The Academic Minute for 2015.9.28 – 10.02

Catch up with The Academic Minute from 9.28 – 10.02

Monday, September 28
Mitch Grayson – Medical College of Wisconsin
Asthma Research
Dr. Mitch Grayson graduated with a B.A. from Knox College in Galesburg, IL before attending the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, from which he received his medical degree in 1993.

Tuesday, September 29
Seth Davis – University of Idaho
Beneficial Plant Viruses 
Dr. Seth Davis received his B.S. in Forestry, M.S. in Forest Entomology, and Ph.D. in Forest Science from Northern Arizona University, and Dr. Davis worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a large-scale, transdisciplinary climate change project at the University of Idaho.

Wednesday, September 30
Jason D’Cruz – University at Albany
Self-deception
Jason D’Cruz is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
His work primarily in ethics and moral psychology on the topics of promising, trust, rationalization, and self-deception.  His recent work appears in Ethics, Philosophical Psychology, Ratio, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Thursday, October 1
Mary Murphy – Indiana University
Discrimination of Women in STEM
Dr. Murphy is an assistant professor in Indiana University Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and principle investigator of the Mind and Identity in Context Lab at IU Bloomington.  Murphy’s work focuses on developing and testing theories about how people’s social identities and group memberships interact with the contexts they encounter to affect their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, physiology and motivation.

Friday, October 2
Laura Crysel – Stetson University
Harry Potter Personalities
Laura Crysel received a Ph.D. and M.S. in social psychology from the University of
Florida and a B.A. in psychology from Wake Forest University. She is currently an assistant professor at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Laura is a Gryffindor.