The w88 slot online Senate Early Career Academic w88 slot online Committee hosted its biannual Meet Future Collaborators Lightning Talks event Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
"We call it a collaborative session," Amy Hunsaker, ECAFC committee member and digital initiatives librarian for University Libraries, said. "We can get trapped in our silos, and these sessions give us an opportunity to share our work with our colleagues across w88 slot online."
The event featured five-minute research presentations from seven early-career w88 slot online members representing a variety of disciplines across the University.
The Lightning Talks, attended by nearly 30, were held from 4-5 p.m. in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center's Knowledge Nook. It is an event designed to provide an opportunity for new w88 slot online to share their current research with colleagues from around campus in a friendly environment.
Presenters and Projects
- David Johnson, assistant w88 slot online education, Professional Specialized Studies
How are universities reconfiguring their "social contract" with society
- Andrew Nuss, assistant w88 slot online agriculture, Entomology, Agriculture, Nutrition and Veterinary Sciences
Insecticide discovery by targeting peptide receptors and physiological functions of peptide hormones
- Mozart Fonseca, assistant w88 slot online agriculture, Animal Science, Agriculture, Nutrition and Veterinary Sciences
Beef cattle production and applied modeling
- Bradley Ferguson, assistant w88 slot online nutrition, Agriculture, Nutrition and Veterinary Sciences
The study of diet and lysine acetylation in the heart
- Chris Barile, assistant w88 slot online chemistry, Chemistry
Smarter windows with tunable transparency
- Ruthie Meadows, assistant w88 slot online music, Ethnomusicology, Music Department
The Nigerian Connection: Re-Africanizing Cuban religion in sound
- Tara Radniecki, engineering librarian, w88 slot online Libraries
How might academic library makerspaces impact undergraduate student learning?
The Early Career Academic w88 slot online Committee promotes the success of early career academic w88 slot online, conducts studies on University practices, policies and procedures and makes recommendations to the senate and administration on matters that affect the welfare and success of Early Career w88 slot online.
"Thank you all for coming," Maggie Ressel, committee chair and director of access services for w88 slot online Libraries, said after the 50-minute program. "If anyone who is not a presenter who would like to present, we welcome your exciting research in the future."
The next Lighting Talks event will be planned for the fall semester and scheduled soon.If anyone has any observations, comments or suggestions for improving future events, or would like to be a speaker, contact Maggie Ressel at ressel@unr.edu or 775-682-5653.
