The Academic Minute from 10.28 – 11.01
Monday
Klint Kanopka – New York University
Social-Emotional Skills in Education
Klint Kanopka is an applied statistician who uses computational models to solve problems in educational and psychological measurement. His recent work includes the development of a mixture item response model that accounts for effects caused by variation in item position, innovations in model comparison methods for polytomous item response models, and the use of flexible machine learning models to combine behavioral data and item response data.
Tuesday
Daphna Harel – New York University
Depression Assessments Reliable Across Technology, Setting, and Type
Daphna Harel is an Associate Professor of Applied Statistics at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. She is an applied statistician who studies issues of measurement and modeling in the applied health sciences. Her research focuses on modeling challenges for data arising from self-reported questionnaires and other surveys. Her recent methodological work investigates shortening and scoring methods for patient reported outcome measures.
Wednesday
Kelly Daly – New York University
Overcoming Dental Fear
Kelly Daly, PhD, is an assistant research scientist at the Family Translational Research Group at NYU College of Dentistry and the project director for Dental FearLess. Dr. Daly is a child clinical psychologist with a research and clinical specialization in the neural and socioemotional impacts of trauma exposure across the lifespan, and risk and resilience factors implicated in the intergenerational transmission of family violence.
Thursday
Vito Adriaensens – New York University
Haxan and Witchcraft Through the Ages
Vito Adriaensens is a Belgian filmmaker and scholar, and an Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
As a researcher, Vito works on the intersections of film, visual arts, and performance, with an emphasis on early cinema. He is a co-author of Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema (2017) and the author of Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema (2023). Vito is currently also finishing a book on Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 silent film Häxan (or Witchcraft through the Ages) for the British Film Institute; editing the scholarly volume The Tableau Vivant: From Living Pictures to Moving Images for Edinburgh University Press; and writing From New Stagecraft to New Cinema: Silent Film Performs the Avant-Garde for Amsterdam University Press.
Friday
Jonathan Purtle – New York University
Implementing the 988 Lifeline
Dr. Purtle’s research focuses on mental health policy. His work examines questions such as how research evidence about mental health issues and treatments can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used in policymaking processes, how social and political contexts affect policymaking and policy implementation, and how the implementation of policies “on the books” can be improved in practice. He is leading a five-year study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health on the implementation of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
