Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan Catherine H. Hausman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Her work focuses on environmental and energy economics. Her research has appeared in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Recent projects have looked at the economic and environmental impacts of shale gas; the market impacts of nuclear power plant closures; and the effects of electricity market deregulation on nuclear power safety. Prior to her graduate studies, Catherine studied in Peru under a Fulbright grant. She has taught Statistics, a policy seminar on Energy and the Environment, and a course on Government Regulation of Industry and the Environment. She holds a BA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Miami Dr. Curry is an academic generalist, practicing both obstetrics and gynecology. She has an interest in comprehensive reproductive health. She is supportive of women seeking trials of labor after previous cesarean sections and those desiring external cephalic versions. Her gynecology practice includes both outpatient well woman care, contraception and sexually transmitted disease care, as well as inpatient surgical management of benign gynecologic disease.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, with a courtesy appointment at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development for Vanderbilt University. She is also a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Robert Eckles Swain National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests include a broad array of issues in political behavior, public policy, and the political economy of development. She is concerned with basic research on bounded rationality, as well as in integrating insights from theories of bounded rationality into models and empirical analyses of political and economic decision-making and institutions. Her applied work namely focuses on understanding and addressing important social problems related to inequality, prejudice, gender-based violence, and education. She is currently working on several papers examining how to model biases to which individuals are subject, as well as research on human trafficking vulnerability and public opinion around human trafficking policies. In addition to this work, she has written on a variety of other topics, including anti-immigrant sentiment and education policy. She is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2015 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year's annual meeting.
Research Investigator, University of Michigan Dr. Craig Smith’s research focuses on children’s social cognitive development and links to social behavior. Examples of specific areas of interest are: children’s developing understanding of distributive and retributive justice, children’s understanding of antisociality, children’s reactions to conflicts and mitigating accounts (apologies, confessions, etc.), influences on children’s money saving and spending behaviors, links between math performance and cognition about fairness, and children’s use of social input as a guide for future thinking. Craig is currently the director of the Living Lab project at the University of Michigan. The Living Lab is a research/education model that brings developmental research into community settings such as museums and libraries. The UM Living Lab sites currently include the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, the UM Museum of Natural History, and the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. Since the start of the Living Lab project in 2012, over 6,000 children and families have participated in research in these community settings, and thousands more have had opportunities to converse with researchers studying child development.
Lecturer in Animal Science, Newcastle University The pinnacle of my achievement to date has to be my Ig Nobel Prize, International Prize for Veterinary Medicine . More serious roles and responsibilities are as a Lecturer at Newcastle University in Animal Science, Agriculture and Joint Honours in Science. I lecture in a range of Animal Science (Livestock and Companion) related disciplines including: Animal Welfare, Behaviour, Nutrition. Degree Programme Director Joint Honours in Science, Newcastle University Research Interests: Animal Welfare and Behaviour: Human-animal interaction and its affects on welfare, behaviour and production in the dairy herd. Cognitive bias to measure affective state. Can whether an animal perceives its glass half full or half empty, be measured and if so can it inform on the welfare of the animal under different management regimes. Companion animal behaviour and welfare Student Transition: Peer Assisted Learning, and extended inductions to reduce attrition and increase success in non-traditional learners in HE.
Ph.D. Student in Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I research the development of moral beliefs and beliefs about social groups. I am interested in how cognition and social context influence these beliefs in children and adults.
