Could We Ever...: Recent Episodes
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“Could We Ever...” shines a light on UT Dallas experts and asks them to tackle questions you never knew you needed answered — from science to art and more.
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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 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
Danyelle and Ricardo spoke with Dr. Salena Brody, a psychology professor of instruction at UT Dallas, about whether people can unlearn prejudice.
(Clip from ABC News)
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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⟨=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⟨=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⟨=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!
If you’re new to the podcast, “Could We Ever...” shines a light on UT Dallas experts and asks them to tackle questions you never knew you needed answered — from science to art and more.
Produced by the UT Dallas Office of Communications.
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/
What exactly is a “classic” piece of literature, and why should the Harry Potter series be counted among them? Danyelle and Ricardo sat down with Dr. Theresa Towner, Ashbel Smith Professor of literary studies in the UT Dallas School of Arts and Humanities, to find out.
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Dr. Theresa Towner
https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/people/faculty_detail.php?faculty_id=1181
School of Arts and Humanities Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/UTDArts/
School of Arts and Humanities Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/utd_arts/
School of Arts and Humanities Twitter
https://twitter.com/UTDallasArts
Danyelle and Ricardo speak with Dr. Doug Kiel, professor of public and nonprofit management, to see whether we could ever get smart about work.
(Clip from “Parks and Recreation” by NBCUniversal)
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Circadian Rhythms
https://www.nigms.nih.gov/education/pages/factsheet_circadianrhythms.aspx
Dr. Doug Kiel
https://profiles.utdallas.edu/lowell.kiel?pub=6
EPPS Public and Nonprofit Management Program
https://epps.utdallas.edu/about/programs/public-and-nonprofit-management/
EPPS Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/UTDEPPS
EPPS Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/utdepps
EPPS Twitter
https://twitter.com/UTDEPPS
Danyelle and Ricardo sit down with Dr. Kimberly Burdine, licensed psychologist and assistant director of the UT Dallas Student Counseling Center, to discuss whether we could ever destigmatize mental health concerns.
(Clip from “SuperSoul Sunday” on OWN)
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UT Dallas Student Counseling Center
https://utdallas.edu/counseling/
UT Dallas Student Counseling Center’s Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/utdcounseling/
UT Dallas Student Counseling Center’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/utdcounseling/
In our first episode of 2020, Danyelle and Ricardo review the dark side of creativity with Dr. Magdalena Grohman, associate director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology at UT Dallas.
(Clip from “Jurassic Park” by Universal Pictures)
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Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/technology/facial-recognition-race-artificial-intelligence.html
How a Self-Driving Uber Killed a Pedestrian in Arizona
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/self-driving-uber-pedestrian-killed.html
Dr. Magdalena Grohman
https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/people/faculty_detail.php?faculty_id=376
Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology
https://www.utdallas.edu/c4v/
The holidays cause a bit of a change in our episode schedule, and Danyelle and Ricardo preview our January episode.
Ricardo and Danyelle sit down with Dr. Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of criminology, who dissects the question: “Could we ever use science to fight crime?”
(Clip from “Unbelievable” by Netflix)
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D.A.R.E.
https://www.livescience.com/33795-effective.html
Dallas District Attorney John Cruezot
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2019/04/11/dallas-da-reveals-plan-for-ending-mass-incarceration-for-petty-crimes-slashing-probation-and-bail/
Dallas DA’s Plan to Give Petty Criminals a Pass Could Backfire, Police Leaders Argue
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2019/04/12/dallas-da-s-plan-to-give-petty-criminals-a-pass-could-backfire-police-leaders-argue/
UT Dallas Criminologist Tackles Perception of NFL Players
https://www.utdallas.edu/news/research/ut-dallas-criminologist-tackles-perception-of-nfl/
Crime Risks Increase in Areas Proximate to Theme Parks: A Case Study of Crime Concentration in Orlando
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/07418825.2019.1677935
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
https://epps.utdallas.edu/
On today’s show, Ricardo and Danyelle talk with Sara Asberry, a registered dietitian with the UT Dallas Student Wellness Center, who tackles the question: “Could we ever conquer diet culture?”
(Clip from “Mean Girls” by Paramount Pictures)
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Oxidative Stress: Harms and Benefits for Human Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551541/
Is Dieting Passe? Study Finds Fewer Overweight People Try To Lose Weight
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/08/519080766/is-dieting-passe-study-finds-fewer-overweight-people-try-to-lose-weight
UT Dallas Student Wellness Center
https://www.utdallas.edu/studentwellness/nutrition/
UT Dallas Student Wellness Center on social media
https://www.facebook.com/utd.wellness
https://www.instagram.com/healthycomets/
On today’s show, Ricardo and Danyelle talk with Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and she answers the question, “Could we ever have robotic surgery without the surgeons?”
(Clip from “I, Robot” by Twentieth Century Fox)
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FDA warns about robotic devices for mastectomy and other cancer surgeries
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/01/health/fda-warning-robotic-surgery-mastectomy/index.html
FDA warning
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/caution-when-using-robotically-assisted-surgical-devices-womens-health-including-mastectomy-and
Dr. Ann Majewicz Fey
https://me.utdallas.edu/people/majewicz.html
Human-Enabled Robotic Technology (HERO) Lab
https://www.utdallas.edu/hero/
Mechanical Engineer Perfecting the Performance of Surgical Robotics
https://www.utdallas.edu/news/research/nsf-career-award-funds-improvements-to-surgical-robotics/
The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/JonssonSchool
https://twitter.com/utdjonsson
https://www.instagram.com/utdallasjonsson/
“Could We Ever...” shines a light on UT Dallas experts and asks them to tackle questions you never knew you needed answered — from science to art and more.
Produced by the UT Dallas Office of Communications.
Music by Roxanne Minnish, senior lecturer in the UT Dallas School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication.
Artwork by Rachael Drury, arts and technology senior student.