Monday
Phu Phung, associate professor of computer science at the University of Dayton, explains why deleting cookies isn’t enough to stop online tracking.
Tuesday
Dannell Boatman, assistant professor of cancer prevention and control at West Virginia University, takes a look what Ivermectin teach us about health misinformation.
Wednesday
Kent Kauffman, professor of business law at Purdue University Fort Wayne, discusses the values and threats of academic freedom.
Thursday
Whitney Coyle, associate professor of physics at Rollins College, examines the long-term impacts of rocket launches on nearby communities.
Friday
Daniel Thornton, associate professor of wildlife ecology at Washington State University, details how intelligence can be a boon to conservation science.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 9/7 - 9/11
Monday
Katy Liu - Duke University
Immune Cells Play Key Role in Regulating Eye Pressure Linked to Glaucoma
Dr. Katy Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Duke University Eye Center. She is a board certified, glaucoma fellowship-trained clinician-scientist with a PhD in Cell & Molecular Physiology, and her primary focus is to make basic science discoveries that can be translated from the bench to glaucoma patients.
Tuesday
Jaime Banks - Syracuse University
AI Companionship: Real Relationships, Artificial Partners
Jaime Banks is Professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. After earning a Ph.D. in Public Communication and Technology from Colorado State University, she has been previously faculty in Ontario, West Virginia, and Texas. Her work is animated by questions about the relationships between humans and social technologies (mostly social AI, social robots, and videogame characters), examined through mixed methodologies.
Wednesday
Gregory Keoleian - University of Michigan
Step Off the Gas and Charge
Dr. Greg Keoleian is the Peter M. Wege Professor of Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan and serves as co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems, which he cofounded in 1991. His research focuses on systems analysis including life cycle assessment, life cycle costing, and optimization to accelerate climate and sustainability solutions across energy, mobility, buildings, infrastructure, water and wastewater, IT, food systems, and consumer products. He combines systems analysis, sustainability science, and stakeholder engagement to solve critical sustainability challenges and advances solutions by aligning technology, markets, policy, and behavior drivers. He has collaborated with business and industry, national labs, government agencies, and NGOs on hundreds of applied research projects and publications.
Thursday
Mayank K. Vadaliya - University of the Cumberlands
Traffic and Prediction Models
Mayank Vadaliya is a doctoral candidate in Information Technology at the University of the Cumberlands, where his research focuses on machine learning applied to transportation systems. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Cleveland State University and is a Full Member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society. His work on reinforcement learning for adaptive traffic signal control investigates how learning agents can reduce delay and emissions across urban intersection networks.
Friday
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams - University of North Dakota
The New Reality of Retirement
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, PhD, CRC, CFLE, HS-BCP, is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Program Director of the Undergraduate Rehabilitation and Human Services Program in the Department of Education, Health and Behavior Studies at the University of North Dakota. Her academic and professional work focuses on rehabilitation, mental health, accessibility, aging, and disaster preparedness within educational, community, and human service systems.
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