This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University, explains why taxpayers will be footing the bill for reduced SNAP benefits for older adults.
Tuesday
Jason Davis, research professor and co-director of the Newhouse Synthetic Media Lab at Syracuse University, examines whether humans can tell if they’re talking to a real human or not.
Wednesday
Lawrence Chua, associate professor of Architectural History at Syracuse University, explores architecture as chrono political infrastructure.
Thursday
Ryan Griffiths, professor in the Department of Political Science at Syracuse University, looks into why breaking up America through secession may not be the best idea.
Friday
Dana Cusano, research assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Syracuse University, says vessel collisions are still hindering conservation efforts for whales.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 8/10 - 8/14
Monday
Victoria Fields - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The National Alliance of Black Feminists
Victoria T. Fields is an award-winning educator and scholar. She is currently a doctoral candidate and instructor of record in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Victoria is also a graduate assistant for instructional design at the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, where she crafts content for Gardner Institute academies and co-leads faculty workshops on topics such as engaged pedagogy, moral imagination, and civic engagement in the classroom.
Tuesday
Jonathan Lambert - New York University
Green Clay Tennis Courts Sequester Carbon Dioxide in Plain Sight
Jonathan Lambert is a geochemist and paleoclimatologist in the interdisciplinary-focused Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. His research themes are twofold - past climate change and modern climate solutions. In his paleoclimate research, he uses fossil plankton to reconstruct ocean conditions in the Pacific over the past 1.5 Million years. In his climate solutions work, he evaluates carbon dioxide removal strategies such as enhanced rock weathering, and develops new teaching and outreach approaches for emerging climate solutions.
Wednesday
Kim Plofker - Union College
International Math in 18th-century India
Kim Plofker is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her doctorate from the Department of the History of Mathematics at Brown University in 1995. Her research focuses on the history of mathematics and astronomy in India and its connections with Islamic and early modern European science. Kim Plofker’s books include Mathematics in India (Princeton, 2009); (with Anuj Misra and Clemency Montelle) The Sanskrit Astronomical Table Text Brahmatulyasarini (Brill, 2021); and (with Clemency Montelle and Glen Van Brummelen) From Samarqand to Jaipur: Evolving al-Kashi’s Approximation to the Sine of One Degree (Springer, 2025).
Thursday
Amaryllis Tsiknia - University of Southern California
Novel Markers May Offer Early Clues to Alzheimer’s Risk
Amaryllis is a 4th-year neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley with a degree in Cognitive Science, and then acquired her Master’s degree in Neuroimaging and Informatics. Her current research uses neuroimaging techniques to uncover how metabolic and vascular factors increase our risk for dementia with a special focus on type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Friday
Nancy Huang - Texas A&M University
Inside the Cell’s Secret Droplets
Yun (Nancy) Huang, PhD, is a professor at Texas A&M University Institute of Biosciences and Technology and Associate Director of the Center for Epigenetic and Disease Prevention (CEDP) in the Department of Translational Medical Sciences at the Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine. A principal investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health, the CPRIT, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
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