The Academic Minute for 2015.06.01 – 06.05

Catch up with The Academic Minute from 6.1- 6.5

Monday, June 1
Susan Brantley – Penn State University
Hydraulic Fracturing Concerns
Susan Brantley is a distinguished professor of geosciences and director of the Earth and Environmental Institute at Penn State. Her research interests include aqueous geochemistry, geochemical kinetics and, microbial biogeochemistry.

Tuesday, June 2
Michael Howell – University of Minnesota
Paradox Lost
Dr Michael Howell is a neurologist who specializes in sleep disorders and sees patients at Fairview Riverside and Fairview Southdale. He is Program Director of the Clinical Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota as well as Medical Director of the Fairview Sleep Center-Edina. His clinical interests include sleepwalking and related disorders such as REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Sleep Related Eating Disorder, sleep seizures and other violent sleep behaviors.

Wednesday, June 3
Paul Matthew Sutter – Ohio State University
The End of the Universe
Dr. Paul Matthew Sutter is the INFN Fellow in Theoretical Physics at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and Visiting Scholar at Ohio State University. Paul received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Illinois in 2011, and spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics. He now splits his time between Trieste, Italy, and Columbus, Ohio. He recently debuted his #AskaSpaceman podcast [AskASpaceman.com] and would love to hear from you with astronomy questions. Like him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

Thursday, June 4
Martin Krieger – University of Southern California
Mathematical Foundations
Martin H. Krieger is professor of planning at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is trained as a physicist, and has taught in urban planning and policy at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, Michigan, and USC. His nine books are about mathematical modeling, environmental policy, and about theories of planning and design. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Friday, June 5
Renee Beard – College of the Holy Cross
Stigma of Alzheimer’s Disease
Renée L. Beard, Ph.D., received her degree in medical sociology from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her disseration, Managing Memory: clinical facts, biomedical negotiations, and Alzheimer’s identities, was a sociocultural and historical analysis of treating, serving, and experiencing memory loss in clinical practice, advocacy arenas, and everyday life. She completed a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gerontological Public Health at the Institute for Health Research and Policy, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago. Her substantive areas are medical sociology and aging, including the senior rights movement, the bioethics of aging, lay and expert knowledges, doctor-patient interactions, and subjective experiences of illness and aging. Her senior seminar, Illness Narratives, examines the psychosocial impact of various ailments through first-person accounts. She also teaches medical sociology, families & societies, aging & society, and research methods.