The Academic Minute for 2015.6.8 – 6.12

Catch up with The Academic Minute from 6.8- 6.12

Monday, June 8
Lori Hunter – University of Colorado Boulder
Environmental Migration
Dr. Lori Hunter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder and Faculty Research Associate in the Institute of Behavioral Science. Hunter’sresearch and teaching focus on population-environment interactions with her primary research examining migration as a livelihood strategy among rural households in South Africa and Mexico. She has published extensively on this topic and others in academic outlets such as Society and Natural Resources, International Migration Review, and Population Research and Policy Review. Hunter is Associate Director of the CU Population Center, has been Editor-in-Chief of Population and Environment since 2007, and regularly undertakes research dissemination through collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau. In 2007, Hunter was a member of USAID’s Assessment Team tasked with examining Population-Health-Environment initiatives across the globe.

Tuesday, June 9
Brian Southwell – UNC Chapel Hill
Misinformation
Dr. Brian Southwell is Director of the Science in the Public Sphere Program in the Center for Communication Science at RTI International. Southwell also is a Research Professor (of Mass Communication) and Adjunct Associate Professor (of Health Behavior) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor with Duke University’s Energy Initiative, a university-wide effort to promote innovation in energy research. Dr. Southwell’s award-winning contributions appear in more than 70 journal articles and chapters and have been recognized with major awards by the International Communication Association and National Communication Association.

Wednesday, June 10
Sarah Allen – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Concussion Recovery
Sarah Levin Allen, PhD, CBIS is assistant professor of psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and executive director of Neuropsychology at Brain Behavior Bridge. She received her PhD in clinical psychology with a concentration in pediatric neuropsychology from the APA-accredited program at Drexel University, where she worked with biomedical engineering on functional imaging tools such as the functional near infared spectroscopy as well as new software for assessing navigation abilities in men and women. Throughout her doctoral experiences, Dr. Allen trained at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Bancroft NeuroHealth, and other outpatient neurology clinics. In addition, her post-doctoral education working in schools has enabled her to apply her neuropsychological assessment and intervention skills to a school setting.

Thursday, June 11
Jean M. Twenge – San Diego State University
Millenial Sexuality
Jean M. Twenge, Professor of psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and the books Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before and The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (co-authored with W. Keith Campbell). Dr. Twenge frequently gives talks and seminars on teaching and working with today’s young generation based on a dataset of 11 million young people. Her audiences have included college faculty and staff, high school teachers, military personnel, camp directors, and corporate executives. Her research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Friday, June 12
Lisa Phillips – SUNY New Paltz
A Study of Unrequited Love
Lisa A. Phillips, an assistant professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession published by HarperCollins in 2015. The Washington Post called Unrequited “an ingenious hybrid of memoir, case study, scientific inquiry and intellectual history, not only of unrequited love but of Love, full stop, with a capital L.” Unrequited has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, Maclean’s, and Salon.