Tag: Columbia University
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The Academic Minute for 2023.02.20-2023.02.24
The Academic Minute from 2.20 – 2.24 Monday Pankhuri Malhotra – University of Oklahoma Finding Brand Alliances Among Seemingly Unlikely Partners Dr. Pankhuri is a computational social scientist with an interest in graph-based methods for improving and scaling marketing research. Her current research applies combined methods from marketing, network and data science for mining user…
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Keith Diaz, Columbia University – How to Counteract the Health Harms of Sitting
Get up and move – it’s good for you. Keith Diaz, Florence Irving associate professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, explores the health harms of sitting. Keith Diaz is a certified exercise physiologist and an Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. His research focuses on elucidating the role…
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Mariusz Kozak, Columbia University – Music as a Structure of our Movements and Emotions
Music could be one way to heal after the pandemic. Mariusz Kozak, associate professor of music at Columbia University, discusses why it brings us together. Mariusz Kozak is an Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University, and the author of Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. His research focuses on the relationship…
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Timothy Frye, Columbia University – Weak Strongmen
Being a dictator can seem simple, but is it? Timothy Frye, professor of post-soviet foreign policy at Columbia University, examines what pitfalls a despot may encounter to stay in power. Timothy Frye received a B.A. from Middlebury College in Russian language and literature, an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in…
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Edna Chun, Columbia University – Systemic Racism
Systemic racism hasn’t always been in the news. Edna Chun, lecturer at Columbia University, explores this topic through a higher education lens. Dr. Edna B. Chun is an award-winning author and educational thought leader with more than two decades of strategic human resource and diversity leadership experience in public higher education. Dr. Chun has co-authored…
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Kyle Meng, Columbia University – Climate and Conflicts – 10-Year Anniversary
We’re celebrating a decade of the Academic Minute this week with one segment from each year. This segment from 2011, Kyle Meng, PhD candidate at Columbia University, told us why El Nino was responsible for civil wars around the globe. Current Bio: Kyle Meng is an Assistant Professor at the Bren School and the Department…
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Larisa Heiphetz, Columbia University – How Children and Adults Think About Religion
Do children and adults think of religion in the same way? Larisa Heiphetz, assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, looks into this question. Larisa Heiphetz is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on how children and adults think about their social worlds, with one line of…
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Franziska Landes, Columbia University – Lead in Soil
On this Student Spotlight: Kids love playing in the dirt, but can it be harmful? Franziska Landes, graduate student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, warns danger can be just below their feet. Franziska Landes is a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Earth and Environmental Science program at Columbia University. She is…
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Vincent Schiraldi, Columbia University – Growing Parolee Population
We know prison populations are increasing; how about the parolee population? Vincent Schiraldi, senior research scientist at Columbia University, says the prison population is only half the story. Vincent Schiraldi has extensive experience in public life, founding the policy think tank, the Justice Policy Institute, then moving to government as director of the juvenile corrections…
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Ethan Coffel, Columbia University – Aviation and Climate Change
On this Student Spotlight: Will climate change affect aviation’s future? Ethan Coffel, fifth-year PhD student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, determines whether a warmer planet means fewer chances to fly. I’m a fifth-year PhD student at Columbia studying atmospheric science and climate change impacts in the Earth & Environmental Sciences department and…