The w88 online live casino Senate Early Career Academic w88 online live casino Committee hosted its biannual Meet Future Collaborators Lightning Talks event Tuesday, Nov. 28. The event was held from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center's Knowledge Nook. It is an event designed to provide an opportunity for new w88 online live casino to share their current research with colleagues from around campus in a friendly environment.
"I'd like to express our great thanks for the wonderful presentations," Maggie Ressel, committee chair and director of access services for w88 online live casino Libraries, said. "We received many positive comments from attendees, and it seemed to result in a lot of good discussion after the event."
Committee member Amy Hunsaker, digital initiatives librarian, introduced the event and welcomed nearly 35 attendees. This event featured five-minute research presentations from eight early-career w88 online live casino members representing a variety of disciplines across the University.
Presenters and Projects
- Heather Holmes, assistant professor, Department of Physics, College of Science
Atmospheric Turbulence and Air Quality (ATAQ) Lab
- Michael Taylor, assistant professor, Department of Economics, College of Business
Economics Department Seminar Series, including projects on Water and Wildfire in w88 online live casino, Lake Tahoe and Cooperative Extension Projects
- Samuel Ehrenreich, assistant professor, Human Development & Family Studies, College of Education
Digital Communication in Adolescent Development
- Samuel Odoh, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Science
Computational Chemistry for Converting Natural Gas to Methanol
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Samuel Odoh, talks to a group of early-career w88 online live casino during the Future Collaborators Lighting Talk event Tuesday, Nov. 28.
- Ignacio Montoya, assistant professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Morphological modes in Native American languages - Laura Rocke, librarian, w88 online live casino Libraries
New Scenes: Street Art in Virtual Reality - Fang Jiang, assistant professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
Multisensory perceptual training in the elderly
- Ian Wallace, assistant professor of biochemistry & molecular biology, College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources
Tuning plant energy outputs for sustainable product production
Following the presentations, attendees had an opportunity to network and develop connections with other w88 online live casino as well as try out a virtual reality headset brought in by Knowledge Center staff from the @Reality Studio. Light refreshments were also served.
"I did have one w88 online live casino member say, 'I'd come to these every month,' - that was incredible," Ressel said.
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"If anyone has any observations, comments or suggestions for improving future events, we'd gratefully accept input," Ressel said. "We are open to suggestions for future speakers as well. Thanks again to those who attended; we hope to see more our next event."
The next Lighting Talks event will be planned for the spring semester and scheduled soon.
