Category: Academic Minute
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.06.09)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.06.09 Monday Will Berelson, Paxson Offield professor of Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California Dornsife, looks at reducing emissions in urban areas. Tuesday Shun Ye, associate professor of information systems and operations management at George Mason University, whether AI is…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.06.02-2025.06.06
Monday Elahe Solanaghai – University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Sensing Beneath the Forest Canopy: A New Tool for Wildfire Prevention Elahe Soltanaghai is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research spans the areas of wireless networking and sensing with applications in IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Mixed Reality. Previously, she was a…
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Christopher Baldassano, Columbia University – The Brain Organizes Narratives Into Meaningful Event Memories
How we experience an event may change how we remember it. Christopher Baldassano, associate professor of psychology at Columbia University, looks into our past experiences for clues. Christopher Baldassano is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Columbia University. He was an undergraduate in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, received his PhD in Computer…
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Lee Haines, University of Notre Dame – Do Mosquitoes Harbor Viruses Without Falling Ill?
Why can mosquitoes harbor viruses without being affected while others cannot? Lee Haines, associate research professor in Medical Entomology at the University of Notre Dame, explores this. Lee Haines is a researcher with a PhD in Tropical Medicine and an MSc in Parasite Biochemistry and Microbiology, who specializes in diseases transmitted by arthropods. Her work…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.06.02)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.06.02 Monday Elahe Soltanaghai, assistant professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aims to deliver a new tool of aid in wildfire prevention. Tuesday Lee Haines, associate research professor in Medical Entomology at the University of Notre Dame, explores how…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.05.26-2025.05.30
Monday Jacob Sawyer – Alma College Examining Myths About Grief and Bereavement Jacob Sawyer is a counseling psychologist interested in factors related to mental health and well-being. His background and training as a clinician strongly inform his approach to his work as a faculty member. His career at Alma began in 2022. Tuesday Jovan Kamcev…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.05.26)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.05.26 Monday Jacob Sawyer, assistant professor of psychology at Alma College, discusses the myths around grief and bereavement. Tuesday Jovan Kamcev, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, determines the best process for desalination. Wednesday Susanna Calkins, director of the Nexus for Faculty…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.05.19-2025.05.23
Monday Katherine Perry – Soka University of America The Mathematics of Hiding in Plain Sight Katherine Perry is a mathematician specializing in graph theory, design theory, and combinatorics. She is especially interested in breaking apart graphs into smaller subgraphs with special properties. She has a BA in mathematics from Scripps College and received both her…
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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…