This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Carol Ritter, senior instructor in the Forensic Science Program at Cedar Crest College, says a new method may help fix a dilemma for crime scene investigators.
Tuesday
Francisco Polidoro, Jr., professor of management at the University of Texas at Austin, looks at past NASA designs for a roadmap to breakthroughs today.
Wednesday
Adrienne Rhodes, assistant professor and Rocca Fellow in accounting at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, examines the high turnover rate for CFOs and what to do about it.
Thursday
Ross Hollett, psychology lecturer at Edith Cowan University, says a brief advertisement may be able to cut right through junk food cravings.
Friday
John Yates, John Lytton Young Professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, discusses what protein shape can tell us about Alzheimer’s disease.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 6/1 - 6/5
Monday
Marissa Bergh - New York University
How Housing Influences Nursing Home Moves
Marissa Bergh, BSN, RN, is a PhD student at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research focuses how housing environments shape long-term care trajectories for older adults. Working as geriatric care nurse in New York City, she found her passion supporting older adults to age in their homes — regardless of if that home was a fourth-floor walk-up, a single-room occupancy unit, or a luxury high-rise. Recognizing the vast disparities within the healthcare system surrounding effective delivery of this care, she decided to pursue her doctorate degree at NYU to research how to improve the integration of housing services and long-term care.
Tuesday
Emiko Kranz - New York University
Discrimination Linked to Diminished Immune System Function
Emiko Kranz is a mixed Japanese American PhD student whose work draws on her background in cancer immunotherapy, ethnic studies, and community health science. As a PhD student at NYU’s School of Global Public Health, Kranz researches how discriminatory stress may impact immune health. With a particular interest in T cells, she aims to better understand how chronic discrimination can “wear down” our ability to fight off infections. Kranz is also interested in looking at how historical oppression has shaped neighborhoods, influencing the ways communities adapt to care for themselves and others.
Wednesday
Sewin Chan - New York University
Boomeranging Back to Parents Can Mean Moving Away From Opportunity
Sewin Chan is an economist whose research focuses on economic and financial risks faced by households as they interact with housing, labor and credit markets. She has studied mortgages and housing market risk, consumer credit behavior, pensions, work and retirement decisions, job loss, geographic mobility, and accessible housing.
Thursday
Joe Salvatore - New York University
Could You Match Inaugural Address Quotes to the Presidents Who Spoke Them?
Joe Salvatore is a Clinical Professor and Director of Educational Theatre at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where he teaches courses in ethnodrama, verbatim performance, community-engaged theatre, and new play development, and co-leads the MA in Theatre for Social and Civic Engagement. He also serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.
In 2017, Joe founded the Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL), which, under his direction, has created over 30 video and live performance projects exploring a range of political, cultural, and social topics and facilitated outreach and education programs throughout the United States. Current projects include an international research collaboration examining how interview-based verbatim performance interventions can disrupt discrimination in healthcare delivery; an ethnodrama exploring the impact of clergy sexual abuse on survivors’ spirituality and health; and an interview project examining perceptions of migration in the United States. Joe is the author of Creating Ethnodrama: A Theatrical Approach to Research (Guilford Press).
Friday
Christine Constantinople - New York University
How Animals Make Inferences
Christine Constantinople is an Assistant Professor in Neural Science at NYU. After obtaining a PhD in neurobiology from Columbia University, and postdoctoral research at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Dr. Constantinople joined NYU in 2019. Her lab studies the mechanisms by which neural circuits compute and represent cognitive variables for decision-making.
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