Faculty Showcase

When

4 p.m., Sept. 26, 2019 to April 9, 2020

Faculty members from all corners of the campus will give presentations highlighting the extraordinary research and creative activity of our colleagues.

Thursdays at 4-5 pm in the Student Union Memorial Center, 3rd level, Arizona Room.

September 26   Dr. Christopher Impey
Communicating Science in the Age of Fake News
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October 3   Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton
Innovations in Brain Science of the Future for Those Who Need a Cure Today
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October 10   Dr. Danny Gurwin
New World: Jewish Writers in the American Musical Theatre, A Lecture in Song (concert)

October 17   Professor Kate Bernheimer
Recognizing Fairy Tales, Recognizing Ourselves (lecture and reading)
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November 7   Dr. Michael Worobey
From Patient Zero to the 1918 Flu: Viral Clues to Pandemic Origins
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November 14   Dr. Armin Sorooshian
Clouds on the Horizon: An Engineering Grand Challenge in the Atmosphere
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November 21   Dr. Nolan Cabrera
White Immunity: Working Through the Pedagogical Pitfalls of 'Privilege'
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December 5   Dr. Nino Bakradze, Dr. Fanya Lin and Dr. Daniel Linder
Dancing on the Keyboard: Piano Music for Two Hands, Four Hands, and Six Hands (concert)
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February 6   Dr. Melissa Fitch        
I Don’t Want to Be a Part of Your Revolution if I Can’t Dance: Tango and Social Justice (with tango demos)
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February 13   Professor Sama Alshaibi    
Staging the Imagined
 
February 20   Dr. Kacey Ernst        
Mosquito-borne Diseases in the Anthropocene: What are the risks and how do we adapt?
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February 27   Professor Christopher Robertson      
Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It?
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POSTPONED: March 19   Professor Len Necefer 
Outdoor Media: A powerful tool to inspire learning & supercharge academia for action on climate change

POSTPONED: March 26   Professor Courtney Crosson 
Retrofitting Cities Toward a Net Zero Water Future: Collaborating with Municipal Agencies and Public Adopters to Design and Implement Adaptive Solutions

POSTPONED: April 2   Professors Tim Kantor, Molly Gebrian, Ted Buchholz and Tannis Gibson        
Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano: A chamber music concert featuring Music of Spain

POSTPONED: April 9   Dr. Dan Marrone
Black Hole Photography with the Event Horizon Telescope