Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Zhen Yan, Professor and Director of the Center for Exercise Medicine Research. examines whether there is better exercise than running for blood sugar control.
Tuesday
Sarah Lessard, associate professor, looks into the Keto diet and if it can help you get more benefits from exercising.
Wednesday
Stephanie DeLuca, associate professor and co-director at the Neuromotor Research Clinic, details why early interventions are key for children with cerebral palsy.
Thursday
Read Montague, Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor and Director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research, explores how we distinguish which symptoms belong to Parkinson’s Disease and which belong to essential tremor.
Friday
Alex DiFeliceantonio, Assistant Professor and Interim Co-director of the Center for Health Behaviors Research, examines if Wegovy and Ozempic can help us drink less alcohol.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 4/27 - 5/1
Monday
Ariane Balizet - Texas Christian University
How Studying Shakespeare Makes Better Leaders
Ariane M. Balizet is the inaugural Assistant Provost for Faculty Success and Professor of English at Texas Christian University, where she created a nationally-recognized New Faculty Mentoring Program in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. In addition to the TCU Deans’ Award for Teaching, she has received ten recognitions for research, service, and graduate and undergraduate teaching since joining the faculty in 2008.
Tuesday
Jeannine Gailey - Texas Christian University
Rewriting the Body Story
Jeannine A. Gailey is professor and director of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on sociology of the body, fat studies, gender, sexualities, and deviance. She is the author of the monograph, The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman and co-editor of Fat Oppression Around the World.
Wednesday
Melissa Reynolds - Texas Christian University
The (Deep) History of Media and Medical Misinformation
Melissa Reynolds is a historian of early modern Europe whose research examines how ordinary people understood their relationship to medical and scientific knowledge and to the natural world around them. She received her PhD from Rutgers University and held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor of History at TCU.
Thursday
Amina Zarrugh - Texas Christian University
DNA-Based Ancestry Testing and Misunderstandings of Race
Amina Zarrugh is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on politics and forced disappearance in North Africa as well as race and ethnicity in the U.S. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Critical Sociology, Middle East Critique, Teaching Sociology, and Contexts, among others. She completed her BA in sociology and government and her MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Friday
Xiaolu Zhou - Texas Christian University
AI in World Regional Geography Education
Dr. Xiaolu Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas Christian University and co-leads the Human-Centered AI Future research cluster in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with expertise in Geographic Information Systems, Big Data Analytics, and Urban Informatics. Dr. Zhou has received numerous grants and awards, including the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Award.
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