SCHOLARTalks

There is awe-inspiring research taking place at Columbia every day! Join us to celebrate this research and connect with your Columbia peers at SCHOLARTalks, an inaugural lightning talks program to highlight emerging faculty and scholar voices in research across all disciplines at Columbia University.

The lightning talks will take place on Monday, April 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Butler Library, room 523, followed by Q&A and a networking reception. The event will feature presentations by Wei Cai, Alissa Davis, Nicholas Deas, Chloé Samala Faux, Howard Nicholson, Edward Owusu-Ansah, Andrew Paige, Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia, Joshua Taliaferro, and Vidhu Thaker.

Please RSVP for SCHOLARTalks here.

Program:

Edward Owusu-Ansah (Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)
Regulation of Mitochondrial Complex I Assembly in Drosophila Melanogaster

Joshua Taliaferro (MD/PhD Candidate, Neurobiology and Behavior)
It Takes a Team: The Dynamic Neurological Basis of Working Memory

Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
“The Work Which Becomes a New Genre Itself”: A Case Study of Black Representations and Interactions within Contemporary Japanese Anime

Andrew Paige (PhD Candidate, Biological Sciences)
Hijacking Mosquito Mating Behaviors to Control Disease Transmission

Alissa Davis (Associate Professor of Social Work)
Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults to Develop a Digital HIV Stigma Reduction Intervention Using Crowdsourcing

Nicholas Deas (PhD Candidate, Computer Science)
African American Language in Large Language Models

Vidhu Thaker (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)
Zebras, Horses, Diversity and Biology 

Chloé Samala Faux (PhD Candidate, Anthropology)
Femicide

Howard Nicholson (PhD Candidate, Biomedical Engineering)
Contribution of Blood Components to Cell Death in ACL Injury Through Ferroptotic Mechanisms

Wei Cai (Assistant Professor of Business)
Culture Fit System: How to Measure and Manage Culture through Employee Selection

If you have questions, please contact facultyadvancement@columbia.edu.