CASL Faculty Research Slam

2020 Research Slam

Join us for the 6th annual CASL Faculty Research Slam

Friday, October 30 ... 9-11 a.m. via Zoom webinar. To attend, register through the link below.

Below is the list of faculty scheduled to present in seven minute formats. Abstracts are linked to presentation titles.

• 9:00-9:05: Welcome
• 9:05-9:12: Maya Barak (criminal justice): Rethinking Procedural Justice: Hypnobirthing and Immigration Court
• 9:14-9:21: John Abramyan (biology): Genetic Analysis Reveals Early Tooth Loss in Toads
• 9:22-9:29: Michael Dabkowski (mathematics): Nonlocal Equations: Understanding Coagulation and Fragmentation of Particle Clusters
• 9:31-9:38: Shelly Jarenski (English literature): "No Such Thing as a Black Cowboy”—Re-capturing Black Cowboy Culture and Black Eco-Critical Consciousness in Shelton Johnson’s Gloryland
• 9:40-9:47: Brian Dates (public administration and policy): The Effect of Transition to Telemental Health on Service Delivery in the Community Mental Health System in Response to SARS-Cov-II
• 9:49-9:56: Georgy Khabarovskiy (French): Ways of Traveling and Knowing in French Women’s Colonial Writings from the Interwar Period
• 9:58-10:05: Maureen Linker (philosophy): What we can learn from an 18th century British Philosopher about Ethical Leadership Today?: Hume on Natural Virtues
• 10:06-10:13: Zhong Xu Liu (psychology): Visual exploration facilitates memory formation: The involvement of the hippocampus
• 10:14-10:21: Kristin Poling (history): How City Walls Fell: Uncovering the Origins of a Modern Myth
• 10:23-10:30: Peter Oelkers (biology and biochemistry): Membranes, the Fabric of Life
• 10:32-10:39: Nadja Rottner (art history): Claes Oldenburg and the Beautiful Schlopp with a Cherry on Top
• 10:41-10:48: Tian An Wong (mathematics): Variations of a parallel search game
• 10:49-10:55: Closing Remarks

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2019 Research Slam

Faculty presented in PechaKucha style ... the art of concise presentations, 20 images x 20 seconds ... at the fifth annual Research Slam on November 1, 2019. Click on the faculty member's presentation title for a video display.

• Elena Zhang (NSCI): The impact of pediatric traumatic brain injury on the hippocampal adult neurogenesis and cognitive function
• Cam Amin (SSCI): The MIAOHP and Iranian Diaspora Studies
• Sonia Tiquia-Arashiro (NSCI): The Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance
• Yunus Zeytuncu (MATH): Solving differential equations in different geometries
• Rusi Sun (SSCI): Integrating, Contending, Yielding or Avoiding? A Study on City Managers’ Choice of Conflict Management Strategies
• Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (LPA): Voices of Arab Detroit: Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
• Francine Dolins (BSCI): Where the Wild Things Are…and How They Get There: Bonobo, chimpanzee and human navigation in virtual reality (VR)
• John Abramyan (NSCI): Nasal Plugs in Chicken Embryos 
• Jamie Shinhee Lee (LCC): Polylingual paronomasia, creative hybridity, and the linguistic landscape 
• Kalyan Kondapalli (NSCI): An Inside Job: Role of Endosomal pH Regulation in Brain Cancer
• Pam Aronson (BSCI): Gender Differences in Definitions of Consent and Sexual Assault in the #MeToo Era
• Susan Erickson (LPA): Berthold Laufer in Xi’an, China​​​​​​​

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Faculty presented in PechaKucha style ... the art of concise presentations, 20 images x 20 seconds ... at the fourth annual Research Slam on October 26, 2018. Click on the faculty member's presentation title for a video display.

• Pam McAuslan (BSCI): “Modeling Media’s Influence on Rape Myth Acceptance and Reactions to Sexual Assault”
• Ilir Miteza (SSCI): “To de-dollarize or not to de-dollarize: a monetary policy dilemma”
• Deborah Smith Pollard (LPA): “‘Oh, Happy Day’”: 50th Anniversary of a Game Changer”
• Kris Bandyopadhyay (NSCI): “Nanoparticle as catalyst, cancer remediation and biosensor”
• Lisa Martin (CWP): “The Sky Doesn’t Fall: Combatting Abortion Stigma in Medical Institutions”
• Thomas Bianchette (NSCI): “If Coasts Could Speak - Geological Impacts and Paleo-reconstructions of Extreme Events”
• Amy Brainer (CWP/BSCI):  “Queering Family Immigration”
• Don Shelton (CWP): “The Criminology Theory of Relativity: Using Genealogy Databases to Solve Crimes”
• Rose Wellman (BSCI): “A More Nuanced Perspective: State Supporters in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
• Caleb Siefert (BSCI): “Stay Away, It Hurts: How Attachment Ambivalence contributes to Stress-Related Physical Symptoms in Young Adults”
• Margaret Murray (LCC): “Race, Class, and Authenticity in Pitchfork Music Reviews: The Reception of Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne”
• Mike Lachance (MATH): “Un-crushing the Can”