This Week on The Academic Minute 2026.02.09
Monday
Tomas R. Guilarte, Dean of the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work and professor of cognitive neuroscience and imaging at Florida International University, looks into detecting Alzheimer’s decades before symptoms start.
Tuesday
Robert Krencik, associate professor in the department of neurosurgery and center for neuroregeneration at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, thinks small to help the brain repair itself after injury.
Wednesday
Pablo Moyano Fernandez, associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, examines concrete as the future of affordable housing.
Thursday
Tara McAllister, associate professor of communicative sciences and disorders at New York University, studies how technology can help children in speech therapy.
Friday
Akihisa Terakita, professor in the Graduate School of Science at Osaka Metropolitan University, dives in to find out how eyeless corals see the light.
