The Graduate School is delighted to host Research Matters: Celebrating New Ideas and Discoveries. Research Matters bolsters intellectual exchange among graduate students, offering a public forum for presenting research and developing presentation skills.
With short talks aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, Research Matters showcases exceptional graduate student scholarship taking place at Brown. The first Research Matters event in September 2014 was part of Brown’s 250th Anniversary Fall Celebration.
Each year, we continue this tradition of celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of our graduate students. We are delighted to showcase the ways graduate students are contributing to the academic excellence and advancement of knowledge that makes Brown unique and bold.
Our speakers range across disciplines and stages of graduate study at Brown, from chemistry to English to mathematics to public health. They include students at the beginning of their studies and those about to receive their degrees. After a general call for nominations, our student speakers were selected from among 20 semifinalists to present their research today.
Our speakers are eager to showcase their research with the broader community.
We hope you enjoy the talks!
Schedule
INTRODUCTIONS 4-4:15 P.M.
Vanessa Ryan Organizer and Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School
Thomas A. Lewis Dean, Graduate School
TALKS: SESSION ONE 4:15-5 P.M.
Amanda Ruiz
Parasites, Poverty, and Pathology: Insights Into Schistosome Immune Evasion Strategies
Goutam Piduri
Owning Poverty: Non-Possessive Empire in the 17th Century
Jason Xinyu Liu
AI, Robots, and Human Language
Alexander Brown
Combating Prostate Cancer With a Theragnostic Approach
Jawaher Al-Shamari
Women’s Lived Experiences and Policy in Qatar
BREAK 5-5:15 P.M.
TALKS: SESSION TWO 5:15-6 P.M.
Peter Van Katwyk
Understanding and Improving Sea Level Projections with AI
Harley Elias
Performing Plague
Kevin Hu
Structure and Complexity in High-Dimensional Systems
Munachimso Ugoh
The Interplay Between E-Cigarettes and Traditional Cigarettes
Karyn Mota
Unpacking the Pages: Symbolic Reparations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Alexia Rojas
Lead Absorption in Zeolites and Community Science