The Academic Minute for 2016.5.2-5.6

Academic Minute from 5.2 – 5.6

Monday, May 2
Chris Hernandez – Cornell University
Bones Reveal New Engineering Secret
Dr. Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Additionally he is an Adjunct Associate Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Hernandez earned a B.S. in Engineering Sciences Cum Laude with a specialty in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell University he trained as a post-doctoral fellow in Department of Orthopaedics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Hernandez served as Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at Cornell. Dr. Hernandez is a member of the Orthopaedic Research Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. Dr. Hernandez serves on the Program Committee for the Orthopaedic Research Society and has served as a permanent member of an NIH study section (AMS).

Tuesday, May 3
Steven Neuberg – Arizona State University
Women, Ovulation and Mate Guarding
Dr. Steven L. Neuberg, Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, integrates social-cognitive and evolutionary approaches to explore the nature and nuances of prejudices and stereotypes; how features of the ecology influence people’s social behaviors, attitudes, and thought processes; how different fundamental motives shape cognitive processes ranging from attention and memory to economic decision making; and how women think about and interact with one another. He currently leads the ASU Global Group Relations Project, a multidisciplinary and global study of factors, including religion, shaping intergroup conflict.

Neuberg’s research has been published in outlets such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Handbook of Social Psychology, andPerspectives on Psychological Science, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Mental Health. His work with Dr. Mark Schaller on evolutionary approaches to prejudices received the 2013 Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for best paper on intergroup relations from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Neuberg has co-authored a six-edition social psychology textbook, is a Fellow of multiple professional societies, was Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and has served on multiple journal editorial boards and federal grant panels.  He has received several teaching awards, including his university’s Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award.  Neuberg received his A.B. from Cornell University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He thinks that doing science exploring human social behavior is the coolest thing ever.

Wednesday, May 4
Robin Queen –  University of Michigan
Typos and Personality
Robin Queen is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Linguistics, English Language and Literatures and Germanic Languages and Literatures. Her teaching and research center on sociolinguistic questions related to language contact, language ideology, and language change. She has also considered questions concerning the ties between language and social identities. Her work draws on data from a wide variety of sources, including Turkish-German bilinguals, American lesbians, daytime television dramas and American films dubbed into German.  She is currently working on a book-length manuscript about language variation in the mass media that is under contract for Wiley-Blackwell.

Professor Queen regularly teaches Language and Discrimination; Language in the Mass Media; Sociolinguistics and Language and Sexuality.  She has supervised a wide range of graduate dissertations focused on topics as varied as language change in African American

Among other service assignments, she has served the University on the Faculty Senate and on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching; the College on the Instructional Technology Committee and the Advisory Board of the Language Resource Center; and the Department in a variety of capacities, including as Director of Graduate Studies.  She was the co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics for the Linguistic Society of America and is the co-director (w/Andries Coetzee) of the 2013 Summer Institute in Linguistics.  She served as the co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics from 2006-2012.speech communities in Detroit; Bai (China) language change and ideology and an exemplar theoretic account of sociolinguistic perception.  Her students have been successful on the academic job market, with placements in tenure-track and research scientist positions both within and outside of the United States.

Thursday, May 5
Martin Krieger – University of Southern California
Real Cities
Martin H. Krieger is professor of planning at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is trained as a physicist, and has taught in urban planning and policy at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, Michigan, and USC. His nine books are about mathematical modeling, environmental policy, and about theories of planning and design. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Friday, May 6
Jay Zagorsky – Ohio State University
Are Blondes Less Intelligent?
Since 1995 I have held the position of Research Scientist at The Ohio State University, where I collect data as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys on income, wealth, and life experiences of thousands of Americans. My personal finance research has been widely quoted in the media and has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Good Morning America, Scientific American and numerous other news outlets.

Besides publishing numerous scholarly articles I wrote the book “Business Information: Finding and Using Data in the Digital Age” for McGraw-Hill/Irwin and “Business Macroeconomics: A Guide for Managers, Traders and Practical People.” More information on the macroeconomics book can be found at http://businessmacroeconomics.com/.

I also teach at Boston University‘s School of Management. From 1988 to the present my teaching has spanned a wide range of levels from senior executives taking intensive classes to high school students encountering economic theories for the first time. I have taught giant lectures of over 450 students, classes of fifty, and small seminars with fewer than ten people.