Catch up with The Academic Minute from 7.27- 7.31
Monday, July 27
Diane Peters – Kettering University
Self-Driving Cars
Dr. Diane Peters is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering. She has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, with expertise in combined design and control of mechatronic systems. Dr. Peters joined Kettering in 2013. She was attracted to Kettering in particular because of the school’s strong connections with industry and the students’ enthusiasm and drive. She thinks that Kettering students are talented, mature, and a lot of fun to be around. She enjoys teaching them and advising the students in both A and B sections of the Society of Women Engineers.
Tuesday, July 28
Aron Stubbins – University of Georgia
Permafrost Melt-Water Experiments
Aron Stubbins studied Marine Biology at the University of Newcastle receiving a BSc (Hons) in 1998. Aron remained at the University of Newcastle studying carbon cycling in rivers, estuaries and the oceans, earning a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry in 2002. After postdoctorate positions at Edinburgh University and Old Dominion University, Aron moved to the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia in 2010, where he is now an Associate Professor and Assistant Editor of the journal Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science. His research interests center upon the aquatic carbon cycle, across glaciers, in trees, through rivers and in the open ocean. A particular focus of Aron’s work is to assess the response of the natural carbon cycle to climate change.
Wednesday, July 29
Jeffrey Hall – University of Kansas
Flirtatious Miscommunication
Jeffrey Hall is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of “The Five Flirting Styles: Use the Science of Flirting to Attract the Love You Really Want.”
Thursday, July 30
Megan Gilligan – Iowa State Univsity
Maternal Estrangement
Megan Gilligan is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and a faculty associate of the Gerontology Program at Iowa State University. Her research focuses on the effects of life course transitions on family relationships and well-being, with specific interest in parent-child and sibling relationships in the middle and later years. In particular, Dr. Gilligan is interested in the predictors and consequences of intergenerational relationship quality. Dr. Gilligan’s research has appeared in the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Journal of Marriage and Family and Research in Human Development.
Friday, July 31
Neel Smith – College of the Holy Cross
Digital Research
Neel Smith is an associate professor of classics at the College of the Holy Cross where he teaches a wide range of courses in ancient languages, archaeology and ancient science. For more than 25 years, he has explored the implications of new information technologies for humanists, including work on the Perseus Project, and for the past ten years as a co-architect of the Homer Multitext project. As faculty advisor to the Holy Cross Manuscripts, Inscriptions and Documents Club since its foundation in 2012, he has been a frequent co-author with undergraduate colleagues on topics growing out of the club’s research.
