Monday
Alberto Caban-Martinez, Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, rethinks how discovery happens.
Tuesday
Nina Huang, professor and chair of business technology, discusses how to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of artificial intelligence on human behavior.
Wednesday
Willy Prado, distinguished university professor of nursing and health studies, public health sciences, and psychology, explores the possibilities of AI helping to bridge the mental health equity gap for Hispanic youth.
Thursday
Jill Ehrenreich-May, professor of psychology and pediatrics, says if we want to maximize the impact of research on youth anxiety, asking the right questions matters.
Friday
Justin Stoler, professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, explores America’s quiet water crisis.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 8/24 - 8/28
Monday
Marcos Fernandez-Tous - University of North Dakota
AI is Making Spacecraft Propulsion More Efficient
I currently coordinate the Space Studies Propulsion Lab within the Department of Space Sciences and offer courses on space propulsion, air-breathing engines, and hypersonic aerodynamics. My teaching emphasizes project-based learning and follows the Innovation-Based Learning methodology.
Tuesday
Angeline S. Lillard - Virginia Tech
Montessori Schools Lead to Better Outcomes at Lower Cost
Angeline S. Lillard is the Commonwealth Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia where she directs the Early Development Laboratory and the Montessori Science Program; her research focuses on children’s play and Montessori education. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, and Chief Editor of Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. She received her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University in 1991, and the American Psychological Association’s Boyd McCandless Award for her early career contributions to Developmental Science. Her book, Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius (Oxford University Press) received the Cognitive Development Society Book Award, is translated into several languages, and is currently in its 3rd edition.
Wednesday
Sonia Villapol - Houston Methodist Research Institute
Trust Your Gut to Heal Your Brain
Dr. Sonia Villapol is an Associate Professor and neuroscientist at the Center for Neuroregeneration and the Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute (Houston, TX). She received her B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2003) and completed an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2007). She pursued postdoctoral research at the CNRS–Université Pierre et Marie Curie (VI) and INSERM in Paris, and later at the National Institutes of Health/Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine and the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD.
Thursday
Katherine Wilkinson - San Jose State University
Proprioception
Katherine Wilkinson is a Professor of biology at San José State University in San Jose, California. Wilkinson’s specialty is studying and understanding proprioception–how our brains understand our physical presence in the world–a complex sensory system related to balance and coordination.
Friday
Resh Gupta - Washington University in St. Louis
Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Cognitive Control
Resh Gupta is a postdoctoral research associate with the Mindfulness Science & Practice Cluster and the Cognitive Control & Psychopathology Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University where she examined the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on event-related potential markers of attentional bias in anxious populations. Her current research utilizes EEG, behavioral, and self-report methods to understand the effects of mindfulness on attentional and cognitive control in anxious populations.
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