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 - 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: Silvia Jurisson - Therapeutic uses of radioisotopes

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:52:48 GMT

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: Meera Chandrasekhar - Chandrasekhar’s research collaborations

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:03:16 GMT

Chandrasekhar’s research simply could not be accomplished without a good deal of collaboration with other people.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Timothy Langen - Langen’s collaboration

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:38:42 GMT

Langen describes the rewards of two collaborative projects: _Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays_ (2000) is an anthology of Russian plays that he translated and edited with Justin Weir. He also worked with his brother, Jesse Langen, examining how the music by Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich drew upon the poems of Alexander Blok.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Soren Larsen - Collaboration with other researchers

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:25 GMT

At first, when asked about collaborative research, Larsen joked that cultural geographers “usually fly solo,” because the projects are so time- and field-intensive. Yet Larsen has been involved in a number of collaborations. He worked closely with the Cheslatta people in British Columbia on various projects. At the Colorado field school he shares ideas with a cultural geographer, a GIS specialist, and a physical geographer. And he also collaborates with Matt Foulkes, a population geographer from MU’s Geography department, and Ann Bettencourt, a social psychologist from the Psychology department. Larsen has recently begun collaborating with Jason Dittmer, a geography colleague at Georgia Southern University, to compare the U.S.-based _Captain America_ books with those of _Captain Canuck_, its Canadian parallel. Using content analysis, they have found these comics shed light on matters of nationalism, national identity, and cultural values, as well as responses to cultural change.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Hong S. He - Collaborative research

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:58:32 GMT

“In my field, the individual is very limited,” reflects He. Thus he finds himself involved in a number of collaborations with other people – from other MU faculty to the U.S. Forest Service, the USDA, and international landscape ecology experts.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Hong S. He - Crossing political boundaries

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:58:54 GMT

“We know fire ignores country boundaries. We know insects and disease cross country boundaries. However, as human beings we have to get a visa to go to another country.” He insists, “I find science really doesn’t have a boundary.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: José Garcia - Examples of Garcia’s outreach activities

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:25:30 GMT

Garcia describes a few projects within the realm of sustainable agriculture. For example, Garcia trains extension educators on various sustainability issues. The educators may then go back to their communities and work directly with farmers and workers, “so that those farmers are more exposed to sustainable agriculture issues, including, for example, sustainable agriculture practices, natural resources, conservation issues, and funding opportunities for sustainable agriculture projects for their farms.” Garcia works as well with MU’s community of students, staff, and faculty, offering a monthly seminar called, “What’s New in Sustainable Food and Farming.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: William R. Folk - Collaborating across nations

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:04:24 GMT

William Folk and Quinton Johnson (of the University of the Western Cape) have orchestrated a large collaboration of over a dozen colleagues from universities in South Africa and the United States to create a virtual center that seeks to understand traditional healing practices in South Africa.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: William R. Folk - Crucial need for trust

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:06:03 GMT

The team has completed phase one of the project, which involved establishing the administrative structure for TICIPS and conducting a small-scale clinical trial of the safety of the South African plant Sutherlandia in healthy adults. The next step will involve trying to find scientific evidence about the plant’s safety.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: William R. Folk - Phases of the project

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:10:47 GMT

In its second year, TICIPS has three out of four projects underway. The highest priority is a human clinical trial that will take place in a hospital outside of Durbin, South Africa.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Christina Wells - The law casebook Wells is co-authoring

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:11:21 GMT

Wells’ current project involves collaboration with co-authors Ron Krotoszynski, Steven Gey, Lyrissa Lidsky on a law casebook called _First Amendment: Cases and Theory_ (forthcoming 2008, Aspen Publishing).

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Jim Koller and Karen Weston - Collaborations (Koller)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:42:24 GMT

The Center has been working with the School of Nursing and the College of Education at MU to provide mental health training for nurses, teachers, principals, and school counselors. Thanks to the collaboration with Vocational Rehabilitation, the Department of Health, the national centers on mental health, and other federal agencies, they have been able to do outreach, sharing, collaboration, and program development. “That’s the only way we’re going to be able to surmount some of these issues,” Koller remarks. “Without that collaboration, we would not be where we are today.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Mian Liu - Collaborative work in metamorphism

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:49:55 GMT

In collaboration with another colleague at MU, Peter Nabelek, Liu has been studying metamorphism, “the change in mineral composition of rocks when the pressure and temperature conditions change.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Sharon Welch - An interactive theatre project

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:41:34 GMT

Welch has been working for the past six years with Suzanne Burgoyne of MU’s theatre department to employ an interactive theatre technique in classrooms and workshops that teaches conflict resolution skills. This research and pedagogical approach is on-going. Recently it morphed into something called the Difficult Dialogues Project—an interdisciplinary initiative involving MU and 42 other institutions to address the threats to academic freedom at the university. The project is designed “to empower students to express opposing views respectfully and in the spirit of open-mindedness.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Sharon Welch - MU’s Difficult Dialogues Project

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:53:35 GMT

One of Welch’s projects involves the Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public: “As the professions become aware of the different religious traditions with which people work, it raises questions about what constitutes ethical behavior. People have different meanings of what counts as ethical. How do we learn to adjudicate these in a better way?” CRPP’s ethics consortium brings people from multiple disciplines together to look at deep ethical issues. Another project with which Welch is active is MU’s Difficult Dialogues Project, a collaborative initiative that joins the forces of various administrative, faculty, and student groups. Using interactive theater, the project aims to address difficult multicultural issues in “an environment in which differing views are defended, heard, and considered by those who hold conflicting ideas and values across cultures.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Carolyn Henry - Collaborative Efforts

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:10:13 GMT

Some of the collaborative efforts Henry has been a part of include research with pharmaceutical companies, the MU Research Reactor, and the Veterinary Cancer Society.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Nancy M. West - Valuing collaboration

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:30:50 GMT

Collaboration has been at the forefront of West’s research from the beginning. Although collaboration is said to take twice a long as working on something by yourself, West reports “I’ve always thought it was really sad in some ways to be an academic, working so much in isolation. Questions arise, such as ‘whom am I writing this for, how many people are going to read it, and what social good am I doing?’ For me collaboration helps alleviate some of those anxieties about the usefulness of the work. Whenever I get anxious, I can turn to my co-author and ask, ‘Why are we doing this project again, and why is it important?’ We can sort of borrow each other’s energies at different times. There is truly that spirit of doing it together—a joint venture.” In this spirit, West has collaborated on a number of conference papers and articles with graduate students and other colleagues because she finds that collaboration pushes her in different ways. For example, working with Pelizzon, with whom she wrote _From Celluloid to Tabloid_, challenged West to be a better writer. “She is a wonderful stylist,” says West of her poet collaborator, so that “whenever I write a sentence and revise it, I wonder if it is a sentence she would like, or how I could make it better. She also tells great narratives, knows how to tweak anecdotes really well, and knows how to make a critical book read like a narrative, which is a real gift.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: So-Yeon Yoon - Collaborative Projects

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:21:16 GMT

Most of Yoon’s projects are collaborative in nature. She works with specialists from computer programming, data-base design, and hotel and restaurant management. “Collaboration is essential in this field,” she observes. Her colleagues are in fact scattered across the nation: “It doesn’t really matter these days because we can use live chat or GoToMeeting. This kind of technology allows us to actually work together quite seamlessly without meeting face-to-face.”

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Alex Barker - Collaborative Research

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:02:53 GMT

“Collaboration is necessary for someone like me because I don’t have a field,” says Barker. “Am I an anthropological archaeologist or am I a museum director? I’m both. We often talk about interdisciplinary research; by necessity, mine is completely interdisciplinary. It is always sitting between and spanning multiple disciplines.” He collaborates, for example, with other museums and research centers, for example with Michael D. Glascock of the Missouri Reactor Center’s Archaeometry Laboratory.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chris Hardin - The Metabolic Kitchen: a collaborative experiment

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:47:25 GMT

The Nutritional Sciences department is a part of three colleges, and is collaborating with three departments to create a metabolic kitchen. Hardin is overseeing the project, which he hopes will work to combat the obesity epidemic in the U.S.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Chris Hardin - The Tetanus Tour

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:31:35 GMT

Hardin gives a tour of what will become MU’s state-of-the-art metabolic kitchen. Although the space in the basement of the Nutritional Sciences building is currently full of old rat cages and unusable lab equipment, Hardin envisions shiny countertops and places to package food. He also hopes to be able to record cooking demonstrations and investigate the way children select their food.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Shubhra Gangopadhyay - Campus Collaboration

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:12:38 GMT

For Gangopadhyay, collaboration is one of the most important parts of scientific research. “If you don’t have the right collaborators,” she remarks, “it’s impossible to move your field to the next level.” Many of the collaborations with which she is involved are possible only on the MU campus.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Enos Inniss - Partnerships

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:31:25 GMT

Several groups of people are involved in Inniss’ water plant research: the regulatory agency, the treatment facility, the consultants, and MU. “There are several entities responsible for water quality, and for improvements to the water quality," he notes. "We work with them, and we feel like we’re a component in that whole structure."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: John Miles Foley - Collaborations

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:38:45 GMT

Foley is grateful to have had fruitful collaboration with other scholars. Early in his career he carried on formative fieldwork with Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern and Joel Halpern (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), and studied with Albert Lord (Harvard University) at the Parry Collection of Oral Literature. Walter Ong (Saint Louis University) was a crucial mentor for 20 years. More recent collaborators have included Paolu Zedda, an ethnomusicology professor from Sardinia and a performer of oral poetry; Chao Gejin, Director of the Institute of Ethnic Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Lauri Harvilahti, Director of the Folklore Archive at the Finnish Literature Society; and Bertsozale Elkartea, a group of scholars committed to the study of Basque oral traditions.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Will - Comparing Candy and Cocaine

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:15:24 GMT

Will describes his research on food addiction, explaining "it’s becoming very commonplace and accepted that food is addictive, and that we need to study it just like we study drugs of abuse."

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Matt Will - Addicted to Exercise

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:20:10 GMT

Binge eating, it turns out, is parallel to exercise addiction like the “runner’s high." Through his collaboration in exercise physiology, Will began looking at exercise as a treatment plan for both drug and food addictions.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lori Eggert - Affecting the Outside World

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:54:14 GMT

Sometimes its hard to see beyond the white coats and beakers. Dr. Eggert describes how the work in her lab affects the world outside, including influencing legislature and building public knowledge about local wildlife.

SyndicateMizzou Podcast: Lori Eggert - Collaborations

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:55:45 GMT

With the kind of scale that Dr. Eggert’s projects involve, collaboration is essential. Here she describes some of those collaborations and how they work.