This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.03.02)
Monday
Alexandra Nica, director of the undergraduate program and professor of instruction in the department of economics at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, says economics is everywhere, even in art.
Tuesday
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Malcolm Gillis university professor, professor of bioengineering and co-director of Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies, says HPV screening could only take an hour.
Wednesday
John Hatfield, Century Club Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, looks into real estate agent commissions.
Thursday
Emily Chung, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, looks through records to shed more light on the history of the rich and poor in Industrial Manchester.
Friday
Amit Pathak, professor of mechanical engineer and materials science at Washington University in St. Louis, explores what the fairy tale of the princess and the pea has to teach us about our cells.