BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:64@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T110000 DTSTAMP:20230714T173030Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/cppfd-event-2021/ SUMMARY:[Recording Available] From Humanities to Health Sciences: CPPFD sch olars diversify the talent at Carolina DESCRIPTION:\n\nPlease join us as second year scholars from the Carolina Po stdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity share highlights of their researc h activity. Each scholar will give a short talk which will be followed by a short Q&A session.\n\nModerator:\nTerry Magnuson \nVice Chancellor for R esearch\nKay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor\, De partment of of Genetics\nAs vice chancellor for research\, Terry Magnuson leads a campus-wide research program that attracts more than $1 billion in contract and grant funding annually\; connects academic units across camp us with university priorities\; and manages research support offices as we ll as 13 centers and institutes.\n\nA geneticist who studies chromatin and gene expression in various diseases\, Magnuson joined the UNC School of M edicine in 2000 to create its $245 million-backed genetics and genomics pr ogram. He also directed the pan-campus Carolina Center for Genome Sciences \, developed the Cancer Genetics Program within the Lineberger Comprehensi ve Cancer Center\, and in 2010 was named vice dean for research in the Sch ool of Medicine.\n \n\nPanelists:\nSean Matharoo \nDepartment of Romance S tudies\nSean Matharoo received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from th e University of California\, Riverside. He is a transdisciplinary scholar of French- and English-language speculative literature\, media\, and philo sophy\, which he studies in the contexts of postcolonial studies\, the ene rgy humanities\, and performance studies. As a CPPFD scholar\, he resides within the Department of Romance Studies\, where he will elaborate and upd ate his thesis into a book\, which is provisionally titled The Damned of t he Anthropocene: Performatively Modeling Energy Aesthetics for a New Struc turalism.\n\nKimberly Jenkins \nDepartment of Allied Health Sciences\nKimb erly Jenkins earned her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University\, Bloomington. She received her M.S. and B.S. from UNC-Chapel H ill. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Callier Center fo r Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her genera l research interest is the development of grammar and its intersection wit h cognitive skill in typically and atypically developing\, dual language l earners\, particularly children acquiring Spanish and English.\n\nMusa Man ga \nDepartment of Environmental & Engineering Sciences\nMusa Manga\, earn ed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (majoring in Public Health Engineering)\ , and MSc. Eng. (Distinction) Environmental Engineering and Project Manage ment at the University of Leeds. He also holds a B.Sc. (First Class Honors ) degree in Construction Management from Makerere University. Manga is a S anitation and Environmental Engineer whose research focuses on planning\, monitoring and improvement of sanitation and sludge management practices i n the Global South. His research has an emphasis on pathogen and faecal ha zard tracking in communities\; life-cycle costing of water and sanitation programs\; development\, optimization and application of sustainable human excreta\, wastewater and solid waste management technologies/ strategies to achieve effective pathogen inactivation and resource recovery.\n\nGanga Bey \nDepartment of Epidemiology\nGanga Bey is a post-doctoral fellow in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She has a background in t he social sciences\, majoring in Anthropology and African American Studies at Princeton University before receiving her MPH from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts. As a social epidemiologist\, her work draws on her pass ion for social science\, centering on advancing theoretical frameworks for health disparities research through strengthening the integration of soci al\, social psychological\, and biological approaches in Epidemiologic met hods. These include intersectionality\, social identity\, and geroscientif ic theory.\n\nJulian Rucker \nDepartment of Psychology & Neuroscience\nJul ian Rucker earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow through CPPFD in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He is broadly interested in investigating the psychological factors shaping perceptions of\, and motivations to reduce racial inequal ity across several societal domains. His primary lines of research examine how the lay tendency to associate racism with interpersonal biases or wit h the structural disadvantage of particular racial groups\, influences bel iefs about societal racial inequality. His work also examines perceptions of racial progress in the United States and namely\, the psychological fac tors predicting and influencing vast over-estimates of societal progress t oward Black–White economic equality.\n\nSenay Yitbarek\nDepartment of Bi ology\nSenay Yitbarek received his Ph.D. in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He is a USDA NIFA Fellow and Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow through the Program for Faculty Diversity in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on the community ecology of infe ctious diseases. One particular focus of his research is understanding how microbial interactions are shaped by host population structure. Senay com bines experimental evolution approaches with mathematical modeling. Before joining UNC-Chapel Hill\, Senay was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is the current President o f the Black Ecologists organization in the Ecological Society of America.\ n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/11/CPPFD-event.jpg LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/embed/e_4K6t7IQNI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR