Voices of Excellence

Voices of Excellence


Latest Episodes

Examining the Complexity of Ethics With Tristram McPherson
April 10, 2022

Tristram McPherson, Professor of Philosophy, examines foundational philosophical questions about ethics, specifically meta-ethics; epistemology; and conceptual ethics. He looks at whether there are et

What Can Minions Reveal About Child Language Acquisition? John Grinstead Explains
April 09, 2022

John Grinstead, Professor and Interim Chair in Spanish and Portuguese, researches developmental linguistics, developmental semantics and pragmatics, and childrens comprehension of syntax. Ten years a

Virginia Rich Looks At How the Earth’s Biosphere Will React to Climate Change
April 08, 2022

Virginia Rich, Associate Professor of Microbiology and the Director of the eMERGE Biology Integration Institute, studies global change microbiology, microbial meta-omics, and “Genes-to-Ecosystems” inq

“History Is Detective Work,” Says Historian Sam White
April 07, 2022

Sam White, Professor of History, studies environmental history and uses natural and human records to reconstruct past climate variability and extreme weather. He discusses the methods that historians

David Steigerwald Asks, “How In Control Are You of Your Life?”
April 06, 2022

Professor of History David Steigerwald teaches courses in 20th-century American history from World War I through the 1960s. He also researches and writes about alienation, a composite term that refers

Richard Samuels On “Why Are We Able to Count?”
March 30, 2022

Richard Samuels, Professor of Philosophy, researches cognitive development, reasoning, computational models of psychological capacities, and modular theories of cognition. He describes why cognitive s

Richard Samuels on "Why are we able to count?"
March 30, 2022

Richard Samuels, professor of philosophy, researc…

“What Was Reality in the Past?” Greg Anderson Asks
March 23, 2022

Greg Anderson, Professor of History, specializes in ancient Greek history, historical thoughts, and critical theory. In his most recent book The Realness of Things Past, he proposes a new way of doing

"What was reality in the past?" Greg Anderson asks
March 23, 2022

Greg Anderson, professor of history, specializes …

Alex Thompson looks at how climate change agreements have evolved
March 17, 2022

Alexander Thompson, professor of political scienc…