CASL Faculty Research Slam

2021 Research Slam

On October 28, the following faculty discussed their research in seven minute presentation formats. Click on presentation titles to view abstracts of the talks. Videos of the talks are posted below.

3:00-3:05 pm: Welcome

• 3:05-3:12 pm: Bill DeGenaro (Composition and Rhetoric): The Bad Speller: Error, Satire, and Ridicule
• 3:14-3:21 pm: Michelle Leonard (Psychology): Coupling with COVID
• 3:23-3:30 pm: Elena Zhang (Neurobiology): The temporal and spatial correlation of amyloid-β, tau pathology and ER stress in a pediatric traumatic brain injury model
• 3:32-3:39 pm: Deborah Smith Pollard (English Literature and Humanities): All I See Is Your Booty and Cleavage’: Sex and the Contemporary Gospel Song
• 3:42-3:49 pm: Jorge Gonzalez del Pozo (Spanish): Spanish Food: The Quest for Identity in a Globalized World
• 3:51-3:58 pm: Ulrich Kamp (Earth and Environment): The Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition of 1931: Mapping Glacier Recession Through the Lens of Repeat Images
• 4:00-4:07 pm: Jamie Wraight (History): Reconstructing Chelmno: An Exercise In Historical Representation and Recreation
• 4:09-4:16 pm: Kriszta Sajber (Philosophy): Patient Autonomy and The Ethics of Vaccination
• 4:18-4:25 pm: Margaret Murray (Communication): Calm in the Storm: Emily Oster’s Parenting Newsletter during COVID-19

4:25-4:30 pm: Closing Remarks

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On October 30, the following faculty discussed their research in seven minute presentation formats. Some of the videos of their presentations are posted below

• John Abramyan (biology): Genetic Analysis Reveals Early Tooth Loss in Toads 
• Maya Barak (criminal justice): Rethinking Procedural Justice: Hypnobirthing and Immigration Court
• Michael Dabkowski (mathematics): Nonlocal Equations: Understanding Coagulation and Fragmentation of Particle Clusters
• 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
• 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
• Georgy Khabarovskiy (French): Ways of Traveling and Knowing in French Women’s Colonial Writings from the Interwar Period
• Maureen Linker (philosophy): What we can learn from an 18th century British Philosopher about Ethical Leadership Today?: Hume on Natural Virtues
• Zhong Xu Liu (psychology): Visual exploration facilitates memory formation: The involvement of the hippocampus
• Kristin Poling (history): How City Walls Fell: Uncovering the Origins of a Modern Myth
• Peter Oelkers (biology and biochemistry): Membranes, the Fabric of Life
• Nadja Rottner (art history): Claes Oldenburg and the Beautiful Schlopp with a Cherry on Top
• Tian An Wong (mathematics): Variations of a parallel search game

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”

Faculty presented in PechaKucha style ... the art of concise presentations, 20 images x 20 seconds ... at the third annual Research Slam on October 30, 2017. 

• Pam Aronson (SOC): “’I’m Not Voting for Her:’ Internalized Misogyny, Feminism and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election”
• Warren Anderson (ECON): "Elections, Gold and Native American Conflicts"
• Marilee Benore (BIO): “Dali's Moustache and the Importance of Protein Stability”
• Will Clarkson (PHYS):  "A new use of the Hubble Space Telescope for Galactic Archaeology"
• Antonios Koumpias (ECON): "Behavioral Strategies to Enhance Tax Compliance in Metro Detroit"
• Michael Macdonald (COMP): "Literacy and Forced Migration" 
• Susana Pecina (PSYC):  "Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure"
• Jennifer Proctor (JASS): “EDIT Media: Best Practices in Inclusive Teaching in Media Production”
• Gabriella Scarlatta (FREN):  "Crime and Punishment in Late Renaissance Italy"
• Caleb Siefert (PSYC):  “Emerging Ambivalence Among Emerging Adults: How Interpersonal Ambivalence Impacts College Functioning”
• Pat Smith (ECON): “Does Self-Perceived Weight Influence the Labor Market?”