Category: Academic Minute
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.05.19)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.05.19 Monday Katherine Perry, assistant professor of mathematics at Soka University of America, explores if mathematics can hide in plain sight. Tuesday Niels Mede, science communication researcher at the University of Zurich, asks if there is a crisis of trust in science. Wednesday Patrick Barry, clinical…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.05.12-2025.05.16
Monday Reena Aggarwal – Georgetown University Public Sentiment and Investing Professor Aggarwal is a globally renowned expert in the field of finance. She specializes in financial markets and regulation, market microstructure, capital raising, IPOs, ETFs, short term funding markets, corporate governance, institutional investors, and digital assets. She has had tremendous impact at the intersection of…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.05.12)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.05.12 Monday Reena Aggarwal, Robert E. McDonough professor of finance and director at the McDonough’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University, examines how there’s more information than ever for investors, and the ways the public uses it. Tuesday Amanda March, assistant professor of…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.05.05-2025.05.09
Monday Ryan Allen – Soka University of America Beyond the Numbers of Dead and Dying Colleges Ryan M. Allen is the Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education and Leadership in the Educational Leadership and Societal Change Program at Soka University of America. His research centers on internationalization of higher education, EdTech, intersections between education and…
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Marie Nydam, Soka University of America – Tracking Introduced Species on Coral Reefs
On Soka University of America Week: Introduced species can be a threat to coral reefs. Marie Nydam, associate professor of biology, dives down to take a look. Marie Nydam has a BS in Evolution and Ecology from the University of California, Davis. She earned a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University and worked as…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.05.05)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.05.05 Monday Ryan Allen, associate professor of comparative and international education and leadership, takes a journey to look beyond the numbers of dead and dying colleges. Tuesday Deike Peters, associate professor of environmental planning and practice, discusses whether we can reimagine our urban spaces to more align…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.04.28-2025.05.02
Monday Dongqing Wang – George Mason University Preterm Birth and Nutritional Supplements Dongqing Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. Wang’s research focuses on the nutritional determinants of maternal, child, and adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries. A primary domain of Wang’s research is the distributions, determinants, and…
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Qi Luo, University of Iowa – Designating Rural Highway Lanes For Semi-Automated Trucks
How do we make the trucking industry more efficient? Qi Luo, assistant professor in the department of business analytics at the University of Iowa, examines one possible solution. Qi Luo’s research focuses on data-driven decision-making in operations management and emerging mobility systems. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the TRB Kikuchi-Karlaftis…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.04.28)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.04.28 Monday Dongqing Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason University’s College of Public Health, examines one solution to lowering the amount of preterm births. Tuesday Bradley Cannon, assistant professor of finance within the School of Management at Binghamton University,…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.04.21-2025.04.25
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.,…