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Description:: Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Wessels, Cletus
Created:: 2006-06-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Conevery Valencius is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she writes and teaches about U.S. environmental history, the history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. Her recent projects have focused on the history of earthquakes and seismology, the history of the environmental sciences, a...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Valencius, Conevery
Created:: 2015-04-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Part 8/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Gilmer, Robert
Created:: 2010-10-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-05

Description:: Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hassel, Craig
Created:: 2015-11-24
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children‚Äôs Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Pippa, Cristina
Created:: 2016-04-15
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dafna Naphtali talks to Peter Shea about some aspects of her compositional inspiration and process.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Naphtali, Dafna
Created:: 2013-02-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dakota Hosta, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist and her involement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She talks about some ideas from feminist art theory which inform her work, the future of her art practice, and she exhibits three pieces she produced at the I...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hosta, Dakota; Olson, Patricia
Created:: 2013-07-10
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dana Whitco talks to Peter Shea about the work of the Center for Creative Research fostering collaboration between contemporary U. S. movement artists and investigators across the arts and sciences.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Whitco, Dana
Created:: 2013-02-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dan Burk talks to Peter Shea about his work dealing with questions of fallibility raised by scientific and technological evidence in legal cases, such as DNA and fingerprinting.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Burk, Dan
Created:: 2007-11-01
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Daniel Block talks to Peter Shea about his interest in maps, Geographic Information Systems, and his study of food access in urban areas.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Block, Daniel
Created:: 2011-03-03
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13