Catch up with The Academic Minute from 8.10- 8.14
Monday, August 10
Oksana Chkrebtii – The Ohio State University
Earthworm Invasion
Oksana Chkrebtii is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include uncertainty quantification and statistical inverse problems.
Tuesday, August 11
Gary Wilcox – UT Austin
Alcohol Advertising
Dr. Gary B. Wilcox, John A. Beck Centennial Professor in Communication, holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and two degrees from UT Austin. His current research interests include advertising’s impact on alcohol products, unstructured data analysis, and social media analytic models. His publications include one book, several book chapters, and articles that have appeared in such journals as the InternationalJournal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of - Department of Advertising from 1990 until 1998 and is currently Director of Graduate Programs in Advertising at UT Austin.
Wednesday, August 12
Matthew Xu-Friedman – University at Buffalo
Processing Noise
Dr. Xu-Friedman has been trying to understand how nerve cells function for many years. He started out at Cornell University with Dr. Carl Hopkins, studying African elephant nose fish, and how they recognize each other using electrical discharges. Dr. Xu-Friedman moved to Harvard Medical School to learn about synapses, the connections between nerve cells, from Dr. Wade Regehr. Now at Buffalo, Dr. Xu-Friedman and his lab study the connection between the ear and the brain, and how the properties of the synapses affect how sound information is transmitted.
Thursday, August 13
Rhonda Quinn – Seton Hall University
Evolutionary Catalysts
Rhonda Quinn studies the interaction of modern and extinct humans with the environment. Her primary research focuses on reconstructing selective pressures for the emergence of Homoand dispersal from Africa. She integrates stable isotopic systems with sedimentology and stratigraphy to elucidate hominin adaptations to environmental and climatic change in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya. Quinn teaches courses in paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology and stable isotopic analyses in anthropological contexts at Seton Hall University.
Friday, August 14
Tracy Alloway – University of North Florida
Lying Kids
Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD is an associate professor of psychology and program director of the Psychology Graduate program at the University of North Florida. Her area of research interest is in working memory and has spent over a decade being part of cutting-edge research on the importance of working memory in childhood and education. She has published seven books and almost 100 scientific articles on this topic. She is an associate editor for Applied Cognitive Psychology and also serves on the editorial board of several international scholarly journals
