The Academic Minute for 2016.10.3-10.7

Academic Minute from 10.3 – 10.7

Monday, October 3rd
Kevin Hatala – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Footprints of Homo Erectus
Kevin Hatala is a paleoanthropologist whose research interests are centered on the evolution of hominin anatomy and locomotion, including how they were influenced by changes in ecology and behavior throughout human evolutionary history. Much of his research to date has focused on fossil hominin footprints, and the unique information that they can tell us about human evolution.

Kevin is a National Science Foundation (USA) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow. He is carrying out his postdoctoral research at the MPI-EVA but also through The George Washington University. His postdoctoral research is aimed at developing new methods that can be used to extract anatomical and functional data from footprints in the human fossil record. His approach combines ongoing paleontological excavations of fossil hominin footprint sites in Kenya with laboratory experimental projects aimed at modeling the ways in which locomotion is recorded in footprints. His work also includes developing quantitative methods for analyzing and interpreting the data preserved at these fossil hominin footprint sites. For this research, Kevin collaborates with colleagues from the American Museum of Natural History, The George Washington University, Brown University, and the MPI-EVA.

Tuesday, October 4th
Alistair Evans – Monash University
Predicting Human Evolution through our Teeth
Dr. Evans is an evolutionary biologist who studies the teeth of mammals. This includes how they break food, how they develop in the embryo, and how they evolve over millions of years. He completed his PhD in zoology at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and has worked in museums around the world on fossil and modern mammals.

Wednesday, October 5th
Anthony Vance – Brigham Young University
Security Warnings
Anthony Vance is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University. He has earned Ph.D. degrees in Information Systems from Georgia State University, USA; the University of Paris—Dauphine, France; and the University of Oulu, Finland. He received a B.S. in IS and Masters of Information Systems Management (MISM) from Brigham Young University, during which he was also enrolled in the IS Ph.D. preparation program. He currently is an associate editor at MIS Quarterly and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

His previous experience includes working as a visiting research professor in the Information Systems Security Research Center at the University of Oulu. He also worked as an information security consultant and fraud analyst for Deloitte. His work is published in outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His research focuses on behavioral and neuroscience applications to information security.

Thursday, October 6th
Craig Triplett – Black Hills State University
Past Athletic Experience and Health
Craig Triplett, DPT, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science, School of Behavioral Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD. Triplett obtained his B.S. in Wellness Management from Black Hills State University. He earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) from the University of South Dakota. Triplett’s current research interests are focused on the assessment of mobility and stability of undergraduate students though the Functional Movement Screen. He teaches Exercise Science programming for Special Populations, Fitness Assessment, and Exercise Leadership. Craig is also the Exercise Science internship coordinator. In addition to teaching, Craig is a practicing physical therapist and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS).

Friday, October 7th
Robert Edgell – SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Innovation and Language
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.