Category: This Week
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The Academic Minute for 2025.12.08-2025.12.12
Monday Andrew Edelblum – University of Dayton Does Sex Sell? Not Always Andrew Edelblum is a University of Dayton assistant professor of management and marketing whose work explores identity, ethics, branding and consumer culture. A member of the American Marketing Association and the Association for Consumer Research, he teaches or has taught courses in buyer…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.12.08)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.12.08 Monday Andrew Edelblum, assistant professor of marketing at the University of Dayton, explores when beauty backfires. Tuesday Erik Lie, Amelia Tippie Chair and professor in finance at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, explores one way to catch financial cheats. Wednesday…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.12.01-2025.12.05
Monday Ashish Agarwal – University of Texas at Austin Driving Assistance Systems Can Lead to More Hazardous Driving Ashish Agarwal is a professor of information, risk, and operations management at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He teaches courses on the introduction to information technology honors, digital technologies, and business innovations,…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.12.01)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.12.01 Monday Ashish Agarwal, professor in the IROM Department of Management in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, gets behind the wheel to find out if driving assistance systems lead to safer driving. Tuesday Ann Perreau, professor and co-chair of communication…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.11.24-2025.11.28
Monday Kun-Hsing Yu – Harvard Medical School AI Distinguishes Glioblastoma from Look-Like Cancers Kun-Hsing “Kun” Yu, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He pioneered the first fully automated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of extracting thousands of features from whole-slide pathology images. His research has…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.11.24)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.11.24 Monday Kun-Hsing Yu, associate professor in the department of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, says AI can detect glioblastoma from look-alike cancers. Tuesday Nabil Alshurafa, associate professor of preventive medicine and computer science at Northwestern University, determines what wearable sensors can achieve in the fight…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.11.17-2025.11.21
Monday Imran Mirza – Miami University Realistic Quantum Optical Models Dr. Imran Mirza is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Miami University of Ohio. Before his appointment at Miami, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.11.17)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.11.17 Monday Imran Mirza, associate professor of physics at Miami University, explores the future of computer science through quantum computing. Tuesday Alexis Redding, faculty co-chair of Higher Education and Lecturer on education at Harvard University, examines the W-curve of college life. Wednesday Mohamad Junaid, associate professor…
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The Academic Minute for 2025.11.10-2025.11.14
Monday Manasvi Lingam – Florida Institute of Technology The Benefits of Using A Different Type of Propulsion to Explore Our Solar System Manasvi Lingam, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of astrobiology at Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) in Melbourne, Florida. After completing his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Dr. Lingam…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.11.10)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.11.10 Monday Manasvi Lingam, assistant professor of astrobiology at the Florida Institute of Technology, examines a better way to explore space without using rockets for propulsion. Tuesday Jayna Moceri-Brooks, clinical assistant professor at the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at New York University, explores whether getting a Purple…