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:22@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T133000 DTSTAMP:20230713T121532Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/recording-available-hettleman-talk s/ SUMMARY:[Recording Available] Hettleman Talks DESCRIPTION:Enjoy four 15 minute virtual presentations by this year’s rec ipients of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Scholarly Achievement . The talks will provide an engaging look into these distinguished early c areer scholars’ work in the fields of astronomy\, biology\, communicatio ns\, and public health equity.\n\n\n\nHettleman Winners:\n\nNicholas Law\n Nicholas Law researches exoplanets\, planets that orbit stars other than o ur sun. He is an astronomer of international prominence who searches for t he most promising homes of alien life by designing and building entirely n ew classes of telescopes to explore the skies. His group built and deploye d the Evryscopes\, the first gigapixel-scale telescopes able to capture im ages of the entire visible sky every few minutes. He also deployed the fir st terrestrial instrument capable of producing higher resolution images th an the Hubble Space Telescope\, and the first High-Arctic telescope near t he North Pole. Law is now designing the Argus Array\, which is planned to use new cost-reducing technologies to become one of the world’s largest telescopes\, allowing for the first exploration of the entire deep sky at high speed.\n\n“Dr. Law is a star\, and he has excelled at every stage o f his academic career\,” said Christian Iliadis\, former chair of the ph ysics and astronomy department. “He is an exceptional young scientist wh o has made several groundbreaking contributions to a central challenge fac ing humanity — the search for life beyond Earth.”\n\nLaw has a prodigi ous research record\, with a total of 160 publications in top academic jou rnals and over 8500 citations. Since joining Carolina\, he has published 1 01 papers and has won almost every type of NSF and NASA grant available in his fields\, a total of $3.6 million as principal investigator.\n\nLaw re ceived his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Cambridge\, UK\, and undertook postdoctoral training at Caltech and University of Toronto.\ n\n\n\nAlice Marwick\nAlice Marwick is a qualitative communications schola r who uses ethnographic and critical methods to analyze the sociocultural impact of popular digital technologies. She has a three-pronged approach t o her study of social media: understanding identity presentation in online environments\; the implications of social media for individual and collec tive privacy\; and disinformation and its challenges to media practices\, democracy\, and social stability. Additionally\, she is a principal resear cher and co-founder of the UNC Center for Information\, Technology and Pub lic Life. The center looks at the intersection between democracy and emerg ing technologies and was founded by a $5 million grant from the Knight Fou ndation in addition to a $5 million match from UNC-Chapel Hill and $800K f rom the Luminate Group to support the Center\, all awarded to Marwick and three co-PIs.\n\nIn her nomination of Marwick for the prize\, Department o f Communication Professor and Chair Patricia Parker noted that “she has a truly impressive record of groundbreaking scholarship that has secured h er status as one of the leading scholars\, not just in the United States\, but internationally\, on the impacts of social media.”\n\nIn 2017 she c o-authored a flagship report\, “Media Manipulation and Disinformation On line\,” which detailed how a group of subcultural online actors used soc ial media platforms to coordinate and spread news frames and set public ag endas. Marwick is currently researching far-right online radicalization\, supported by an Andrew Carnegie fellowship.\n\nMarwick received her doctor ate from New York University in media\, culture\, and communication. Addit ionally\, she holds a master’s in communication from the University of W ashington and a bachelor’s in political science and women’s studies fr om Wellesley College.\n\n\n\nDaniel Matute\nDaniel Matute’s research exp lores evolutionary biology\, namely how species become and remain distinct \, through broad taxonomic sampling. To do so\, he collects the genus Dros ophila (small fruit flies) from their natural habitat in hybrid zones such as Praslin and La Digue in the Seychelles (known as the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean) and applies an arsenal of molecular\, genetic\, and genomic tools for evaluation. Matute bridges evolutionary theory with modern genom ic analysis and is discovering novel patterns of introgression (gene trans fer) in natural populations.\n\nIn the past five years\, Matute has publis hed 40 peer-reviewed papers\, 31 of which as either the first\, last\, or sole author. In addition to his service to UNC-Chapel Hill\, he has been a substantial contributor to his chief professional society\, the Society f or the Study of Evolution (SSE) where he served as an award committee memb er\, and an elected councilor and chair of the diversity committee.\n\n“ His success reflects his willingness to take on informative\, yet hard\, p rojects in the field or in the lab\,” said Kerry Bloom\, Thad L. Beyle D istinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Biology. “I antici pate that his research program will continue to thrive and expand over the rest of his career.”\n\nMatute earned his doctorate in ecology and evol ution at the University of Chicago. He received his bachelor’s in biolog y and microbiology\, with honors\, from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogot á\, Colombia. \n\n\n\nCleo Samuel-Ryals\nCleo A. Samuel-Ryals is a health services researcher whose research\, teaching\, and service activities de monstrate her steadfast commitment to racial justice and health equity. He r research foci include disentangling the multilevel sources (e.g.\, clini cian bias\, structural racism) of inequities in palliative and supportive cancer care and addressing such inequities through system-level approaches that leverage health informatics tools and community partnerships.\n\nShe is currently the principal investigator of Symptom and Healthcare Access Reporting and Evaluation (SHARE) for Supportive Care Equity\, a five-year National Cancer Institute-funded study focused on understanding and addres sing racial inequities in symptom management among patients with cancer. A s part of the SHARE study\, Samuel-Ryals and her team are analyzing data f rom the UNC Health Registry/Cancer Survivorship Cohort to inform the devel opment of a novel electronic patient-reported outcome tool designed to rou tinely monitor symptoms and symptom-relevant health care access challenges during cancer treatment.\n\n“Samuel-Ryals has a most impressive record of research funding\, peer-reviewed publications\, teaching\, mentoring\, and service\,” said Morris Weinberger\, Vergil N. Slee Distinguished Pro fessor of Healthcare Quality Management and chair of the health and policy management department\, and Stephanie Wheeler\, professor of health polic y and management and associate director of community outreach and engageme nt\, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Her research will not only increase our understanding of health disparities but also guide the devel opment of interventions that improve the lives of cancer patients.”\n\nI n 2019\, Samuel-Ryals was honored as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Heal th by the National Minority Quality Forum and Congressional Black Caucus. In 2020\, she was appointed to serve on the National Cancer Policy Forum w ithin the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine. Sam uel-Ryals is also the Founding Director of the Centering Racial Equity in Data Science (CREDS) Initiative within the UNC Lineberger Cancer Outcomes Research Program.\n\nSamuel-Ryals earned a doctorate in health policy from Harvard University. Additionally\, she holds a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Miami. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/09/hettleman-talks-01.jpg LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/embed/3wRgibTc_BM 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