The CUNY ASRC is designed to inspire and enable interdisciplinary research that brings together scientists from across CUNY’s 25 campuses and beyond to create solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
As we mark our fifth year of work, we invite fellow faculty, staff, and students from across CUNY and beyond to join us in exploring what we’ve accomplished together to advance interdisciplinary research, and how it can be used as a vehicle to move us forward.
Joining us for special talks are world-renown physicist and engineer Nader Engheta and cancer biologist and Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus. Also hear from the following CUNY researchers who have demonstrated excellence in interdisciplinary research:
- Xi Chen, Nanoscience Initiative, CUNY ASRC & Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
- Jean Gaffney, Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College
- Carmen Melendez-Vasquez, Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College
- William Solecki, Department of Geography and Environmental Science & Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College
Please register to attend in-person or via livestream.
Postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students are also invited present their work during our lunchtime interdisciplinary poster session. Separate sign-up is required here.
Schedule
| 11:30 a.m | Welcome Remarks Annette “Nina” C. Gray Associate Dean for the Sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY Executive Director, CUNY ASRC |
| 11:45 a.m. | Nader Engheta University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering An Interdisciplinary Journey with Waves and Matters Introduction by Andrea Alu, Director, Photonics Initiative, CUNY ASRC Professor, Department of Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| 12:45 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch and Interdisciplinary Poster Session Undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs are invited to present their work. Separate sign-up is required here. Also meet staff from the ASRC, The Graduate Center Admissions Office, the CUNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program (CSURP), and our event sponsors. Take a tour of our core facilities and visitor’s center, the ASRC IlluminationSpace. Tours will depart from the main ASRC lobby at 1:15 p.m |
| 2:00 p.m. | Xi Chen Nanoscience Initiative, CUNY ASRC Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York Interdisciplinary Research Promotes Evaporation Energy Harvesting Technique |
| 2:15 p.m. | Jean Gaffney Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College Discovering Novel Fluorescent and Bioluminescent Systems in Marine Organisms |
| 2:30 p.m. | Harold Varmus Weill Cornell Medicine What does it take to answer scientific questions? Introduction by Kevin Gardner Director, Structural Biology Initiative, CUNY ASRC Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, City College of New York |
| 3:30 p.m. | William Solecki Department of Geography and Environmental Science & Institute for Sustainable Cities, Hunter College Interdisciplinary Research in Urban Climate Research: Some Reflections |
| 3:45 p.m. | Carmen Melendez-Vasquez Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College Mechanobiology of Myelin Formation and Repair |
| 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks Joshua Brumberg Dean for the Sciences, The Graduate Center, CUNY |
For more information about the ASRC’s fifth anniversary celebration, please visit our website.
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