{"id":15487,"date":"2016-05-04T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2016-05-04T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:00:20","slug":"new-video-series-puts-discussion-on-the-table-and-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/new-video-series-puts-discussion-on-the-table-and-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"New video series puts discussion \u2018On the Table\u2019 and in your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clemson has launched a new video series that puts experts on your screen when and where you want them. \u201cOn the Table,\u201d\u00a0a public policy series from ClemsonTV, tackles\u00a0such\u00a0tough subjects as concussions in sports, the role of technology in our lives and health screening disparities, providing in-depth discussion from leading researchers and scholars who are members of the Clemson faculty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe wanted to put topics on the table, figuratively and literally, with something very visual to represent the topic,\u201d says ClemsonTV director Jacob Barker. \u201cThe web is flooded with how-to videos, but there is very little to offer in the way of substantive discussion. We wanted to combine expert information with the flexibility of on-demand viewing.\u201d
\nEach episode is hosted by Peter Kent, a career journalist and former science writer at Clemson. The first three episodes are available now, with several more in production.<\/p>\n

In episode one,\u00a0\u201cProtecting Against Concussions,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Greg Batt, an assistant professor in food, nutrition and packaging, and John DesJardins, an associate professor in bioengineering, explain their work with the national Head Health Initiative on three challenges: finding better tools for doctors to detect brain injury; creating new ways to monitor head impacts as they happen; and developing improved, energy-absorbing and energy-reducing materials.<\/p>\n

The second episode,\u00a0\u201cTo Trust or Not To Trust,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>features Richard Pak, an associate professor in psychology and his research on the relationship between humans and the technology that makes hundreds of hidden decisions in our lives every day. The outcomes can be beneficial, such as self-driving cars that improve highway safety and driving efficiency. Sometimes, however, they can be detrimental. Are we trusting technology enough or too much?<\/p>\n

In episode three,\u00a0\u201cWitness Breast Cancer Awareness,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Rachel Mayo, a professor in public health sciences, talks about the power of a personal experience that led her to launch the South Carolina Witness Project, part of the National Witness Project. The effort, a network of survivors and community-based organizations, aims to eliminate the disparity of breast and cervical cancer diagnoses and deaths: Black women are more likely to have mammograms, but much more likely to die of breast cancer. Mayo\u2019s research shows that how information is presented makes a difference.<\/p>\n

Yet another episode looks at Wade Foster.<\/strong>
\nWade Foster was 13 when he helped to build a university he could never attend. His children could never attend. His grandchildren could never attend. Foster was a criminal; a black boy caught stealing six dollars worth of clothes from a white family. Sentenced to six months in prison, South Carolina gave Foster to Clemson University to serve his sentence as convict labor. South Carolina called convict labor \u201cslaves of the state.\u201d
\nRhondda Thomas, associate professor of African American Literature at Clemson, sheds light on the slaves who labored to build the institution and why it\u2019s necessary to paint the full picture of a school\u2019s history.
\nThomas joined the university in 2007 and teaches African American literature in the English department. She is the author of \u201cExodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903 and the editor of Jane Edna Hunter\u2019s autobiography, \u201cA Nickel and a Prayer.\u201d In 2013, she co-edited \u201cThe South Carolina Roots of African American Thought\u201d with Clemson professor of English Susanna Ashton.
\nLast year she received a grant\u00a0for her research about African Americans who lived and labored on Clemson land during the pre-1963 integration period. James E. Bostic Jr. and Edith H. Bostic of Atlanta awarded Thomas $50,000. That gift was matched by the university, bringing the total grant to $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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