Browsing by Author "Garfinkle, David"
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Administrators and Academic Values
Garfinkle, David (Oakland University, 2006-10-01)What... is a professor at Oakland University to do in the face of an administration with weak academic values? The best advice seems to be that of Voltaire: “one must cultivate one’s own garden.” We must do our teaching ... -
Ask the Professor: Especially One Who Knows the Answer
Garfinkle, David (Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Isaac Newton’s stunning success, the theory of gravity, seemed disturbing to many contemporaries; it required one to accept that heavenly bodies could act on one another at a distance with nothing intervening. To some, ... -
Bar Scene
Murphy, Brian (Oakland University, 2015-01-01) -
Book Review: Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter
Lindemann, Charles B. (Oakland University, 2015-01-01)Review of book Three Steps to the Universe by brothers David and Richard Garfinkle -
Book Review: University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics
Quinn, James (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Assessment of the culture and practices of the whole of university life from the perspective of ethics. -
The Books I Wanted to Write
Brieger, Gottfried (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Author lists book titles he would have liked to have written and humorous descriptions of them. -
A Bridge Too Far
Byrne, Bill (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)High school senior narrates his experience of arranging and supervising his English class at a play in New York. -
A Computational Analysis of Black Hole Interiors
Haehn, MaxxThis project will explore the interiors of black holes using computer simulations. Currently, photographs are being released of black holes, but because of their powerful singularities where even light cannot escape, the ... -
Cosmology, Doom, and Gloom: Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings
Garfinkle, David (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)If population growth is unchecked, or not sufficiently checked, there are any number of things that could cause a catastrophic collapse and extinction of the human species. These include (but are not limited to) worldwide ... -
Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents
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Cover, Statement of Purpose, Table of Contents
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A Fifty Year Remembrance of Jack Barnard
Thomas, S. Bernard (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Personal remembrance of Oakland University faculty member Jack Barnard. -
I Am Not My Hair
Turner, Feliece (Oakland University, 2015-01-01)People in society often base their identity on the way they look, modeling themselves after images seen in the media. Constructed through cultural ideals, image as identity has be come the basis for determining societal ... -
The Impact of Short Message Services on Writing
Gabrion, Laura (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)How texting is changing college students writing skills. -
Individual Decision for a Science Education: Path for Growth
Sanches, Fabio Iunes (Oakland University, 2015-01-01)Microeconomics role in college students career decisions. -
An Intellectual Revolution
Wynne, Steven (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Classical teachings of Aristotle instigated an academic revolution against the Catholic Church and the established Christian doctrine. Between 1210 and 1277, the Bishops of Paris ordered three official condemnations of the ... -
Matthew Stanley’s Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington: Valence Values and the Late Victorian Science-Religion Interface/Divide- A Review Essay
Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V. (Oakland University, 2009-01-01)The relationship of science to religion and literature continues to be an issue of vexation, especially here in the U.S. A logical way, perhaps, to begin this review essay on a late Victorian, early-modern work integrating ... -
Multiple Paths to Full Professor: Challenges to the Academy in the 21st Century
Moore, Kathleen; Cunningham, Joi; Guessous, Laila; Reger, Jo; Roth, Brad; Walters, Julie; DeVreugd, Leanne (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Article first explains the dominant form of faculty promotion used in U.S. colleges and universities. Second, key economic, political, and social factors are discussed in the context of an institutional mission linked with ...