The Academic Minute for 2021.01.11-2021.01.15

The Academic Minute from 01.11 – 01.15

Monday, January 11th
Elizabeth Brown – Bentley University
Monitoring Employee’s Health Data
Liz Brown is an Associate Professor of Business Law at Bentley University. She earned her B.A. from Harvard College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She represented Fortune 100 companies as a litigator for 13 years before joining the Bentley faculty. As a former partner in an international law firm specializing in intellectual property, Professor Brown’s extensive experience with practical applications of law in business, especially with regard to emerging technologies, informs her teaching and award-winning research.

Tuesday, January 12th
Fred Ledley – Bentley University
Pharmaceutical Companies Profitability
Fred Ledley is Director of the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University and professor of Natural & Applied Sciences and Management. He has an MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, a BS in physical science from the University of Maryland (College Park), trained in pediatrics and genetics at the Boston Children’s Hospital, and was an American Cancer Society post-doctoral fellow with Dr. David Baltimore at MIT. He has served on the faculties of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, and Texas Children’s Hospital and has been a founder and senior executive of several biotechnology companies developing gene therapy and personalized medicine.

Wednesday, January 13th
Mateo Cruz – Bentley University
Response to Systemic Stereotype Threat
Dr. Mateo Cruz (Ph.D., Social-Organizational Psychology, Columbia University) is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bentley University. His primary research focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in workplace contexts using an intersectional lens. His most recent projects examine the different ways women and people of color contend with systemic stereotype threat in occupations where they face chronic underrepresentation.

Thursday, January 14th
Laurel Steinfield – Bentley University
Multinational Corporations and Women’s Economic Empowerment
Laurel Steinfield (DPhil, University of Oxford) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bentley University. Her research focuses on social stratifications, including gender, racial, and global North-South hierarchies. As a sociologist, transformative consumer researcher and marketing professor, she studies how these stratifications interact with marketplace dynamics and how resulting injustices may be transformed.

Friday, January 15th
Betsy Stoner – Bentley University
Microplastics
Elizabeth Stoner is an Assistant Professor in the Natural and Applied Sciences Department at Bentley University. Elizabeth earned her Ph.D. in biological sciences from Florida International University in 2014, and her B.A. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in biology from Skidmore College in 2008. Dr. Stoner is a marine ecologist, with a research program focused on understanding the role that benthic organisms play in coastal marine ecosystems, and how human activities influence these interactions. Her lab has been studying microplastics from nearshore marine biota for the last three years.