Professor of Political Science, Drake University Mary M. McCarthy, Professor of Political Science, teaches numerous regional courses on the politics and international relations of Japan, China, and East Asia, as well as topical courses in world and comparative politics. She received her B.A. in East Asian studies and her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Dr. McCarthy specializes in Japan’s domestic and foreign policies. She has published on topics including the Japanese media, and cooperation and conflict between Japan and China in the East China Sea. Her current research examines the historical legacies of the Asia-Pacific War on Japan-U.S., Japan-China, and Japan-Korea relations. She is also a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Scholar. Besides her teaching and research, Dr. McCarthy enjoys mentoring students to help them to have the most enriching experience both at Drake and beyond. In this capacity, she advises students on post-graduate opportunities in Asia, including teaching English in Japan through the prestigious Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET).
Investigadora Postdoctoral, Universidad de Oviedo Licenciada en Ciencia Ambientales por la Universitat de Barcelona. Promoción 2005-2010 Doctorada en Ciencias del Mar por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya con la tesis titulada "“Spatio-temporal processes explaining salp aggregations and their role in the Catalan Sea, northwestern Mediterranean Sea”. Dirigida por Verónica Fuentes y José Luís Acuña, y realizada en el Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) de Barcelona. Programa de doctorado de Ciencias del Mar de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Septiembre 2016 Postdoctorado en la Universidad de Oviedo, laboratorio de Carlos López Otín para envestigar las claves del envejecimiento en diversas especies marinas.
Mitacs Elevate Post-Doctoral Scholar, McGill University I take inspiration from nature when designing surfaces to solve engineering problems. This includes anti-wetting, anti-icing, and anti-fouling surfaces.
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Florida International University I am the Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor of Computer Science in FIU's Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. Research Interests I study the science of narrative, including understanding the relationship between narrative, cognition, and culture, developing new methods and techniques for investigating questions related to language and narrative, and endowing machines with the ability to understand and use narratives for a variety of applications. Key problems I have addressed so far include: extracting high-level narrative structure from sets of stories; techniques for discourse processing; temporal information extraction; general natural language processing; the creation, annotation, and manipulation of language resources; and collecting richly annotated corpora of stories. My research intersects computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computational social science, and the digital humanities. Brief Bio I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Patrick H. Winston. Following that, I was a Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for 2½ years. I received my S.M. in 2001 from MIT, and the B.S. in 1998 from the University of Michigan, both in Electrical Engineering. I received promotion and tenure in Summer of 2020. While at FIU my work has been funded by NSF, NIH, ONR, DARPA, DHS, and IBM.
Course Director, Music Psychology in Education, Performance and Wellbeing, University of Sheffield I received my PhD and MA in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield, where I am currently the Course Director of the MA in Music Psychology in Education, Performance and Wellbeing, and an Honorary Research Fellow. I am a longstanding Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (recently renamed as the Independent Society of Musicians), a registered trainer for the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. After an early career as a professional singer with international contracts, I developed a diverse portfolio of work as a performer, teacher, conductor, choral arranger, director and workshop leader. I have run my own professional theatre company, opera group and jazz ensemble, alongside maintaining a well-established private teaching practice. I have also taught extensively in primary and secondary schools, Further Education colleges and Higher Education institutions, including York St John University and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. My research interests include performance anxiety management; confidence building for performers; music and wellbeing; ensemble leadership; and group dynamics in musical contexts. I have a special interest in the practical applications of research, and regularly lead public engagement and training events based on my research, teaching and professional experience. My participatory workshops have included voice training for transgender and non-binary people; group singing for people who self-identify as ‘non-singers’; using singing-related skills to support people with respiratory conditions and vocal disorders; music and wellbeing sessions for mental health service users; practical applications of performance psychology for singers, conductors and choir leaders; and developing confident performance in a wide range of musical and non-musical settings.
PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environment Sciences, The University of Queensland I am a Fijian woman pursuing a PhD at The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. My project seeks to advance understanding of opportunities and challenges for transformative mobilities where mobility contributes to climate change adaptation and positive development outcomes across multiple scales, places of origin, destination and transition. My research site is Fiji. Standing on the shoulders of three Giants that form my advisory team A/Prof Karen McNamara (UQ), A/Prof Celia McMichael (Unimelb) and Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar (QUT). Prior to my PhD journey, I have worked at USP as a regional teaching assistant/facilitator for students around the Pacific. During my PhD , I have been privileged to be part of several projects funded by the Australian Research Council as a research assistant and project officer using Talanoa research method to investigate climate change and adaptation, voluntary immobility, planned relocation, place-belongingness and gender food security and disaster resilience in the context of climate-related risks. I have conducted fieldwork in 8 communities in Fiji from 2021 to 2022. I am also a fellow with Australia Climate for Change organisation whose main aim is to help everyday Australians to have a better conversation about climate change and to take action.
