This Week on The Academic Minute
Monday
Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, research scientist in astronomy at the University of California, San Diego, examines how big a planet can be.
Tuesday
Jean Wactawski-Wende, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University at Buffalo, discovers healthy aging is critical for the present and the future.
Wednesday
Kim Miller, professor of art history, and coordinator of the Peace and Social Justice Studies Program at Wheaton College, examines the role friendship can play in political and resistance movements.
Thursday
Jonas Mureika, chair and professor of physics at Loyola Marymount University, examines what physics has to say on whether you can paint like Jackson Pollock.
Friday
Carrie Cuttler, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cannabis Research Center at Washington State University, investigates how cannabis may affect your memory after use, but to what extent?
Catch up with The Academic Minute from 7/6 - 7/10
Monday
Harry Reis - University of Rochester
How to Feel Loved
Harry Reis, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, is one of the world’s leading experts on relationships and connection and has studied the complexities of well-being and love in depth. His research examines the factors that influence the quantity and closeness or social interaction, and the consequences of different patterns of socializing for health and psychological well-being. Truly feeling loved, he has found, differs widely from the actions that we usually associate with loving, being loved, and falling in love.
Tuesday
Fabian Klenner - University of California, Riverside
How Do We Search for Life Beyond Earth?
Fabian Klenner is an Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) in Germany. Prior to joining UC Riverside, he held postdoctoral appointments at FUB and the University of Washington. Being involved in various space missions, Fabian Klenner’s research centers around ocean worlds in the solar system. His research group addresses astrobiological questions to advance our understanding of extraterrestrial geochemical processes and the detection of potential life beyond Earth.
Wednesday
Emery N. Brown - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Your Brainstem’s Bundles
Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School; and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Brown is a neuroscientist-anesthesiologist-statistician whose research has contributed toward understanding how anesthetics act in the brain. In his statistics research he has developed signal processing algorithms to solve important data analysis challenges in neuroscience. For his work he received the National Medal of Science in January 2025.
Thursday
Ken Brown - University of Iowa
AI is Not Just For Work Anymore
Ken Brown, Ph.D., is Tippie Children Professor of Management in the Tippie College of Business and department executive officer of the Educational Policy and Leadership Studies Department, College of Education, both at the University of Iowa. He earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Maryland and MA and PhD degrees in Psychology from Michigan State University. Brown is the former associate dean of the undergraduate program in Tippie and served as a Fulbright Specialist at Seoul National University.
Friday
Samantha Dodson - University of Calgary
She Sees the Trees, He Sees the Forest: Gender Stereotypes of Concreteness and Abstractness
Samantha Dodson’s research program focuses on when and why women experiencing roadblocks and adversity are evaluated as deserving of opportunities and support at work.
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