2021 Research Slam
Join us for the 7th annual CASL Faculty Research Slam
Thursday, October 28 ... 3:00-4:30 p.m. via Zoom webinar. To attend, click on the registration button.
Below is the list of faculty scheduled to present in seven minute formats. Click on presentation titles to view abstracts of the talks.
3:00-3:05: 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: Closing Remarks
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2020 Research Slam
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
Fall 2020 Slam Videos
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
2019 Faculty Research Slam Participants
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