This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Victoria Fields, doctoral candidate and instructor of record in Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explores the history of the National Alliance of Black Feminists.
Tuesday
Jonathan Lambert, visiting assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Climate Science at New York University, says green clay tennis courts can be used for climate mitigation.
Wednesday
Kim Plofker, associate professor of mathematics at Union College, examines the history of collaboration in mathematics.
Thursday
Amaryllis Tsiknia, neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, may have found a clue for early Alzheimer’s detection.
Friday
Nancy Huang, professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Texas A&M University, determines how one aggressive form of cancer can be set off by an accident in our cells.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 8/3 - 8/7
Monday
Nikki Keene Woods - Wichita State University
Why Patient Trust Determines Whether Technology Improves Care During Pregnancy
Dr. Nikki Keene Woods is an applied behavioral scientist and public health professor. She joined WSU in 2012. She has master’s degrees in behavioral science and public health in addition to a PhD in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Kansas. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the local chapter the Kansas ACHE. Her research centers on maternal/child health, with an emphasis on advancing health outcomes for women and underserved populations through applied interdisciplinary research. She has led or co-led numerous federally and state-funded projects, including a National Institutes of Health grant on wearable devices for fetal heart rate monitoring, a PCORI grant to improve women’s health, and authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Keene Woods’ scholarship integrates community-engaged methods and applied data analytics to improve population health outcomes in Kansas and beyond.
Tuesday
Heidi VanRavenhorst-Bell - Wichita State University
Measuring Performance of the Mighty Human Tongue
Dr. Heidi VanRavenhorst-Bell has an established interdisciplinary line of research in clinical exercise physiology and orofacial myology. Her work in promoting healthy tongue muscle performance through physical activity has been internationally recognized and showcased on NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Her research also includes R&D and product validation in the health & fitness industry.
Wednesday
JaeHwan Byun - Wichita State University
Rethinking Learning with AI
Dr. JaeHwan Byun is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, College of Applied Studies at Wichita State University. He joined WSU in 2015 and currently serves as Program Chair for the Master of Education in Learning and Instructional Design and Director of the Applied AI in Education Research Lab. Dr. Byun’s work focuses on how educators and learners can engage in learning experiences that are engaging, infused with meaning, and experienced as coherent and complete. Building on longstanding work in educational technology, his current scholarship foregrounds generative AI (GenAI) in education, including studies of teacher adoption and needs, design-based approaches to educator preparation, and how GenAI can function as “design material” that reshapes instructional activity and learning paradigms.
Thursday
Waruna Seneviratne - Wichita State University
Automated Toolless Manufacturing of Composite Structures in Space
Waruna Seneviratne is the Director of the Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS) at the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR), Wichita State University. With over 25 years at NIAR, he leads a diverse research portfolio in advanced manufacturing, inspection, durability, damage tolerance, certification, and aging of composite aircraft structures—supported by agencies including the FAA, DoD, DHS, NASA, and major aerospace manufacturers.
Friday
Nick Solomey - Wichita State University
Helping NASA Study Energy From The Solar Core
Nickolas Solomey’s research is in the area of experimental particle and astroparticle physics, in the past he worked extensively on quark flavor physics by rare decays of hadrons, CP violation with Kaons, the study of nuclear states of matter and hadronic interaction physics. He was the co-spokesman of the Fermilab E907 experiment.
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