
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
May 12, 2021
31 min

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
Mar 24, 2021
39 min

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&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
Dec 2, 2020
37 min

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
Nov 4, 2020
42 min

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/
Oct 7, 2020
30 min

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.
Oct 5, 2020
3 min

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
May 6, 2020
33 min

You can find our new show, Comets Discuss, on major podcasting platforms and at utdallas.edu/cometcast/comets-discuss/
Apr 10, 2020
1 min

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
Apr 1, 2020
29 min
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