The Academic Minute from 1.27 – 1.31
Monday
Ivy Bourgeault – University of Ottawa
The Mental Well-Being of Professional Workers
Dr. Ivy Bourgeault is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions. She has garnered an international reputation for her research on the health workforce, particularly from a gender lens, with a recent focus on the psychological health and safety of professional work.
Tuesday
Sabari Rajan Karmegam – George Mason University
The Streisand Effect of Book Bans
Sabari Rajan Karmegam is an assistant professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at George Mason University’s Costello College of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland. Before academia, Dr. Karmegam spent over a decade managing large-scale IT programs. His research focuses on Digital Strategy and Online Platforms, with work published in Information Systems Research (ISR). He teaches courses in data mining, business analytics, and database management.
Wednesday
Dennis Wilson Wise – University of Arizona
Discovering the Modern Alliterative Revival
Dennis Wilson Wise is a professor of practice at the University of Arizona, and he has published dozens of research articles on fantasy, science fiction, and modern alliterative verse. His first book was Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2024). Wise’s public writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Conversation, and elsewhere.
Thursday
Josh Lens – University of Iowa
NIL Participation Provides College Athletes with Additional Protections
A former attorney and college athletics administrator, Lens’s scholarship focuses on legal issues in sports, particularly within college athletics. Media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, the Associated Press, and The Paul Finebaum Show have discussed or interviewed Lens about his scholarship. For a more thorough examination of the present issue, a draft of Lens’s forthcoming SMU Law Review article about it can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4846121. Lens’s other scholarship can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3003484.
Friday
Yu Chen – Binghamton University
Exposing A.I. – Using Tools to Detect Fake Media
Yu Chen is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Binghamton University – State University of New York (SUNY). He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006. Leading the Intelligent and Sustainable Edge Computing (I-SEC) Lab, his research focuses on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computer Networks, including Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in smart and connected environments.
Dr. Chen’s publications include over 300 papers in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. His research has been funded by NSF, DoD, AFOSR, AFRL, New York State, and industrial partners. He has been a reviewer for NSF panels, the DoE Independent Review Panel, international journals, and on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of prestigious conferences. He is a Fellow of SPIE, a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, and a member of SIGMA XI and AFCEA.
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