The Academic Minute from 4.21 – 4.25
Monday
John Daily – University of Colorado
Wildfires Need Science
Dr. Daily is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (B.S. 1968, M.S. 1969) and at Stanford University (Ph.D. 1975.) After receiving the Ph.D., he was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley until 1988, when he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. While at Colorado he served as a department chair and as Director of the Center for Combustion and Environmental Research. He also served as the Program Director for Combustion and Fire Systems at the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and The Combustion Institute.
Tuesday
Eleanor Schille-Hudson – Stanford University
The Problem-Solving Power of Prayer
A cognitive scientist by training, she studies how people rely on their priors, habituated behaviors, social networks, and cultural context to make sense of the world around them, seen and unseen.
Wednesday
Alison Gernand – Penn State University
Vitamin D Matters During First Trimester of Pregnancy
Alison Gernand is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State University. The focus of her research is the impact of maternal micronutrient status on adverse pregnancy outcomes. She received a master’s degree in public health from the University of Texas School of Public Health and a PhD in human nutrition and international health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a Registered Dietitian with extensive experience in public health nutrition. She is a member of the Center for Reproductive Biology and Health and the Center for Women’s Health Research at Penn State.
Thursday
Art Jipson – University of Dayton
Understanding Extremism
Arthur “Art” Jipson is an associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Dayton, where he has taught since 2001. From 2005 to 2016, Jipson was director of UD’s criminal justice studies program. His work has been published in The Conversation, the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, the Journal of the Institute of Justice & International Studies, Research in Political Sociology, The American Sociologist, The Justice Professional, American Journal of Criminal Justice, The International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, and Popular Music and Society. He edited a special issue of Sociological Focus with UD colleague Paul Becker on research on white racial extremism, online extremism, white nationalism and hate crime. His primary research has focused on extremism, radicalization, nationalism, social deviance, Internet culture, and efforts to prevent radicalization through pathways that create a healthy inclusive community. His secondary research has explored roadside memorials and legal regulation of memorials and the popular music industry, popular culture and youth in American society.
Friday
Flora Sun – Binghamton University
News Media Conglomeration and Financial Markets
Dr. Sun’s research interests include disclosure and information production in capital markets, focusing on the determinants of media coverage and its impact on capital markets. Sun is
also interested in studying how investors use financial information from other information intermediaries, such as sell-side equity analysts and credit-rating agencies.
The study, “Common Media Holding Companies and the Uniqueness of Business Press Content,” was published in The Accounting Review, an American Accounting Association journal. Sun co-authored the paper along with faculty researchers from Indiana University, Harvard Business School and Texas A&M University.
Dr. Sun has a Bachelor of Business Administration, from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Austin, Texas and a PhD from Indiana University.
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