Category: Academic Minute
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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…
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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…