The Academic Minute for 2016.08.01-08.05

Academic Minute from 8.1 – 8.5

Monday, August 1st
Adrianne John Galang – De La Salle University
Of Creativity and Psychopaths
I have taught at the leading university in the Philippines (the University of the Philippines) and at De La Salle University (DLSU), the most productive private research university. I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in personality and social psychology, experimental psychology, and have helped develop the curriculum for the teaching of psychological measurement in DLSU.

My current program of research is on the psychophysiology of affect and decision-making and how these relate to individual differences in higher order cognitive processes. I am working towards extending my exploration into how such affect and cognition interactions develop into tendencies towards risk-taking, analogical and abductive thinking, and creativity. I hope to be able to make an impact in the field of personality psychology and the neuroscience of creativity by substantiating the “prosocial psychopath” model I proposed in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews in 2010.

Tuesday, August 2nd
Robert Edgell – SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Seeing 3D
Dr. Robert Edgell is an Assistant Professor of Technology Management at SUNY Polytechnic Institute and a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Business School in Zurich. Previously, he was a professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business and has taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business.

His current scholarly research focuses on a range of interdisciplinary topics including media as a lever for corporate governance, responsible innovation and harm (in collaboration with colleagues from Stanford University Law School), top management team creativity processes, and entrepreneurial social impact.

Dr. Edgell received his Ph.D. in international multicultural management (magna cum laude) from the University of St. Gallen (AACSB accredited). He holds an MBA fromColumbia University Business School in the City of New York and a Bachelor of Architecture (5 year degree, cum laude) from Kent State University. Through Columbia’s Chazen Institute of International Business, he studied at the Rotterdam School of Management in The Netherlands. He is a registered architect and has studied at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Wednesday, August 3rd
Barbara Looney – Black Hills State University
Re-Learning Conversation Skills
Barbara Looney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Management, School of Business, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD. Looney teaches Managerial Communications, a persuasive business writing course, for the School of Business, and Humanities, a survey of human expression, for the School of Liberal Arts. Additionally she co-advises the entrepreneurial-focused Enactus Team. Prior to her academic career, Looney was a Customer Service Representative for the Sheraton Hotel Corporation in Boston, a Congressional staff assistant in Washington, D.C., a corporate paralegal for law firms in Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, NC, and the assistant manager of a bar supply company in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Thursday, August 4th
Laura Albright – University of Indianapolis
Lurleen Wallace and Women in Politics
Laura Albright is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis: http://www.uindy.edu/cas/history-political-science/faculty Her teaching, research and writing focus on gender and race politics, political campaigns and voters, and women both as candidates and among the electorate. Albright earned her PhD in political science and her MA in women’s studies from the University of Alabama.

Her current research focuses on the life and political career of Alabama’s first and only woman governor, Lurleen Wallace, wife of that state’s controversial former governor, George Wallace, and the only female governor of a U.S. state to have died in office. Professor Albright’s education includes:

– AB in Theatre from the Honors Tutorial College at the Ohio University

– MA in Political Science from the Ohio University

– MPA in Campaign Management from the University of Alabama

– MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama

– PhD in Political Science from the University of Alabama

Friday, August 5th
Jan Zalasiewicz – University of Leicester
A New Age
Jan Zalasiewicz is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, UK. In early career he was a field geologist and palaeontologist at the British Geological Survey, working to decipher the strata of eastern England and then the mountains of central Wales.  Now, he teaches geology and Earth history to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and studies fossil ecosystems and environments across over half a billion years of geological time.  Over the last few years he has been involved in helping develop ideas on the Anthropocene, the concept that humans now drive much geology on the surface of Earth, and chairs the Anthropocene Working Group of the Intrnational Commission on Stratigraphy. His writing includes the books The Earth After Us (2008), The Planet in a Pebble (2010), The Goldilocks Planet (2012) and Ocean Worlds (2014).