This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, assistant professor of psychology and neural science at New York University, says putting a figure on a person’s bilingual experience can be daunting.
Tuesday
Aron Barbey, the Andrew J. McKenna Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, looks at how our brain organizes information.
Wednesday
Erin M. Kenney, assistant professor of psychology at Hartwick College, delves into how children talk about themselves and other people.
Thursday
Zoey Chen, PhD candidate in health services research at Brown University, examines how an old Medicare rule is keeping older adults in hospitals longer than necessary.
Friday
Sharaya Jones, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University, explores why emotions play a huge part in the process of choosing things for a group.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 7/20 - 7/24
Monday
Kristin Bidoshi - Union College
What Does it Mean to Teach Language During War?
Kristin Bidoshi, professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, discusses this through language teaching in Ukraine.
Tuesday
Guillermina Seri - Union College
Democracy, Markets, Rights, and Emergency Rule
Guillermina Seri is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College, NY, where she teaches courses in political theory and Latin American Politics. Seri is the author of the books Seguridad: Crime, Police Power, and Democracy in Argentina (Continuum, 2012) and Neoliberalism and Unlawful Governance. The Crisis of Democratic Rights (University of Michigan Press, 2026), and co-editor of the volume Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies (Palgrave, 2018.
Wednesday
Holli Frey - Union College
Tick, Tick… Boom! Unraveling the Secrets of Caribbean Volcanoes
Holli Frey is a professor of Geosciences from Union College (NY). She studies volcanoes, trying to understand the plumbing systems beneath them, looking for clues as to how and why they erupt. She is particularly interested in mineral chemistry and chronology and uses a variety of analytical tools to address fundamental questions about magma evolution.
Thursday
Stephen Schmidt - Union College
Making A [Tax] Effort for Black Students’ Education
Stephen Schmidt has been professor of economics at Union College since 1994, after completing his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University. He was appointed the Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Economics in September 2019. His research interests include the economics of education, especially education finance, and the normative evaluation of economic outcomes and policies. He has published articles in American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), Journal of Public Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Higher Education, Theoria, Restoration Ecology, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Southern Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and others. He teaches courses in econometrics, game theory, intermediate microeconomics, the economics of race, and normative economics, as well as the College’s first-year inquiry seminar.
Friday
Mariah Purol - Union College
What Happens to Our Love Lives When the Rest of Life Gets Messy
Mariah received her PhD in Social & Personality Psychology from Michigan State University in 2024. She is currently a faculty member in the Psychology department of Union College. Her work examines how both individuals’ and their partners’ characteristics influence their relationship satisfaction, life satisfaction, and well-being. To that end, she’s interested in how we create happy, satisfying lives as individuals (studying traits like gratitude and optimism), and as relationship members (studying constructs like interpersonal perceptions and personality in romantic relationships/friendships).
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