Winter College 2020 Program

WINTER COLLEGE

Phoenix, AZ • Feb. 28-March 1 Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass

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FRIDAY, FEB. 28

For more than 15 years, Winter College has been a destination event providing an opportunity to relive the Miami Experience by returning to the classroom for thought provoking lectures from Miami’s top faculty and experts. This year, we welcome you to beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, where there’s plenty to do in and out of the classroom. Our theme this year is current affairs, including topics such as college drinking, vaccines, health care and everything you need to know about the 2020 election.

NOON

Winter College check-in desk opens Akimel Foyer

2 P.M.

Class Period A » Drunk, Drunker and Drunkest: Recent Trends and Insights on College Students and Alcohol Dr. Rose Marie Ward Kave One

3:15 P.M.

We also welcome outstanding featured speakers in Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks ’82, Miami President Greg Crawford and University Ambassador Dr. Renate Crawford.

Along with connecting with fellow Miamians and university representatives, be sure to enjoy the weekend and take advantage of the stunning landscape of our gorgeous locale.

» Go West, Young Woman: An Economic Perspective on Women’s Enfranchisement Dr. Melissa Thomasson Kave One 4 P.M.

Hotel check-in

4:30 P.M.

Class Period C » What's a Non-Newtonian Fluid? How Slime Can Help Us Understand 3D Printing and Biofabrication Dr. Jessica Sparks Kave One

Love and Honor,

Kim Tavares MBA ’12 Executive Director Miami University Alumni Association

Class Period B

5 P.M.

Winter College check-in desk closes

6:15 P.M.

Welcome reception, sponsored by the Knolls of Oxford Coyote, Buzzard and Eagle Patios

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6:45 P.M.

Dinner and Presentation (Class Period D)

» And They're Off! A Primer for the 2020

Presidential Election (That Will Surely Be Overcome by Events on Twitter by the End of the Middle of Next Week) Dr. Patrick J. Haney Coyote, Buzzard and Eagle Patios

Lunch and presentation (Class Period H) » Why DOES U.S. Health Care Cost So Much?

Dr. Melissa Thomasson Kave Three 12:15 P.M.

2 P.M.

SATURDAY, FEB. 29 7 A.M.

Winter College check-in desk opens Kave Foyer

7-8:30 A.M. Buffet breakfast (at your leisure)

Akimel Patio

8:30 A.M.

» Kitchen Pest to Star Student: The Fruit Fly as a Model Research Organism Dr. Joyce J. Fernandes Kave One 3:15 P.M.

Better Communication and Patient Safety in the OR Dr. Jessica L. Sparks Kave One

» FYRE'd up! Undergraduate

9:45 A.M.

Class Period F

» It’s All Fun and Games until You Go Viral – Then it’s Really Fun  Alcohol Consumption and Social Media Dr. Rose Marie Ward Kave One 11 A.M.

Winter College check-in desk closes

Class Period J

» Talk Surgery to Me: Medical Simulators,

Class Period E Research at Miami Dr. Joyce J. Fernandes Kave One

Class Period I

6 P.M.

Reception

Dinner featuring Rep. Susan W. Brooks ’82 in

conversation with Dr. Patrick J. Haney Kave Three

6:30 P.M.

8:30 P.M.

Class Period K » Can Your Social Circle Kill You? Three Diseases and a Medical Mystery Dr. Cameron Hay-Rollins Kave Two

Class Period G

» Walking Away from Vaccination: Measles

and Morality

Dr. Cameron Hay-Rollins Kave One

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SUNDAY, MARCH 1 Buffet Breakfast (at your leisure) Akimel Patio

7-8:30 A.M. 8:30 A.M.

Class Period L

» A xis of Evil: Where Are They Now?

A Guided Tour of Today's Threats to National Security, from Terrorism to Great Power Competition Dr. Patrick J. Haney Kave One

9:45 A.M.

Class Period M

» Miami Update with President Greg and

Dr. Renate Crawford Kave Two

11 A.M.

Hotel check-out

A SPECIAL THANK YOU The Miami University Alumni Association thanks The Knolls of Oxford for its ongoing support of Winter College.

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WINTER COLLEGE 2020 | FEATURED SPEAKERS

CONGRESSWOMAN SUSAN W. BROOKS ’82 REPRESENTATIVE, INDIANA DISTRICT 5

Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks ’82 represents the 5th District of Indiana, which spans eight urban, suburban and rural counties in central Indiana. She uses her background as a deputy mayor of Indianapolis, a U.S. attorney and a community college administrator to improve education, jobs, health and homeland security.

She currently serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Health, the Communications and Technology, and the Oversight and Investigations subcommittees.

Through her membership on the Energy and Commerce Committee, Congresswoman Brooks is working on mental health, substance abuse, biodefense, public safety, telecommunications issues and more. She also serves on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress where she is focused on restoring confidence in Congress and making it easier for Americans to participate in the business of the People’s House.

GREG CRAWFORD MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

Before beginning as Miami University’s 22nd president, Dr. Greg Crawford was vice president and associate provost at the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as the dean of engineering at Brown University, where he had joined the physics and engineering faculty in 1996. President Crawford is an advocate of inclusive excellence, openness and shared governance. At Miami, he has advanced diversity and inclusion as core values of the institution.

DR. RENATE CRAWFORD MIAMI UNIVERSITY AMBASSADOR

Dr. Renate Crawford is Miami University’s ambassador and an adjunct professor of physics.

Upon receiving her doctorate in physics at Kent State University, she became a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Biomolecular Engineering at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Most recently, she served as director of engagement for academic recruitment at the University of Notre Dame. She has nearly 30 scientific and teaching publications and is co-inventor on three U.S. patents.

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DR. JOYCE J. FERNANDES' CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. JOYCE J. FERNANDES PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Joyce J. Fernandes has been at Miami since 1999, having completed her post-doctoral training at Yale University. Dr Fernandes teaches courses in cell biology, developmental biology and neurobiology. Her research examines neural plasticity during the reorganization of motor systems in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, which has many parallels to the developing adolescent brain. Dr. Fernandes’ research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation as well as the National Institutes of Health. She is also involved with efforts to improve success in introductory biology courses. Since 2012, she has been involved with graduate student-led instruction to teach metacognitive approaches for student success. This work was recently published in a leading education research journal, CBE-Life Science Education (2017). Dr Fernandes also serves as director of undergraduate research and oversees an institutional First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program, which has incorporated a course-based research model in the last three years.

FYRE’D UP! UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AT MIAMI

The recently released U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges 2020” guidebook ranks Miami University in the top 50 of best national public universities. Several co-curricular programs were identified as key components of the Miami Experience, including a No. 12 ranking in undergraduate research/creative projects. Each year, more than 2,000 undergraduates work with professors on funded research, many starting in their first year. Come hear about how the Office of Research for Undergraduates (ORU), established in 2014, is raising the profile of undergraduate research at Miami University and beyond through campus-wide partnerships and signature programs such as the First Year Research Experience (FYRE) program.

KITCHEN PEST TO STAR STUDENT: THE FRUIT FLY AS A MODEL RESEARCH ORGANISM

Research drives innovation, which in turn creates breakthroughs that are of societal relevance. This session will provide insights into research using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, which has implications for a variety of human conditions such as cancer, injury to the nervous system, mental health and child development. This session was standing room only at Alumni Weekend, and you don’t want to miss it!

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DR. PATRICK J. HANEY’S CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. PATRICK J. HANEY PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ASSOCIATE DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Patrick J. Haney is professor of political science and associate dean in the College of Arts and Science. He teaches courses on American foreign and national security policy and world politics, and he started his career at Miami in the fall of 1992. His research and writing focuses on the politics of making U.S. foreign policy, including work on ethnic interest groups in general, on Cuba policy in particular and on how U.S. presidents use their advisers in decision-making during foreign policy crises. He earned his Ph.D. at Indiana University (1992) and his B.A. from The Ohio State University (1988). He is the author or co-editor of five books and more than 30 articles and chapters. He is an alumnus of Winter College (’13) and several Alumni Weekends, and in spite of that, he was still invited back.

AXIS OF EVIL: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? A GUIDED TOUR OF TODAY’S THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY, FROM TERRORISM TO GREAT POWER COMPETITION

Patrick Haney will lead participants on a survey of contemporary threats to the United States, including domestic and international terrorism, the old Axis of Evil (where Iran and North Korea would draw headlines!) and the return of great power competition from Russia and China.

The class will take part in an exercise where we will identify the most important threat to the nation today. If knowledge is power, then this session aims to arm us all for the foreign policy debates of the 2020 election cycle.

AND THEY’RE OFF! A PRIMER FOR THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (THAT WILL SURELY BE OVERCOME BY EVENTS ON TWITTER BY THE END OF THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK)

2020 is a presidential election year, and in fact the early primaries are behind us and the South Carolina Primary will happen while we are together! So let’s break out our Electoral College maps, brush up on the different ways you can add up to 270 and preview what is likely to be an exciting election season.

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DR. CAMERON HAY-ROLLINS’ CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. CAMERON HAY-ROLLINS PROFESSOR AND DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY CHAIR, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Professor Cameron Hay-Rollins works to empower students with knowledge and skills to understand the complexities of people’s health, the contexts that constrain them and the realistic pathways to make a difference. She is professor and chair in the Department of Anthropology, director of the Global Health Research Innovation Center and coordinator of Miami’s global health minor.

Professor Hay-Rollins earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Emory University. After completing an NSF funded post-doctoral position at UCLA, she accepted an assistant professorship at Miami University in 2005, where she teaches a wide variety of courses in anthropology, particularly medical and psychological anthropology, as well as in global health. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Miami University Distinguished Scholar Award. As a scholar, Professor Hay-Rollins has 25 years of experience studying how people experience, understand and seek to cope with illness. All of her work mixes qualitative and quantitative methodologies so that her results matter to the patients and health care providers with whom she works.

CAN YOUR SOCIAL CIRCLE KILL YOU? THREE DISEASES AND A MEDICAL MYSTERY

If you want to understand the whys of disease and suffering, start with the fact that humans are inherently social beings.

The social worlds we inhabit and the cultural ideologies that frame our thoughts play a large role in how much illness can impact an individual. This class will explore three diseases that unravel people’s lives, then participants will explore a medical mystery and the ways society augments disease and suffering.

WALKING AWAY FROM VACCINATION: MEASLES AND MORALITY

The United States is in the midst of its worst measles outbreak since 1994. Using approaches and perspectives from medical anthropology and global health, we will look at the public perception of communicable disease and the moralities that shape vaccination decision-making within local cultural worlds. This session will help participants better understand why measles, a communicable disease that was declared “eliminated” in 2000, has come roaring back.

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DR. JESSICA L. SPARKS’ CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. JESSICA L. SPARKS PROFESSOR OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING

Jessica Sparks received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Ohio State University in 2007, where she was the recipient of the Distinguished University Fellowship Award for 2002 and 2007. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame in pre-medical studies and philosophy, and she earned a master’s degree in anatomy from Ohio State.

Dr. Sparks is trained in biomechanics, specializing in soft tissue mechanical characterization and computational biomechanical modeling. Her experience in skin biomechanics includes mechanical characterization of lower limb dermis following static/cyclic preconditioning regimes and the use of silicone materials to simulate soft tissue biomechanics related to deep tissue injury.

Her current areas of research encompass additive manufacturing (3D printing), scaffold biofabrication, medical simulation and liver bioengineering.

Dr. Sparks is currently a professor in the Department of Chemical, Paper and Biomedical Engineering at Miami University. She is actively engaged in teaching and research activities in the bioengineering program.

WHAT’S A NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID? HOW SLIME CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND 3D PRINTING AND BIOFABRICATION

3D printing is a rapidly expanding technology. This session will provide an overview of some of the major categories of 3D printing approaches in use today, focusing on the specific category of direct-write 3D printing, which relies on the tricky properties of non-Newtonian fluids. The session will include a demonstration of the unusual behaviors of nonNewtonian fluids, and we will discuss how these unusual behaviors are critical for successful direct-write 3D printing.

Participants will learn how fun non-Newtonian substances are relied on by researchers around the world who work in the area of biofabrication.

TALK SURGERY TO ME: MEDICAL SIMULATORS, BETTER COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT SAFETY IN THE OR

Research shows that surgical teams with low mortality rates communicate more effectively and frequently, while surgeons report that their greatest personal deficit is communication skills. In this session, Dr. Jessica Sparks will discuss the creation of the Synthetic Anatomy for Surgical Tasks (SAST) Mannequin, a human patient simulator, which led to greater gains in teamwork skills when used by surgical residents in a simulated operating room (OR). This class will learn how a relatively inexpensive, medium-fidelity synthetic patient simulator was as effective as using high-fidelity anatomy from deceased donors for promoting essential communication and teamwork skills to ensure patient safety.

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DR. MELISSA THOMASSON’S CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. MELISSA THOMASSON

WHY DOES U.S. HEALTH CARE COST SO MUCH?

JULIAN LANGE PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, FARMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other country in the world, yet we do not lead the world in health outcomes. Our health care system is a mess. Despite numerous attempts to solve some of these issues, many of them still exist. This nonpartisan class traces the economic development of the health care system to identify the actors and economic incentives that created it. As it explains the economic underpinnings of the current health care structure, it sheds light on why the system is so difficult to fix and offers a deeper understanding of how our health care problems can be more effectively resolved.

Melissa Thomasson is the Julian Lange Professor of Economics at Miami University and studies the economic history of health insurance and health care.

She has served at Miami since 1998. Thomasson is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, has served on the editorial boards of two journals in her field and is the executive director of the Cliometric Society. She has testified before Congress and her findings have been cited in top outlets, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and in reports prepared for the U.S. Senate and the United Nations.

GO WEST, YOUNG WOMAN: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE ON WOMEN’S ENFRANCHISEMENT

New Jersey allowed women to vote as early as 1776, yet restricted suffrage to tax-paying white men by 1807. It took over 50 more years for all U.S. women to gain suffrage with the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920, and 20 states did not adopt suffrage until after the 19th amendment required it. This class provides an economic history of voting rights in the U.S. as it examines the political economy of the movement for women’s suffrage, explaining why Western states granted women the right to vote first, and discussing the relationship between abolition, prohibition and women’s suffrage.

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DR. ROSE MARIE WARD’S CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

DR. ROSE MARIE WARD PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH, COLLEGE OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY

Rose Marie Ward is a professor of public health at Miami University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2002 in experimental psychology.

She joined Miami in 2002. She has received the highest teaching awards at Miami University: Alumni Effective Educator Award (2015), Knox Excellence in Teaching Award (2012) and Women’s Leadership Award (2007).

Her research interests are in the area of college student health, with a focus on both addictive/harmful behaviors (alcohol use, disordered eating and unwanted sexual behavior). From 2014-2017, she served as the director of Miami’s Center for Teaching Excellence. Currently, she is the interim associate provost and dean of the Graduate School. Every class and every student is an opportunity to learn and grow as an educator.

DRUNK, DRUNKER AND DRUNKEST: RECENT TRENDS AND INSIGHTS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS AND ALCOHOL

College student alcohol consumption remains at problematic levels despite intervention and prevention efforts. Moreover, high intensity drinking and blacking out (i.e., alcoholinduced amnesia) are common even among social drinkers.

This session will examine college students’ beliefs about alcohol and their relationship with outcomes.

IT’S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL YOU GO VIRAL – THEN IT’S REALLY FUN  ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Young adults share fun, embarrassing and sometimes frightening alcohol-related stories via social media (e.g., SnapChat, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook).

Sometimes these stories take on a life of their own and become viral. In this session, we will discuss what it means to “go viral,” offer a primer on the social media channels you might not regularly use and explain recent trends (what’s a meme?). Participants will embark on an internet scavenger hunt to explore alcohol-related social media posts.

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