The Academic Minute for 2024.07.22-2024.07.26

The Academic Minute from 7.22 – 7.26

Monday
Loren Henderson – University of Maryland Baltimore County
Centering the Voices of Black Farmers
Henderson’s research interests include diversity issues, stratification and inequality, health disparities, race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is the current executive officer of the Association of Black Sociologists (2021-Present). Listen to Dr. Henderson talk about her research on the experience of Black farmers during COVID-19 on the Minority Land Owner Magazine podcast. Read about her work with Black mothers in Chicago in The Conversation. “Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.,” (2023),  “I’m a Black sociologist, and a mom – by listening to other Black mothers, I’ve learned about their pandemic struggles and strengths” (2022).

Tuesday
Sarah Raskin – Trinity College
Brain Injuries Aren’t Just Happening in Sports
Sarah A. Raskin, Ph.D. is a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.  She received her BA in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University and her PhD in Neuropsychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center.  She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 22 Rehabilitation and 40 Neuropsychology) and of the National Academy of Neuropsychology.  She has published numerous articles investigating neuropsychological functions and cognitive rehabilitation for a variety of disorders, including brain injury.    She co-authored the Memory for Intentions Test (MIST) published by Psychological Assessment Resources.  She is co-author with Catherine Mateer of Neuropsychological Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, published by Oxford University Press (2000) and is the editor of Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation, published by Guilford Press (2011) and Prospective Memory in Clinical Populations, published by Taylor and Francis (2020).

Wednesday
Jared Bahir Browsh – University of Colorado, Boulder
Vulnerabilities Emerge Six Years After Sports Gambling Legalization
Dr. Jared Bahir Browsh is scholar and educator specializing in the political economics of sports and the media and the relationship between money, policy, and representation of identity in popular culture.

Thursday
Sabrina Little – Christopher Newport University
Character and Athletic Performance
Sabrina Little is an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership and American Studies at Christopher Newport University. She earned her doctorate in Philosophy from Baylor University. Sabrina’s research is in character education, virtue theory, and moral psychology. Her recent book, The Examined Run (Oxford University Press 2024), explores how to use running as a laboratory for virtue formation.

Friday
Angel Aguilar Valles – Carleton University
Can Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelics Be Used to Treat Depression
Dr. Argel Aguilar Valles received his B.Sc. (Biology) and M.Sc. (Biochemistry) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Then, he obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at McGill University in 2011. Following this, he completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the Scripps Research Institute (Florida Campus) in 2012 and at McGill University in 2018. He joined Carleton University in 2019 as an Assistant Professor. The Aguilar-Valles Lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms that underlie psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. They use a combination of biochemistry, molecular biology, neuronal culture, and animal models to understand the molecular mechanisms of mental illness and their potential treatments.