Academic Minute from 3.28 – 4.1
Monday, March 28
Chris Hopwood – Michigan State University
Women More Sensitive to Annoying Behavior
Christopher J. Hopwood, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University where he is Principal Investigator of the Personality and Psychopathology lab and co-Director of the Interpersonal Problems Clinic. Dr. Hopwood is an Associate Editor at the journals Assessment and Journal of Personality Disorders and a board member of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Society for Personality Assessment, and North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders.
Tuesday, March 29
Elliot Berkman – University of Oregon
How Poverty Reduces Self-Control
Elliot Berkman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and Associate Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience. He studies the motivational and cognitive factors that contribute to success and failure at health goals such as cigarette smoking cessation and dieting. His research leverages the distinct strengths of several research methods, including functional magnetic resonance imaging, longitudinal survey methods, and laboratory experiments. This work adopts a translational neuroscience approach by using knowledge of brain function, structure, and connectivity to design and improve interventions on health behavior and wellbeing. He teaches social psychology, social neuroscience, and statistics. He directs the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, writes the blog “The Motivated Brain” at Psychology Today, and tweets under @Psychologician.
Wednesday, March 30
Sean Gulick – University of Texas at Austin
Effect of Climate on Mountain Building
Sean Gulick is a research scientist and professor at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. Gulick is interested in tectonic-climate interactions, the role of catastrophes in the geologic record and marine geophysical imaging. His current projects include tectonic and climate interactions in the St. Elias Mountains and surveyor submarine fan; geohazards and margin evolution of subduction and transform faulting in Alaska, Sumatra, and Japan; and the geologic processes and environmental effects of the Chicxulub meteor impacts.
Thursday, March 31
Craig Garfield -Northwestern University
PTSD Treatments
Craig Garfield is a practicing pediatrician and physician-scientist in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Social Science at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine as well as an attending physician at the Anne and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. His research focuses on the three P’s: Parents, Parenting, and Pediatrics. After graduation with a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Dr. Garfield received his medical degree at Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (CSP) at the University of Chicago, a two-year health services research program, and obtained a Masters in the Art of Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy as a Harris Child and Family Scholar at the University of Chicago. From 2005-2008 he was a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar.
As a preventionist, his research focuses on improving the health of children and families by understanding the role parents play in the health and wellbeing of children, in particular the role of fathers. Lately, he had also been focusing on the influence children play on the health and wellbeing of parents. His research on the role of father in families has been published in such peer-reviewed journals as JAMA, Pediatrics, Academic Pediatrics, AJPH, and Fathering. He recently was awarded a five-year K23 grant from NICHD for his project “Young Men’s Health and the Transition to Fatherhood.” He also recently completed a study exploring ways to use technology to support parents with medically vulnerable children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) via a grant from the Agency for Health and Research Quality.
Friday, April 1
Hemant Sashittal – St. John Fisher College
Reaching College Students Through Snapchat
Hemant Sashittal currently serves as professor of marketing at the School of Business at St. John Fisher College. His research interests are social media marketing, product innovation, strategy and implementation, and pedagogy.
