Please join the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement for SCHOLARTalks, an inaugural lightning talks program to highlight emerging faculty and scholar voices in research across all disciplines at Columbia University.
SCHOLARTalks will be held on Monday, April 17, 2023 from 4:00pm-6:00pm in Butler Library, Room 523. The lightning talks will be followed by a Q&A and networking session. The event will feature presentations by Wei Cai, Alissa Davis, Nicholas Deas, Howard Nicholson, Edward Owusu-Ansah, Andrew Paige, Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia, Joshua Taliaferro, and Vidhu Thaker.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Program:
Edward Owusu-Ansah (Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)
Regulation of mitochondrial complex I assembly in Drosophila melanogaster
Joshua Taliaferro (MD/PhD Candidate, Neurobiology and Behavior)
It Takes a Team: The Dynamic Neurological Basis of Working Memory
Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
“The Work Which Becomes a New Genre Itself”: A Case Study of Black Representations and Interactions within Contemporary Japanese Anime
Alissa Davis (Associate Professor of Social Work)
Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults to Develop a Digital HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention Using Crowdsourcing
Nicholas Deas (PhD Candidate, Computer Science)
African American Language in Large Language Models
Vidhu Thaker (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)
Zebras, Horses, Diversity and Biology
Howard Nicholson (PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering)
Contribution of Blood Components to Cell Death in ACL Injury Through Ferroptotic Mechanisms
Wei Cai (Assistant Professor of Business)
Culture Fit System: How to Measure and Manage Culture through Employee Selection
