November 7, 2025
Clayton University Center
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9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Nathan Urban | Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs |
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Faculty lightning talks | ||
“Making Meaning out of Crisis: Mixed-Methods Investigation into the Framing Processes During the COVID-19 Pandemic” | Haiyan Jia | Associate Professor, Journalism | |
“Real-Time SCADA Resilience Assessment and Enhancement Platform” | Javad Khazaei | Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
“From Garbage to Gardens: Community Based Participatory Research for Local Impact” | Kate Jackson | Assistant Professor, Community and Global Health | |
“The Development and Evaluation of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Agent: MathPal” | Zilong Pan | Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning, and Technology | |
“The Political Geography of the Suburbs” | Ziad Munson | Professor, Sociology | |
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break | ||
10:45 - 11:30 a.m. | Faculty lightning talks | ||
“Label Uncertainty and Socially Responsible Market Behavior” | Felipe A. Araujo | Assistant Professor, Economics | |
“Transforming Bone Fracture Care Through Virtual Mechanical Testing” | Hannah Dailey | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics | |
“Probing Nuclear Matter at Extreme Temperatures with sPHENIX” | Anders Knospe | Assistant Professor, Physics | |
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Luncheon for invited guests and faculty speakers | Presentations by: | Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions |
1:00 - 2:45 p.m. | Faculty lightning talks | ||
“Educating Against the Odds: Narratives of Teaching, Race, and Community Through AI-Supported Qualitative Analysis” | Floyd Beachum | Bennett Professor of Urban School Leadership | |
“Enhancing CRISPR Strategies for Precision Musculoskeletal Regeneration via Deep Learning and Biomaterials Engineering” | Tomas Gonzalez-Fernandez | Assistant Professor, Bioengineering | |
“What Canopy Plants Can Teach Us About Our Changing World” | Michelle Elise Spicer | Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences | |
“Quantum Computing Optimization at Lehigh University” | Luis Zuluaga | Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering | |
“Rhetorics of the Wager” | Brooke Rollins | Associate Professor, English | |
“Social Networks, Adaptation, and Addiction: A Systems View of Public Health Resilience” | Hsuan-Wei "Wayne" Lee | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Health Data Science | |
“Considering the Relationship Between Design and Technology” | Jenny Kowalski | Assistant Professor, Art, Architecture, and Design | |
2:45 p.m. | Conclusion of symposium | ||
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Reception celebrating R1 status |
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