This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Harry Reis, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, examines how to feel loved.
Tuesday
Fabian Klenner, assistant professor of planetary sciences at the University of California, Riverside, explores the cosmos to search for life beyond Earth.
Wednesday
Emery N. Brown, professor of neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says brainstems are hard to image because of their size and density, but that may be about to change.
Thursday
Ken Brown, Tippie Children Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, says AI is not just for work anymore.
Friday
Samantha Dodson, assistant professor of organizational behavior and human resources at the University of Calgary, answers why implicit biases still exist in hiring decisions.
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 6/29 - 7/3
Monday
Nick Dorzweiler - Wheaton College
Understanding the Relationship Between Politics and Anxiety
Nick Dorzweiler joined Wheaton College in 2015, after completing doctoral work at Northwestern University. His research is guided by an overarching interest in the history of the social sciences and its impacts on political life beyond the academy. Nick has published on topics including the politics of popular culture, the history or the social sciences, democratic theory, feminist pedagogy, and the development of Critical Theory in the American academy in outlets such as Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Polity, Constellations, New Political Science, and The History of the Human Sciences.
Tuesday
Naomi Baron - American University
Negotiating How Much AI Reads for Us
Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American University in Washington, DC. She is a Stanford PhD and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Wednesday
Clinton Haarlem - Trinity College
How Ecology and Lifestyle Drives an Animal’s Speed of Sight
Dr. Clinton Haarlem’s research focuses on variation in visual perception rates, both across species and across individuals. Clinton’s work is multidisciplinary and incorporates zoology, ecology and neuroscience to explore the dynamic interplay between sensory perception, behaviour and the environment.
Thursday
Craig Clements - San Jose State University
Understanding the Science of Wildfires and Extreme Fire Behavior
Craig Clements is a professor and chair of the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University, where he is director of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) and director of the Fire Weather Lab. His research focuses on the micro-meteorology and behavior of wildland fires, mountain and boundary-layer meteorology, air pollution and turbulence.
His research and teaching focus includes wildfire meteorology and fire weather, extreme fire behavior, mountain and boundary-layer meteorology, turbulence, and meteorological instrumentation.
Friday
Robert DiNapoli - Binghamton University
Easter Island Myths
Robert DiNapoli is an archaeologist who uses computational modeling and geospatial methods to study the interaction between human populations and the environment. His primary research focuses on the island societies of Polynesia, in particular questions surrounding ancient migrations, demographic patterns, emergence of social complexity, and sustainable resource use.
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