Could We Ever...

Danyelle and Ricardo speak with Dr. Mary Urquhart, associate professor and head of the Department of Science/Mathematics Education at UT Dallas.

(Clip from Paramount Television’s “Star Trek: The Original Series”)

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Dr. Mary Urquhart

https://profiles.utdallas.edu/urquhart

UT Dallas Department of Science/Mathematics Education

https://sme.utdallas.edu/

UT Dallas Space Science Resources

https://sme.utdallas.edu/outreach/k-12-teachers/space-science-resources/

Solar System Exploration

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

Moon to Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars

Danyelle and Ricardo speak with Dr. Deborah Kang, Fellow of the Anne Stark and Chester Watston Professorship in History

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Dr. Deborah Kang

https://profiles.utdallas.edu/sdkang2020

School of Arts and Humanities

https://ah.utdallas.edu/

Resources

https://www.sdkang.net/

Danyelle and Ricardo spoke with Dr. Anthony Cummings, associate professor of geospatial information sciences

(Clip from "The Burning Season": The Chico Mendes Story)

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Dr. Anthony Cummings

https://profiles.utdallas.edu/anthony.cummings

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

https://epps.utdallas.edu/

Geospatial Information Sciences

https://epps.utdallas.edu/about/programs/geospatial-information-sciences/

Professor to Explore Relationship between Jaguars, Miners in Amazon

https://www.utdallas.edu/news/social-sciences/professor-to-explore-relationship-between-jaguars/

Professor Uses Drones To Track Human Impact on Rainforest

https://www.utdallas.edu/news/research/professor-uses-drones-to-track-human-impact-on-rai/

”The Burning Season:“ The Chico Mendes Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmYxMWXL3A&ab_channel=Chve

Dr. Cummings’ Jaguarton website (forthcoming)

http://www.jaguarton.com

A little update on the next episode!

Danyelle and Ricardo spoke with Dr. Salena Brody, a psychology professor of instruction at UT Dallas, about whether people can unlearn prejudice.

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Dr. Salena Brody

https://bbs.utdallas.edu/faculty/detail.php5?i=2020

UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

https://bbs.utdallas.edu/

Book: “The Nature of Prejudice,” by Gordon Allport

https://utdallas.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma998051301421&context=L&vid=01UT_DALLAS:UTDALMA&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,%22the%20nature%20of%20prejudice%22

Movie: “The Red Violin”

https://utdallas.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9925919400001421&context=L&vid=01UT_DALLAS:UTDALMA&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,%22the%20red%20violin%22&offset=0

Unsung Psychology Pioneers: A Content Analysis of Who Makes History (and Who Doesn't)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjpsyc.133.2.0241?seq=1

Ozawa vs. United States

https://immigrationhistory.org/item/takao-ozawa-v-united-states-1922/

Thind vs. United States

https://immigrationhistory.org/item/thind-v-united-states%E2%80%8B/

Immigration Act of 1924

https://immigrationhistory.org/item/1924-immigration-act-johnson-reed-act/

Smithsonian Magazine: How a Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation in 1950s America

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/psychologist-work-racial-identity-helped-overturn-school-segregation-180966934/

National Association for the Education of Young Children: The Life and Work of Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark (1917–1983)

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/jul2020/our-proud-heritage

Science: Study identifies a key reason black scientists are less likely to receive NIH funding

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/study-identifies-key-reason-black-scientists-are-less-likely-receive-nih-funding

School of Arts& Humanities Virtual Events Calendar

https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/virtual-events.html

“Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom,” by Matthew R. Kay

https://utdallas.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9927931313801421&context=L&vid=01UT_DALLAS:UTDALMA&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Not%20Light%20%20but%20Fire:%20How%20to%20Lead%20Meaningful%20Race%20Conversations%20in%20the%20Classroom%20%E2%80%9D%20by%20Matthew%20R.%20Kay

Other Podcasts Dr. Brody recommends:

“Throughline” from NPR

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline

“CodeSwitch” from NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/

“Nice White Parents” from This American Life

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/712/nice-white-parents

“1619 Project” from The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/podcasts/1619-slavery-anniversary.html

“More Perfect” from WNYC Studios

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/481105292/more-perfect

Could we ever hail a cab by looking at a camera on the street? Or ask a car to order takeout? Danyelle and Ricardo spoke with senior lecturer Dr. Alex Edsel about the possibility of living in a device-free world. 

(Clip from “Her” by Warner Bros. Pictures) 

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Dr. Alex Edsel 

https://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/alexander-edsel   

Naveen Jindal School of Management 

https://jindal.utdallas.edu/   

Trackable: Business in an IoT & Biometrics World 

https://books.google.com/books/about/Trackable.html?id=zRFUzQEACAAJ   

ACLU: Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Mugshots 

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28   

US Census Bureau: 2020 Census Will Help Policymakers Prepare for the Incoming Wave of Aging Boomers 

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/12/by-2030-all-baby-boomers-will-be-age-65-or-older.html#:~:text=Baby%20boomers%20have%20changed%20the,estimated%20at%20about%2073%20million.   

Fast Company: In the AI era, Your Voice Could Give Away Your Face 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90357561/this-ai-guesses-human-faces-based-only-on-their-voices

How does a political candidate’s gender affect how a voter views them? In the Season 2 premiere of the “Could We Ever...” podcast, Danyelle and Ricardo spoke with Dr. Harold Clarke to find out.

(Clip from “VEEP” by HBO)

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Dr. Harold Clarke

https://utdallas.edu/chairs/profiles/dr-harold-d-clarke/

Hillary's Hypothesis: Attitudes Towards Women and Voting in the 2016 Presidential Election

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379418303998

The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

https://epps.utdallas.edu/

Wwwweeee’rrrreeee bbbbaaaacccckkkk!

We’ve been busy working remotely on Season 2, and the debut episode premieres this week!

We speak to Dr. Harold Clarke about how people’s views about female political candidates. Preview the discussion!

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In the season one finale, Danyelle and Ricardo sit down with Jacqueline Prince, assistant director for women’s & gender equity programs at the Galerstein Gender Center, to discuss whether we could achieve gender equity. NOTE: This interview was recorded before safer at home measures were put in place.

(Clip from “Hidden Figures” by Fox 2000 Pictures)

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Upcoming events can be found on the UT Dallas Galerstein Gender Center website:

https://www.utdallas.edu/gendercenter/

UT Dallas Galerstein Gender Center on social media:

https://www.facebook.com/GGCatUTDallas/

https://www.instagram.com/utd_gender_center/

https://twitter.com/UTDGGC

Jacqueline Prince recently was honored by UTD Leadership Programs with the Advisor of the Year award for her work advising Chi Alpha Iota Diaternity, the University’s first gender-inclusive Greek organization.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_V-OHUJmSD/?igshid=1t2b0f0vh7hce

Kimberle Crenshaw’s TED Talk, “The urgency of intersectionality,” from 2016:

https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en

Study: Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems

https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/65222

Related image:

https://www.facebook.com/glyswny/posts/1288808967961433/

Diversity vs. Inclusion images:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a9/45/72/a94572bb7656f119c39d19f021271c5b.jpg

http://ogden.cps.edu/diversity--inclusion-committee.html

Video: UT Dallas Ranked the Most LGBT+ Friendly Campus in Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUHaOe7yn2o

You can find our new show, Comets Discuss, on major podcasting platforms and at utdallas.edu/cometcast/comets-discuss/