Catch up with The Academic Minute from 7.6- 7.10
Monday, July 6
Michael Howell – University of Minnesota
Athletic Slumber
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.
Tuesday, July 7
Kentaro Toyama – University of Michigan
Equality of Technology
Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information and a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. He is the author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. For more information see http://kentarotoyama.org.
Wednesday, July 8
Larry Stevens – Northern Arizona University
Chocolate Brain Boost
Dr. Stevens’ primary interests are in teaching and research in the broad sub-specialty of health psychology and behavioral medicine. Dr. Stevens coordinates a very active undergraduate and graduate research program in the psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, of compassion, of psychotherapy techniques, and particularly in clinical hypnosis. He uses electroencephalography (EEG) and EEG neuroimaging techniques to measure and to display brain changes from a variety of states of consciousness
Thursday, July 9
Chris Liu – University of Toronto
Ideology and Proximity
Christopher Liu is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Rotman. His research explores spatial networks: how geography shapes the ability of individuals and firms to enter into some (but not other) relationships and networks. Empirical settings for his work have ranged from scientists working within a biotechnology firm to the US Senate Chamber. Chris also has a long-standing interest on scientists, innovation and productivity, and continues to actively conduct research in this area.
Friday, July 10
Catherine Le Gouis – Mount Holyoke College
The Humor of Marcel Proust
Catherine Le Gouis is Professor of French at Mount Holyoke College, where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Her area of research is French and Russian comparative literature; her current project is a biography of Nina Petrovskaya, a writer of Silver Age (early twentieth-century) Russia. Among her recent publications is “The Woman on the Cross: Ritual and Self-Sacrifice in the Decadent Search for Meaning” (The Russian Review).
