightly to an orientation where as a listener you have the curiosity to explore, "How can I, as the listener, help the speaker make sense of what they think, mean, and ultimately where they want to explore?" When you become conscious that the listener helps the speaker change the way they express their thoughts, you'll start to have an impact beyond words. Aubrey was generous enough to share a reflection about what changed during our conversation, and Aubrey will take to her next conversation. She'll explain this at the very end of the episode. I 'm Oscar Trimboli and along with the Deep Listening ambassadors, we're on a quest to create a hundred million deep listeners in the workplace, and you have given us the greatest gift of all. You've listened to us. Thanks for listening. I'm curious what you've noticed about my listening.   Aubrey Blanche: I appreciate it, and I want to take this with me, the beautiful pauses that you put in the conversation. To me it looked like digestion of thoughts and ideas, and so I want to take that with me. It feels like a gift.

 This is a continuation of our conversation from Episode 27, where we introduced  current and past participants in conversations about the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program. In this episode, we discussed the importance of institutional change and the scholars shared their advice for program officers and project leaders on programmatic strategies for advancing equity in the STEM professoriate and for new and prospective scholars on how to thrive as graduate students, postdoctoral scholars or early career faculty members.Our guests include:Dr. Luis De Jesus Baez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University at BuffaloBrianna Gonzalez, Integrative Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate at Stony Brook UniversityGretchen Johnson, Biology Ph.D. Candidate at Howard UniversityDiego Padilla-Garcia, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa BarbaraDr. Lecia Robinson, Assistant Professor of Biology at Tuskegee UniversityDr. Tammi Taylor, Assistant Professor of Biology at Jackson State UniversityDr. Shavonn Whiten, Lead Scientist at Booz Allen HamiltonDr. Michael D. Whitt, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at California State University – San Luis ObispoWhen you listen, please do these three (3) things for me:Take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, leave a 5-STAR RATING, a GREAT REVIEW, and SHARE with others.Follow me and #EngineeringChangePodcast  on Twitter.Visit engineeringchangepodcast.com for more information and to connect with me.

The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program funds teams of institutions that work together to identify, mitigate, and ultimately eradicate, systemic barriers to success for STEM faculty from racially and ethnically minoritized identities while studying, disseminating, and reproducing those strategies to produce large-scale, sustainable change.  This episode features current and past participants in conversations about AGEP program impacts on their success. We discussed the importance of having strong mentoring networks at all stages of our journeys; they shared components of AGEP projects that have translated into professional practice and tangible outcomes for them; and we discussed how AGEP projects foster a sense of community that helps scholars succeed. Our guests include:Dr. Luis De Jesus Baez, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University at BuffaloBrianna Gonzalez, Integrative Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate at Stony Brook UniversityGretchen Johnson, Biology Ph.D. Candidate at Howard UniversityDiego Padilla-Garcia, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa BarbaraDr. Lecia Robinson, Assistant Professor of Biology at Tuskegee UniversityDr. Tammi Taylor, Assistant Professor of Biology at Jackson State UniversityDr. Shavonn Whiten, Lead Scientist at Booz Allen HamiltonDr. Michael D. Whitt, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at California State University – San Luis ObispoWhen you listen, please do these three (3) things for me:Take a moment to SUBSCRIBE, leave a 5-STAR RATING, a GREAT REVIEW, and SHARE with others.Follow me and #EngineeringChangePodcast  on Twitter.Visit engineeringchangepodcast.com for more information and to connect with me.

Dr. Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School. He is an accomplished academic leader, educator, and scholar with nearly three decades in higher education. He was Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Emory University, where he was also Asa Griggs Candler Professor of African American Studies, Distinguished Affiliated Professor of English, and Associated Faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He was NorthwesternUniversity's Dean of The Graduate School, Associate Provost for Graduate Education, and Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, and Performance Studies. He was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. McBride has published several books and essays on connections between race theory, black studies, and identity politics. He is co-founder and co-editor of the James Baldwin Review and co-editor of The New Black Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Academic Leadership Institute and is a member of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. He serves on the Boards of the Institute for International Education and the Dan David Prize. Don't forget to check out my book that inspired this podcast series, The Caring Economy: How to Win With Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Want to listen to more? Find it all on TikTok and YouTube. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

In this program, Erica-Kohl Arenas, Ph.D., discusses the lessons learned so far in her research on how to transform higher education to better support public engagement in academia and shares her personal journey as an engaged scholar. Series: "Critically Human" [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 38281]

Join Carmen Becker and Andie Alexander for the RSP's 400th episode where they discuss the new international MA program at Leibniz University, Hannover.

Christopher Cuttle has had a lifetime in lighting and he has a shelf full of awards and recognitions to reflect it.  Listen to this episode and you'll understand why. Henrik Clausen talks with Kit about his unique way of looking at light and how it's applied to a space. Christopher “Kit” Cuttle, MA, PhD, FCIBSE, FIESANZ, FIESNA, FSLL, is a lighting educator, designer and author. During a long career, he has held the positions of Head of Graduate Education in Lighting at the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; Senior Lecturer at the Schools of Architecture at the University of Auckland, and the Victoria University of Wellington, both in New Zealand; Section Leader in the Daylight Advisory Service, Pilkington Glass; and Lighting Designer with Derek Phillips Associates (now DPA Lighting Consultants), both in the UK.

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book also tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this text includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for primary source documents that will lead readers into a deeper engagement with the material. Unlike similar history books, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction pays careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions. James P. Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. James Hudnut-Beumler is Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Jackson Reinhardt is a graduate of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University. He is currently an independent scholar, freelance writer, and research assistant. You can reach Jackson at jtreinhardt1997@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @JTRhardt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book also tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this text includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for primary source documents that will lead readers into a deeper engagement with the material. Unlike similar history books, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction pays careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions. James P. Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. James Hudnut-Beumler is Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Jackson Reinhardt is a graduate of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University. He is currently an independent scholar, freelance writer, and research assistant. You can reach Jackson at jtreinhardt1997@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @JTRhardt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book also tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this text includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for primary source documents that will lead readers into a deeper engagement with the material. Unlike similar history books, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction pays careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions. James P. Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. James Hudnut-Beumler is Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Jackson Reinhardt is a graduate of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University. He is currently an independent scholar, freelance writer, and research assistant. You can reach Jackson at jtreinhardt1997@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @JTRhardt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book also tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this text includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for primary source documents that will lead readers into a deeper engagement with the material. Unlike similar history books, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction pays careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions. James P. Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. James Hudnut-Beumler is Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Jackson Reinhardt is a graduate of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University. He is currently an independent scholar, freelance writer, and research assistant. You can reach Jackson at jtreinhardt1997@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @JTRhardt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic diversity, the book also tells the story of American religion in all its historical and moral complexity. To appeal to its broad range of readers, this text includes charts, timelines, and suggestions for primary source documents that will lead readers into a deeper engagement with the material. Unlike similar history books, The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction pays careful attention to balancing the story of Christianity with the central contributions of other religions. James P. Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, and Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. James Hudnut-Beumler is Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Professor of History in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. Jackson Reinhardt is a graduate of University of Southern California and Vanderbilt University. He is currently an independent scholar, freelance writer, and research assistant. You can reach Jackson at jtreinhardt1997@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @JTRhardt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In this episode, Dr. Assata Zerai, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at the University of New Mexico, and Dr. Doug Woods, Dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University, discuss career diversity, interdisciplinary scholarship, and how humanities doctoral training plays a role in the work of higher education administration.

In this episode, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Catherine Becker, and Marquette University's  Harry G. John Professor of History and Director of the Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach, Robert S. Smith, discuss faculty perspectives on humanities and potential for graduate reforms. For full audio transcript and other information please visit: www.phdfuturesnow.org