Events

Past Event

SCHOLARTalks

April 17, 2023
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
America/New_York
Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 523

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

Contact Information

Marianna Pecoraro