Tag: UC Davis

  • The Academic Minute for 2025.04.07-2025.04.11

    The Academic Minute for 2025.04.07-2025.04.11

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    The Academic Minute from 4.7 – 4.11 Monday Rafaela Fontes – Virginia Tech University Persistence with Abstinence from Substance Use Rafaela Fontes is a research scientist in the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. Her work focuses on decision-making processes in individuals with substance use disorders (SUD), using models of choice…

  • Tali Caspi, University of California, Davis – How Cities Shape What Animals Eat

    Tali Caspi, University of California, Davis – How Cities Shape What Animals Eat

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    What do animals eat when they live in urban spaces? Tali Caspi, urban ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, takes off the lid. Tali’s work on urban wildlife focuses on emerging patterns and underlying mechanisms of individual variation across the urban landscape to better understand the factors that allow animals to…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.04.07)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.04.07)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.04.07   Monday Rafaela Fontes, research scientist at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech University, takes a look at how long it takes for successful abstinence from substance use.   Tuesday Praveen Arany, associate professor of oral biology and biomedical engineering and surgery at the University at…

  • The Academic Minute for 2022.11.28-2022.12.02

    The Academic Minute for 2022.11.28-2022.12.02

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      The Academic Minute from 11.28 – 12.02 Monday, November 28th Jun Wu – University of California, Irvine Examining Effects of Environment on Preterm Birth Jun Wu, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UCI Program in Public Health. Dr. Wu’s interests focus on population-based research of environmental exposure assessment, environmental…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.11.28)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2022.11.28)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2022.11.28   Monday, November 28th Jun Wu, professor of environment and occupational health at the University of California, Irvine program in public health, says your environment can play a role in when nurturing begins.   Tuesday, November 29th Hala Altamimi, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs and…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.03.04-03.08

    The Academic Minute for 2019.03.04-03.08

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    The Academic Minute from 03.04 – 03.08 Monday, March 4th Steven Pressman – Colorado State University Infrastructure Spending Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, Colorado and Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In addition, he serves as North American…

  • Seth Frey, University of California Davis – Poker

    Seth Frey, University of California Davis – Poker

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    What can poker experts tell us? Seth Frey, assistant professor of communication at the University of California Davis, looks into how winning poker players use two sources of information where most only see one. I am an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, Davis, in the Computational Communication lab.  Before a fellowship…

  • This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.04)

    This Week on The Academic Minute (2019.03.04)

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    This Week on The Academic Minute 2019.03.04 Monday, March 4th Steven Pressman of Colorado State University examines if infrastructure spending will be a priority for Congress. Tuesday, March 5th Wesley Wildman of Boston University discusses using computer simulations to study religion. Wednesday, March 6th Robert Brown of the United States Air Force Academy delves into…

  • The Academic Minute for 2019.02.18-02.22

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    Academic Minute from 02.18 – 02.22 Monday, February 18th Alicia Simmons – Colgate University Politicians and Dissent I’m a social psychologist focused on the intersections of media, race, and politics. I study how the American news media shapes audience members’ racial attitudes and public policy preferences, and how public opinion ultimately shapes the direction of…

  • David Olson, University of California Davis – Psychedelics as Treatment for Depression

    David Olson, University of California Davis – Psychedelics as Treatment for Depression

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    LSD could be your future treatment for depression. David E. Olson, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine at the University of California, Davis, explores how psychedelic compounds could treat disorders of the mind. David studied chemistry and biology at Union College under the guidance of Joanne…