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:206@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T170000 DTSTAMP:20231017T185021Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/hettleman-talks-2023/ SUMMARY:Hettleman Talks DESCRIPTION:Enjoy five 15 minute presentations by this year’s recipients of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Scholarly Achievement. The ta lks will provide an engaging look into these distinguished early career sc holars’ work.\n\nThe late Phillip Hettleman\, a member of the Carolina c lass of 1921\, and his wife Ruth established their prestigious named award in 1986 to recognize the achievements of outstanding junior faculty. The recipients of the $8\,000 prize will be recognized at an upcoming Faculty Council Meeting.\n\nThis is an in-person event.\n\nClick Here to Register for this Event\n\nHettleman 2023 Winners:\nYaiza Canzani\nYaiza Canzani’ s research focuses on understanding the behavior of Laplace eigenfunctions \, which play a crucial role in explaining physical phenomena such as wave propagation\, heat conduction\, acoustics and quantum evolution. \n\nCan zani’s work bridges microlocal analysis\, partial differential equations \, probability\, geometry\, and dynamical systems. Her scholarship is inte rnationally recognized — she was awarded a Sloan Fellowship\, the Sadosk y Research Prize in Analysis\, and a National Science Foundation CAREER gr ant. \n\nIn his nomination letter for Canzani\, Bowman and Gordon Gray Dis tinguished Term Professor of Mathematics Jason Metcalfe says\, “Within a n extremely active and competitive field of mathematics Canzani is develop ing transformative tools that will have an immense and long-lasting impact . She is obtaining historic results and is an elite scholar whose promise for discovery cannot be exceeded.” \n\nOver the past several years\, Can zani developed a research program that aims to describe how Laplace eigenf unctions concentrate near a given point by understanding how they behave w hen localized to tubes centered along the geodesics that run through the p oint. \n\nCanzani received her doctorate from McGill University. She was a Benjamin Peirce Fellow at Harvard University and a member of the Institut e for Advanced Study. \n\n\n\nBrian Conlon\nBrian Conlon is a leader in th e field of antibiotic resistance and focuses on alternative strategies to treating infections with existing antibiotics. He aims to make previously ineffective treatments work better by manipulating how the treatment is de livered on a microbial level and reversing resistance by tricking the bact eria into responding to medication. \n\nConlon also researches how diabete s impacts treatment for antimicrobial resistance\, and how to make the bat tleground inside someone’s body more hospitable to treatment by pairing an antibiotic with another drug. \n\n“His finding that innate immune cel ls can inhibit antibiotic activity is a major discovery and paves the way for the future development of therapeutics to augment the immune response and make antibiotics work better in patients\,” says Craig Cameron\, pro fessor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology\, in his nomination letter for Conlon. \n\nAs a postdoctoral researcher Conlon pub lished nine papers and his work appeared in the journals Nature and Nature Microbiology. Since establishing his lab at Carolina in 2016\, Conlon has published 17 papers in journals including PLoS Biology\, Cell Chemical Bi ology\, eLife\, and Nature Microbiology. His work has also led to two pate nts that promise to form the basis of novel therapeutic developments. \n\n Conlon earned a doctorate in microbiology from University College Dublin a nd completed postdoctoral training at the Antimicrobial Discovery Center a t Northeastern University.\n\n\n\nAngel Hsu\nAngel Hsu applies data-driven approaches to evaluate climate and environmental policy\, primarily at th e state and local levels. She leads The Data-Driven EnviroLab\, frequently calling upon others from different disciplines to collaborate on research . \n\nCollectively\, her work has been influential in shaping the research agenda among those studying global climate governance and developing the quantitative approaches used to assess the impact and performance of subna tional and non-state actors. \n\nIn his nomination letter for Hsu\, Danie l P. Gitterman\, Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy\, says\, “Hsu has made important theoretical\, substantive \, and methodological contributions to climate policy. Her research is hig hly visible and influential\, and her trajectory and future promise are hi ghly positive. Her contributions to research\, teaching and service at Car olina are exemplary.” \n\nHsu’s work has been published in several lea ding journals\, including Nature\, Environmental Research Letters\, and Cl imate Policy\, contributing novel research in ways that are indicative of her status as a leading scholar in global environmental policy and her eng agement in timely policy debates. \n\nHsu earned an MPhil in environmental policy from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in environmental policy from the Yale School of Environment. Following her PhD\, she served for two years as a postdoctoral associate with the Urbanization and Globa l Change Group at Yale University. \n\n\n\nPengda Liu\nPengda Liu studies cancer biology and the molecular mechanisms underlying aberrant cell signa ling events in human cancer. He is using this knowledge to develop novel a nti-cancer therapies. \n\nHe has established a highly productive lab at UN C-Chapel Hill as an independent and collaborative investigator. Both style s of research have led to ground-breaking discoveries and to highly cited articles. Liu has an innovative approach\, melding bioengineering expertis e with hi-tech biochemistry\, cell biology\, genetics\, and applying this to drug development. His lab focuses on two key cellular signaling pathway s that can lead to disease and cancer when mutated. \n\nIn her nomination letter for Liu\, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry an d Biophysics Jean Cook says\, “Liu has made seminal discoveries\, and hi s research has great promise for future clinical advances. We believe that he represents the best in research\, mentoring\, teaching\, and service t hat the School of Medicine has to offer.” \n\nHis postdoctoral work was published in high-impact journals\, including Nature\, Cancer Discovery\, Nature Cell Biology\, and Molecular Cell. In his seven years at Carolina\, Liu has published 24 original research articles\, seven review articles a nd one book chapter. \n\nLiu earned his doctoral degree from East Carolina University and completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. \n\n \n\nAlex Worsnip\nAlex Worsnip’s research of epistemology — the theory of knowledge — has made groundbreaking advances in the understanding of the nature of rationality. He proposes that there are two fundamentally d istinct kinds of rationality — substantive and structural — with neith er being reducible to the other\, which has fascinating motivations and pr ofound payoffs. \n\nWorsnip made these advances in his field through a ser ies of widely acclaimed articles published in top philosophy journals incl uding the Journal of Philosophy\, Mind\, and Ethics. His work on rationali ty culminated in a book\, “Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the De mands of Structural Rationality\,” which was published by Oxford Univers ity Press in 2021. He also won the prestigious Young Epistemologist Prize from Rutgers University in 2019. \n\n“Worsnip’s work has received a gr eat deal of attention from other philosophers\, including significant and widespread attention in articles appearing even before Worsnip’s own pap er had appeared in print\,” says Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Marc Lange in his nomination letter for Worsnip. \n\nWorsnip ’s most recent and current research concerns the application of epistemo logy to social and political issues\, with particular attention to the epi stemic responsibilities of ordinary citizens in a democracy. For example\, he has argued that being an epistemically responsible participant in demo cratic deliberation requires consuming news from sources of different poli tically partisan affiliations. Since 2022\, he has been director of the Ap plied Epistemology Project at UNC. \n\nWorsnip earned a BPhil in philosoph y from the University of Oxford and his doctorate from Yale University. He completed postdoctoral training at New York University. \n\nClick Here to Learn More About the Hettleman Prizes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/09/hettleman-talks-01.jpg CATEGORIES:In-person Event,Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research LOCATION:Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium\, 325 Pittsboro St\, Chapel Hill\, N orth Carolina\, 27516\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=325 Pittsboro St\, Chapel H ill\, North Carolina\, 27516\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Ta te-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR