The Academic Minute from 3.10 – 3.14
Monday
Marcia Bjornerud – Lawrence University
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. She is the author of several books for popular audiences: Reading the Rocks, Timefulness, Geopedia and the recently published Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks.
Tuesday
Cara Furman – Hunter College
Ethical Decision Making as a Teacher: Practical Wisdom
Cara Furman is a former New York City progressive public elementary school teacher and Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Hunter College. She is author of Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction, co-author of Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice: Cultivating Practical Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools, and co-editor of Teachers and Philosophy: Essays on the Contact Zone. She hoststhe podcast Teaching from an Ethical Center: An Inquiry Among Friends and co-hosts Thinking in the Midst. She writes about teacher-decision making, ethics, Descriptive Inquiry, inquiry, asset-based inclusive teaching, and progressive literacy practices. She has a doctorate in philosophy and education and a masters in Inclusive Elementary Education from Teachers College, Columbia.
Wednesday
Danica Knight – Texas Christian University
Hope Connection 2.0
Danica Kalling Knight, Ph.D. serves as Professor of Psychology and Rees-Jones Director of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development (KPICD) at Texas Christian University (TCU). As director, her primary responsibility is to ensure that Karyn’s dream of “bringing hope and healing to children around the world” is realized through the institute’s mission of research, education, and outreach efforts. Her current efforts focus on the dissemination and implementation of Trust-based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), a whole-child, attachment-based, trauma-informed, and sensory-rich approach to addressing the needs of children who’ve experienced trauma. TBRI’s applicability and effectiveness within and across systems of care, including juvenile justice, child welfare, courts, schools, etc., provides rich opportunities to transform communities and affect outcomes for children and families around the world.
Thursday
Richard Addante – Florida International University
Discovery of a New Kind of Human Memory Process
Dr. Richard J. Addante, associate professor of psychology at Florida Institute of Technology, is a 3-time winner of an LRP Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and an LRP Fellow from the National Institute of Health. His research has focused on human memory, brain states, and metacognition, resulting in discoveries such as a new kind of human memory, the first neural correlates of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and the first proof that implicit memory depends upon the human hippocampus. Addante earned a BA in Psychology from The College of New Jersey and a PhD in Neuroscience at UC Davis as a Diversity Fellow of the American Psychological Association, then completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Neuroimaging with University of Texas at Dallas with UT-Southwestern Medical School.
Friday
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Best Ways to Quit Vaping
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is an Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research mainly consists of applied evidence synthesis for health policy, including in the areas of tobacco control, electronic cigarettes, diet, physical activity, and management of long-term conditions. She works closely with Cochrane and leads a number of research programs focusing on smoking cessation and electronic cigarettes. She is passionate about communicating complex information and data to inform policy and public action.
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