SyndicateMizzou Video Podcast

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Collaboration at TigerPlace

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:30:56 GMT

Interdisciplinary and collaborative projects on technology for elder care at TigerPlace, especially applying "fuzzy logic" to these problems.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Fuzzy Logic Explained

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:31:47 GMT

How "fuzzy set theory" and "fuzzy logic" are useful in dealing with events that are vague or contain variation. Getting computers to think more like humans do. How fuzzy logic is used in modern technology (e.g., video camcorders). Why many scientists in the West have been suspicious of fuzzy logic. More on why it is a useful tool to make so-called "soft decisions" that call for intervention.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Fuzzy Logic Applied

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:32:17 GMT

Funding for the TigerPlace project and how fuzzy logic technology is beginning to be implemented in elder care (e.g., assessing mobility and range of motion, detecting accidents, and identifying the need for early intervention by health care providers).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Robotics

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:32:42 GMT

Another interdisciplinary project involving cognitive psychology, computer science, and engineering. Robotics applications of fuzzy logic and simulating human "working memory" in computers.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Bioinformatics

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:33:04 GMT

Keller's work in the realm of bioinformatics-trying to make sense of microray experiments with DNA and cancer treatment.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - On Collaboration

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:33:35 GMT

The challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary research; trying to figure out how to speak the same language with collaborators from other disciplines.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Applying fuzzy logic to landmine detection

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:34:08 GMT

Applying fuzzy logic to landmine detection.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Lazy Eye Detection in Infants

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:34:36 GMT

Using technology for early detection of "lazy eye" in infants.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - On Being a Mathematician

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:35:29 GMT

Being a mathematician in an engineering department.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Applying fuzzy logic to improvised explosive devices

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:36:02 GMT

Applying image processing and pattern recognition to new challenges: roadside bombs.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Sensory Data Overload

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:36:33 GMT

Using sensors. The problem of possessing an overload of sensory data and how to effectively summarize sensory data.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: James Keller - Fuzzy Logic Origins

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:37:00 GMT

The history of fuzzy logic and why it didn't catch on right away in the U.S., in contrast to its quick adoption in other countries.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Textile Recycling

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:38:37 GMT

Hawley describes facets of her textile recycling projects.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Savvy Seconds

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:38:58 GMT

Savvy Seconds, the used clothing store that opened in December 2004 in Boonville, where adults with disabilities gain valuable life skills and work training experience while putting discarded clothing to good use.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Savvy Seconds, cont.

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:40:23 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Amish Entrepreneurship Research

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:40:51 GMT

Hawley's ongoing research regarding the business practices of an Old Order Amish community in Missouri, which emphasizes cooperation and sharing of resources over competition.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Amish Quilting

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:41:29 GMT

Amish women's quilting practices and codes for in-group use and out-group use; how the process of creating reflects community values whether creating "for hire" or "for family."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - The Amish and Technology

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:41:10 GMT

American mainstream misunderstanding of Amish communities, particularly their institutional rite of passage called rumspringa and their rules for the use of technology.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Tartan Plaid Project

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:41:50 GMT

Hawley’s newest teaching project in collaboration with other TAM faculty: Laurel Wilson, Lynn Boorady, and Pam Norum.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jana Hawley - Various Other Projects

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:42:16 GMT

Hawley's e-commerce research; her collaboration with Textile and Apparel Management professor Laurel Wilson and students to digitize the Missouri Historical Costume and Textile Collection, creating a virtual museum of the costume collection.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Marketing Mavericks

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:43:09 GMT

"Marketing Mavericks"—people who exercise a new kind of power in the online world by influencing consumer behavior online. How people use this online information from specific purchasing websites (such as Amazon.com), where people post reviews of products and where other people read those reviews as part of their decision-making process. Research methods: using the internet to unobtrusively gather data about people’s real behavior, prior to more direct investigation by questionnaire or interview.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Research Tools

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:43:31 GMT

How open source tools, which are free to the public, are employed to gather data--for example, bots that are programmed to gather specific kinds of information from the web.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Longitudinal Tracking on the Internet

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:43:52 GMT

Issues and ethics involved in tracking individuals' online behavior in publicly archived forums.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Preliminary findings

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:44:24 GMT

The complex world in which the Marketing Mavericks live and work.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Rating Trends

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:45:17 GMT

Fast-paced changes—the dynamic nature of the online purchasing world.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - When the Wife is the Primary Bread-Winner

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:45:17 GMT

Who controls the proverbial purse strings? Husband and wife decision-making in nonconventional households (in which the wife is the primary income earner).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Disguising Roles

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:45:42 GMT

Couples in these households going to elaborate lengths to avoid or disguise the wife's role as primary earner.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Revisiting the Old Theory

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:46:35 GMT

Revisiting the old theory: Who is actually playing the "gatekeeper" role in household purchases?

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Suraj Commuri - Going Inside People's Homes

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:47:14 GMT

The time-consuming but gratifying process of data-gathering via face-to-face interviewing and observing couples in their natural contexts.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - "Googling" for 3-D Protein Structures

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:57:27 GMT

The new database that offers real time, high-accuracy searches for researchers.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - "Googling" for Geospatial Imagery

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:57:41 GMT

GeoIris: a project supported by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - Searching Visual Phenotypes in Plants

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:57:59 GMT

"Googling" for visual phenotypes in plants to examine for mutations or disease.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - GeoIris Demo I

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:58:20 GMT

Demonstration by doctoral student Matt Klaric of how the GeoIris system works.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - GeoIris Demo II

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:58:35 GMT

Demonstration by doctoral student Matt Klaric of how the GeoI system works.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chi-Ren Shyu - Protein Database Demonstration

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:58:51 GMT

Demonstration by Shyu of the protein database.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carol Ward - Walking Upright is a Pain in the Back

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:15 GMT

Anthropology professor Carol Ward’s overall goal of understanding human evolution. Comparing fossils and modern primate anatomy to determine the chronology of human development.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carol Ward - Evolution of Intelligence

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:31 GMT

Collaborating with Mark Flinn (psychology and anthropology) and David Geary (psychology) on how and why human brains developed as they did.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carol Ward - Collaboration for Arthritis Treatment

Fri, 12 May 2006 16:59:43 GMT

The potential at MU to create profoundly innovative and viable research collaborations, for example, with MU’s Veterinary School, Medical School, College of Engineering, and Department of Anthropology. More specifically, Ward discusses the exciting joint project to examine the effect of exercise and mechanical load (weight) on joint and bone growth, with implications for arthritis treatment.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Introduction to TigerPlace

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:20:16 GMT

The history of how TigerPlace came to into being.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Introduction to TigerPlace (continued)

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:54:47 GMT

Staffed by nurses and a nurse practitioner, the Tiger Care Center conducts a complete medical assessment upon admission, working to manage chronic illnesses so that residents can stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Example Living Quarters

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:16 GMT

Come on a virtual tour of one of the apartments at TigerPlace.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Studio Apartment

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:35 GMT

Come see a studio apartment at TigerPlace.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Exercise Facility

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:58 GMT

That the building is licensed as an intermediate care facility is important because it satisfies regulations associated with most insurance plans (including Medicare); thus residents will not be forced to move when their needs increase.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Additional Services at TigerPlace

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:04:20 GMT

Marilyn Rantz talks about some of the additional services available at TigerPlace.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Example Alcove Apartment

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:04:41 GMT

Social programming at TigerPlace (e.g., poker night, the "happy feet" group, landscaping, and other volunteer-run activities)

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - Examples of Sensors in an Apartment

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:05:02 GMT

See how sensors operate in one resident's apartment.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - The Research Team - I

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:05:19 GMT

The TigerPlace project is a collaboration across multiple departments of the MU campus. Listen to different team members introduce themselves and explain their involvement in the project.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Marilyn Rantz - The Research Team - II

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:05:36 GMT

Continuation of the research team introductions.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - The Internet and Social Capital

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:38 GMT

Is there a decline in social capital in the U.S.? Winfield discusses how the internet may increase political involvement in the democratic process.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Moveon.org

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:54:34 GMT

Winfield discusses the use of Moveon.org as a case study of an Internet site that increases social capital.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Mass Media's use of Historical Context

Wed, 17 May 2006 18:57:31 GMT

What influences the mass media process? Winfield discusses how journalists use historical context when trying to explain something to the public.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Mass Media's use of Historical Context (continued)

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:02:50 GMT

Winfield further discusses how journalists place a particular story in a certain context to deliver to the public.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Chinese media in transition

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:04:12 GMT

The philosophical underpinnings in the media of China and Japan.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - Examining public perception before mass media

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:08:59 GMT

Winfield's current book project on public perception before the advent of public opinion polls and the national media. Reputation-building and the development of the hero designation in nineteenth-century U.S. as revealed by the media coverage of the Corps of Discovery expedition along with other public references, such as textbooks, maps, trail guides, histories, and children’s books.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - The making of a hero

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:10:48 GMT

Winfield discusses differences in the processes of celebrity hero-ification today.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Betty Winfield - The model presidential wife

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:12:55 GMT

WInfield discusses how presidential candidates' wives are framed by the media. What happens when a candidate’s wife doesn’t fit these molds?

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Drawn to performance

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:26:14 GMT

Perna found herself drawn to viola performance, and especially chamber music, because of the collaborative and democratic nature of the music-making process. The Esterhazy Quartet, the string quartet with whom Perna performs chamber music, focuses particularly on work from contemporary living composers. The Esterhazy Quartet established residency at the Berklee College of Music in Boston six years ago, where they experience the magic of the collaborative process while working with the best student composers.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Perna's philosophy of music

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:22:22 GMT

Considering the universal drive to make music, Perna appreciates the magic of bringing music to life.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Teaching music moves humankind forward

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:25:23 GMT

Perna discusses how teaching others about music is her part of moving humankind forward.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Teaching music at Mizzou

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:26:00 GMT

Perna discusses what it means to teach music in a group context at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - The Missouri String Project

Wed, 17 May 2006 16:20:03 GMT

The Missouri String Project, which Perna directs, provides outreach to the community and valuable teaching experience for music majors.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Perna's Current Projects

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:26:33 GMT

Perna's recent work with the Concordia String Trio is now in its fifth season. The challenge and excitement is in playing 21st century music commissioned by living composers and being able to work directly with the composers themselves.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Leslie Perna - Viola Performance

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:26:45 GMT

Watch Perna in a short viola performance.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:41:23 GMT

Devlin describes the content of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams. Volume I covers the period from 1920 to 1945 (with the success of The Glass Menagerie), while volume II concerns Williams’ “major period” from 1945 to 1957, during which A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof were introduced.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - Performances of Devlin's Letters

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:41:56 GMT

Devlin disscusses various performances of his works by actors such as Sean Leonard and Richard Thomas.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - More on the Performances of Devlin's Work

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:42:39 GMT

Devlin continues to discuss performances of Tennessee Williams' letters and how Steve Lawson of New Your City Center scripted and staged them.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - Sean Leonard as Tennessee Williams

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:11 GMT

Devlin discusses how an accomplished actor such as Sean Leonard can bring the letters of Tennessee Williams to life.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - Embarking on the Kazan Project

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:43:51 GMT

Having finished the first two volumes of letters of Tennessee Williams, Devlin discusses how he is now beginning his approach to the collection of letters by Elia Kazan.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - On the differences between Kazan and Williams

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:44:33 GMT

Devlin briefly discusses the difference in the writing styles between Williams and Kazan.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - Tools for researching a project

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:45:03 GMT

Devlin discussess how he goes about researching and gathering content for a new project.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Albert Devlin - Collaboration on Campus

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:45:50 GMT

Devlin discusses work he is doing with others on campus, including his joint appointment in the Theatre department.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Introduction to Research

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:12:41 GMT

Kerns gives an introduction to his research on cognitive processes and the brain.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Introduction to Research (continued)

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:12:59 GMT

Kerns continues to give an overview of his research.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Cognitive Control

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:15 GMT

How cognitive control processes work. What scholars know about the human brain.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Cognitive Control (continued)

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:36 GMT

How cognitive control processes work. What scholars know about the human brain.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Analyzing Cognition in the Lab

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:13:55 GMT

Kerns discusses how activity in different parts of brain can be observed in the lab.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Cognitive Control (continued)

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:16 GMT

Kerns discusses more on cognitive control.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Brain Regions

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:35 GMT

Kerns discusses activity in various brain regions as a result of different cognitive process.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Brain Imaging - Viewing Your Cognitive Activity

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:14:56 GMT

Kerns discusses the technology used in his research to view brain activity.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - FMRI in Psychology Resesarch

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:15:23 GMT

Kerns discusses the use of FMRI in his research.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - FMRI in Psychology Resesarch: How it Works

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:15:43 GMT

Kerns discusses the process a person goes through to have the cognitive activities imaged.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - FMRI in Psychology Resesarch: Viewing Brain Activity

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:59:02 GMT

Kerns discusses how brain activity is viewed during an FMRI scan.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - FMRI in Psychology Resesarch: History

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:16:29 GMT

Kerns discusses how FMRI technologies started to be used in psychology research.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Kerns - Stages of Schizophrenia

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:16:58 GMT

Kerns discusses the characteristics of the different stages of schizophrenia.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Miller reads the letters of Tennessee Williams

Tue, 30 May 2006 17:07:41 GMT

MIller talks about how he got involved in the performance of the letters of Tennessee Williams.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Beginnings

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:00:25 GMT

Miller discusses his journey through New York, commercial advertising, and art school—ulimately leading to his position in the Department of Theatre here at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - A passion for theatre

Tue, 30 May 2006 17:14:59 GMT

Miller talks about theatre, his love for it, and the challenges it presents.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - The instinct of directing

Tue, 30 May 2006 20:12:42 GMT

Miller discusses his philosophy of teaching the disciplines of directing and acting.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - A passion for all the arts

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:12:36 GMT

Miller discusses some of his original works in costume design, painting and music composition.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Costume design

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:14:32 GMT

Miller shows some of his original costume renderings.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Costume design process

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:46 GMT

Miller discusses the process of costume design from conception to the final product.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - The Mizzou difference

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:42:36 GMT

MIller talks about the extraordinary talent at Mizzou and the difference it has made.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Film vs. Theatre

Wed, 31 May 2006 14:28:26 GMT

Miller talks about his preference of film over theatre as an actor's medium.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Miller discusses his own performances

Wed, 31 May 2006 14:33:42 GMT

Miller discusses his changes in roles over the years, including his recent role as Tennessee Williams.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - The Midwest likes stories

Wed, 31 May 2006 14:35:52 GMT

Miller discusses how he chooses a production and what audiences seem to like the most.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Miller - Miller performs Tennessee Williams

Wed, 31 May 2006 15:17:23 GMT

Miller performs eight short pieces of Tennessee Williams letters as edited by Albert Develin, Professor of English. Miller is accompanied by singer and professional actress, Jennifer Gray.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 1

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:57:41 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 2

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:20:46 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 3

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:06:11 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 4

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:06:47 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 5

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:07:30 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 6

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:05:28 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 7

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:08:54 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 8

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:09:31 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ian Aberbach - Aberbach Clip 9

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:06:03 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - Polarization of attitudes in America

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:34:26 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - More on the polarization of America

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:34:40 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - The evolutionary stages of media

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:04 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - Multitasking on the Internet

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:23 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - A call for more comprehensive research on the Internet

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:35:45 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - Activities of the University of Missouri’s Center for the Digital Globe

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:36:06 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Wayne Wanta - More about the Center for the Digital Globe

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:36:28 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Matt Gompper - Research in Conservation Biology

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:42:25 GMT

Introduction to Gompper's research in conservation biology. Gompper discusses animal disease and evolutionary ecology.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Not your average skunk

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:43:49 GMT

The Eastern Spotted Skunk is on the verge of extinction. Gompper discusses work in the region that aims to understand why various animals are on the decline and what can be done about it.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Technology, Tracking, and Habitat Maps

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:45:22 GMT

Gompper discusses using radio telemetry, infrared cameras, and track plates as non-invasive techniques for tracking various animals.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Outreach and Awareness in the U.S. and India

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:46:44 GMT

In order to raise awareness of their research, Gompper and his team work closely with a number of agencies, including the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Arkansas Fishing Game Commission, and the U.S. Forest Services.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Tigers for Tigers

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:47:49 GMT

Without active management and conservation of tigers in the wild, tigers will disappear from the wild in our lifetime. Tigers for Tigers is a student group that raises money to help tigers continue to survive in the wild.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Tigers for Tigers (cont.)

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:51:42 GMT

Students work as a non-profit organization to promote the awareness of species extinction, animal ecology, and environmental issues to elementary students.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - Collaboration on Campus and Beyond

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:53:23 GMT

Gompper and his team work with parasitologists at the School of Veterinary Sciences to learn more about the effects of various diseases on wildlife and how wildlife can act a resevoir for diseases that humans may contract. Gompper discusses many other collaborations as well.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Gompper - The Life of an Ecologist

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:54:34 GMT

Gompper's work has also become his hobby. He discusses how his family has also become involved in his work.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Introduction to Research in Philosophy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:58:52 GMT

Johnson discusses the discipline of philosophy and its subfield of ethics

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Doing "armchair philosophy"

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:20 GMT

How much we can know simply by reflecting? What is the nature of moral judgment? Johnson discusses practical reasoning and whether it really has an effect on our behavior.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Types of reasoning

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:48 GMT

Johnson talks about prudential reasoning, ethical reasoning, and moral reasoning and how they can affect our our behavior.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Moral Reasoning

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:01 GMT

Why Johnson believes that some kind of reasoning is involved in moral thinking.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - What "data" means to a philosopher

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:16 GMT

Johnson discusses how ethicists today form their assumptions and draw conclusions.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - The impact of empirical research on ethical philosophy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:31 GMT

Many experiments in social psychology have shown that we overestimate the importance of enduring character traits in the explanation of people's behavior. Johnson discusses some examples.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - The state of ethics today

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:50 GMT

The state of contemporary debates on the nature of right vs. wrong and on virtue. Johnson discusses the shift of focus from the two primary camps of ethics, utilitarianism and deontologists, to virtue ethics, which takes human psychology into greater account. What place do circumstances and empirical studies on character traits have in the debate?

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Collaboration with other philosophers at MU

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:02:18 GMT

Johnsons discusses the growing interest in the philosophy of biology at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Johnson's path to philosophy

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:02:41 GMT

How reading Plato's dialogues influenced Johnson to become a philosopher.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Johnson's current book project

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:02:54 GMT

Johnson’s discusses his current book project, What We Owe to Ourselves, which defends the controversial idea that we have a moral obligation to ourselves to honor our talents and skills and to develop our natural capacities.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Johnson - Teaching at Mizzou

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:03:06 GMT

Johnson discusses his courses and teaching at Mizzou.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Using radioisotopes for diagnosing disease

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:30:43 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Imaging and Therapy

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:33:23 GMT

Elements that have isotopes that are useful in imaging and therapy.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - An abbreviated history of nuclear medicine, from 1895

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:34:59 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - What are radiopharmaceuticals?

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:36:27 GMT

Radiopharmaceuticals are basically drugs containing a radioactive atom that are used for either imaging or therapy. Ninety-five percent of radiopharmaceuticals are employed diagnostically, the rest therapeutically.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Types of radiation and their uses

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:39 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Isotopes used in diagnosing disease.

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:40:19 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Development of bone agents

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:51:12 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Therapeutic uses of radioisotopes

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:52:48 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Designing radiopharmaceuticals

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:54:36 GMT

Designing radiopharmaceuticals involves combining the right radioisotope with a targeting molecule, in order to take it to the tumor. The selection of the targeting molecule depends upon the type of cancer. In the case of breast cancer, for example, a hormone molecule might be used.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Jurisson’s current research

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:34:36 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Collaborating with students and other faculty

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:35:23 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - How Jurisson became a chemist

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:38:09 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - The MU Saturday Morning Science program

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:39:17 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - Nuclear waste recycling

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:17:55 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - MU facult in radiochemistry

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:19:13 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Silvia Jurisson - How Tc-99m is made

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:20:15 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - School Uniforms in America

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:56:25 GMT

Brunsma describes the research that led to _The School Uniform Movement and What It Tells Us About American Education: A Symbolic Crusade_ (2004).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - Brunsma's Follow-up Book on School Uniforms

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:01:07 GMT

Brunsma’s follow-up book, _Evaluating Public School Uniforms: A Decade of Research_ (2006), consists of a collection of empirical studies by scholars on the subject.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - Concerns over School Uniforms

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:00:33 GMT

Brunsma discusses various concerns about the growing school uniform crusade.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - Beyond Black: Mixed Messages

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:04:04 GMT

Brunsma explores the construction of racial identity in _Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America_ (2001), with Kerry Ann Rockquemore, and _Mixed Messages: Multiracial Identities in the “Color-Blind” Era_ (2006).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - Understanding Race

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:04:29 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: David Brunsma - Teaching at MU

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:04:55 GMT

Brunsma teaches jointly in Black Studies and Sociology at MU.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - Teaching and research as a pianist

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:37:31 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - How Peter Miyamoto came to be a pianist

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:42:18 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - Teaching Piano

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:43:08 GMT

Teaching piano at MU involves intensive one-on-one lessons between the student and the teacher.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - On Performing

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:42:50 GMT

Along with his schedule of national and international performances, Miyamoto values the opportunity to play locally with the Odyssey Chamber Series and the upcoming Plowman Chamber Music Competition.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - Miyamoto's Recordings

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:45:04 GMT

Miyamoto describes the preparation for his recent CD - _Chopin: Ballades and Fantasies_ (2004) - as “a labor of love.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Peter Miyamoto - Chopin’s _Ballade No.1 in G minor, op. 23._

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:48:55 GMT

Although our recording can’t do Miyamoto’s music justice, listen to and watch him perform a sample from Chopin’s _Ballade No.1 in G minor, op. 23._

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Exile and Spanish Literature

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:00:46 GMT

Making connections between his intellectual work and his political work, Ugarte has explored how being in exile has had a significant impact on important Spanish writers.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Madrid in 1900

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Madrid in 1900: How the city became so central to the work of so many Spanish authors.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Afro-Hispanic Relations

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:01:22 GMT

Ugarte's current project: Looking at the relationship between Spain and Africa from the late 19th century through the 21st century.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Cultural Studies

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:29:21 GMT

Ugarte talks about the study of culture as found in literature, film, and the press.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - African influence in Spain

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:49:49 GMT

Ugarte discusses the relationship of various ethnic groups in Spain throughout history and how the African "Other" is absorbed in the consciousness of Spaniards.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Learning about Africa

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:52:40 GMT

Ugarte discusses how a better understanding of Africa has become essential to his understanding of Spain.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Michael Ugarte - Activism and Pedagogy

Wed, 17 May 2006 19:55:26 GMT

How does activism fit in with pedagogy on campus? What is a just war?

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - History of the Service-Learning Program

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:36:36 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - Impact of the Service-Learning Program on the community

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:37:50 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - Service-learning sets up students for a future life of service

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:32:42 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - Service-learning success stories: Women of Worth and Civic Leaders Internship Program

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:50:49 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - MU’s new academic minor in Leadership and Public Service

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:48:07 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - A week in the life of Anne-Marie Foley

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:48:52 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - Foley's Courses

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:36:30 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Anne-Marie Foley - The Community Leadership Seminar

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:56:39 GMT

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Weems’ current research project

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:34:36 GMT

Robert Weems’ current research project, with colleague Lewis Randolph, looks at the history of U.S. government interest in black business development with a special focus on Richard Nixon’s “Black Capitalism” initiative.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - What primary research looks like for a historian

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:36:35 GMT

What began as a one-book project, with Lewis Randolph, has turned into a two-volume work. The first looks at the 1920s Division of Negro Affairs up to the Nixon administration, while the second poses the question, “Whatever happened to black capitalism?” and looks at the Ford administration.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Drawing on secondary historical literature

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:37:36 GMT

Crucial to any historian is the preexisting secondary literature. Weems draws upon this kind of information to establish the framework and general parameters of his own research.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - The African-American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographic Guide (2001)

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:39:05 GMT

Not only is this a useful reference book, containing a full bibliography and essays that examine a variety of historical topics in terms of how perspectives have changed over time, but it’s also significant personally for Weems because it was written with Arvarh E. Strickland—the first full-time African-American faculty member at MU—and because it draws on the expertise of a number of MU faculty.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Why are black businesses disappearing from America’s landscape? The economic dimension of desegregation

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:41:36 GMT

The fate of black economic development in Columbia, Missouri, represents a microcosm of national trends. “For a variety of social and economic reasons,” Weems observes, “we literally see black businesses disappearing from the landscape of America.” Looking at the economic dimension of desegregation reveals a bitter irony that has animated much of Weems’ work. As a result of so-called desegregation, “on one level, we see white companies making great inroads among the African-American consumers,” he explains. “But we don’t see black companies being able to make similar inroads in the mainstream community.” In economic terms, this one-way situation is not true desegregation.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Desegregating the Dollar: How white corporate America profited from desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:03:18 GMT

By examining the economic results of desegregation in the insurance industry, Weems began to notice how corporate America profited as well from the Civil Rights Movement. The result was his second book, Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (1998)—a comprehensive look at the African-American community as a consumer base in the U.S.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Practical applications for understanding history: Weems’ recent work

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:45:11 GMT

“One of the scariest things I found in researching Desegregating the Dollar was that as early as the 1930s,” explains Weems, “corporate marketers figured out that black people had an especially acute case of status anxiety” because of their particular history of slavery. Weems’ current project reacts against the conspicuous consumption celebrated in the realm of hip-hop as “bling-bling.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - The need for further national discussion about stimulating black economic development today

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:47:05 GMT

Examining the Nixon administration’s role in the unprecedented national discussion about black economic development in the 1960s reminds us of the continued relevance of such economic policies and discussions in America today. “In America— whether it’s right or wrong—it all comes down to money and economics,” Weems observes.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - The personal motivation for Weems’ research

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:48:05 GMT

Weems’ personal motivation for working in this area is to reach out beyond the halls of the academy to have real world applications.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Robert Weems - Weems’ personal background and advice to graduate students

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:48:55 GMT

Weems recounts his dissertation research and offers advice to graduate students about selecting a viable research topic.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ted Tarkow - How the Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program began

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:40:06 GMT

The Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program, begun in 1994, aims to support undergraduate participation in faculty research. Students in the program have the chance to be immersed in a research career and learn that “good research, good creativity, and good teaching go hand in glove.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ted Tarkow - Individualized research programs

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:41:29 GMT

The duration of each project varies depending upon the discipline and the student’s background, and the Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program allows for such individualization of research projects.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ted Tarkow - More on the program’s history

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:42:28 GMT

“The program has evolved, when all is said and done, very insignificantly. We’ve taken what we think is a good idea and built on it…. We’re still dealing with talented faculty working with talented students in ways that show the interconnectivity of research and teaching.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Ted Tarkow - Funding for Undergraduate Research Mentorship fellows

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:43:40 GMT

Beyond the invaluable learning experience, successful student applicants are also awarded stipends (ranging from $500 to $3,000) to support their research.