Ben Smarr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of BioengineeringBen Smarr, Ph.D.
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Understanding How Life uses Time to Improve Health, Education, and the World
Understanding How Life uses Time to Improve Health, Education, and the World
Life on Earth is the living embodiment of information's value. Now that individuals generate data across time with digital trails and wearable sensors, we can begin to see how humans evolved to use time to orchestrate their bodies. Modern life often conflicts with natural time by imposing social demands that go against the rhythms of our bodies. The more we learn about time in our lives (and the lives of all organisms), the more informed can be our personal and societal choices about how we use time in this modern context for which we are not so well adapted.
Ongoing projects are listed below, but are not exhaustive. While they may seem disparate, they are united in generating examples of the opportunities that incorporating biological time seems to offer across fields and across populations.
I encourage any and all to reach out if they are interested in biological time and/or how data can influence your life. Student projects are welcome, as are academic and private collaborations with a goal of sharing information.
Seeing Diversity in Data
Seeing Diversity in Data
Seeing Diversity with Data is about exploring real-world data, exposing patterns through clever analyses, and using these patterns to construct data-driven stories to bring awareness to the diversity in human experience. Sometimes the focus is on enriching existing stories, sometimes it is about discovering new narratives to expand.
Supporting Womens Health
Supporting Womens Health
Biomedical research is usually carried out on men. The result is a lack of understanding about the nature women's physiology, and a failure to appreciate its importance. New tools let us take quantum leaps in precision women's health, and let us numerically undermine old arguments against the inclusion of women in research.
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