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:14@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T160000 DTSTAMP:20230712T194956Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/recording-available-postdoctoral-a wards-for-research-excellence/ SUMMARY:[Recording Available] Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual p ostdoctoral scholars. The awards are open to postdoctoral scholars in all disciplines and are designed to assist postdoctoral scholars in their cont inued professional development by supporting the recipients in conference travel\, purchasing books\, or engaging in other scholarly activities that directly enhance the individual’s professional growth.\n\n\n\n2021 Post doctoral Scholar Award for Research Excellence recipients:\n\nMeet this ye ar's winners as they each provide a presentation on their research activit y.\n\n\nLi Ke\nLi Ke is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Education at UNC. His research centers around promoting meaningful scienc e learning for all learners\, including those from culturally and linguist ically diverse populations. In particular\, he is interested in how teache rs can support students in engaging in scientific practices such as scient ific modeling in ways that are meaningful to the discipline of science and students’ everyday lives. Li Ke is a co-principal investigator on a $1. 9 million National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at developing i nstructional materials using scientific modeling to teach about viral pand emics. He leads development of research instruments around modeling and co ordinates efforts to ensure that the developed instructional materials are supportive of and responsive to emerging multilingual learners.\n\n\nRebe cca Krupenevich\nRebecca Krupenevich is a postdoctoral fellow in the UNC A pplied Biomechanics Lab in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. Krupenevich earned her PhD in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland w here she investigated age-related differences in walking biomechanics. Her current research focuses on how changes in foot musculoskeletal structure and function contribute to impaired mobility in older adults. Her researc h will increase our understanding of neuromechanical mechanisms underlying age-related mobility impairment to support improving the health and welfa re of our aging population. Krupenevich is funded by a National Research S ervice Award (NRSA F32) from the National Institute on Aging.\n\n\nZhenyi Ni\nZhenyi Ni is a postdoctoral researcher in Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distingui shed Professor Jinsong Huang’s group at the department of Applied Physic al Sciences at UNC. Ni earned his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University. His current search focuses exploring highly effic ient and long-term stable metal halide perovskite solar cells for the harn ess of solar energy to make the renewable energy much cheaper and reduce e lectric bills for the whole world\, from understanding the fundamental mat erial and device physics which correlates the merits of solar cells with m aterial properties. Results from his research will push the solar energy c onversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells to its limit and make the r enewable solar energy affordable for everyone.\n\n\nKai Wang\nKai Wang is a postdoctoral research associate in Zongchao Han’s Lab at the Departmen t of Ophthalmology. His current research focuses on biomaterials facilitat ed gene and cell therapy of ophthalmic diseases\, including age-related di seases\, pediatric cancers\, and inherited diseases. His research allows f or the treatment of these diseases previously perceived as untreatable. Th e research outcome has been published in prestigious journals such as Natu re Cancer\, Advanced Functional Materials\, ACS Nano\, Journal of Controll ed Release\, etc. Wang also obtains Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in G ene Therapy from NCbiotech-Pfizer and other awards. His research in immune cell therapy of retinoblastoma is going to clinical trial\, and non-immun ogenic gene therapy viral vectors are becoming intellectual properties at UNC.\n\n\nJessica C. Young\nJessica C. Young\, PhD is a pharmacoepidemiolo gist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Servi ces Research. Her overarching goal is to develop methods for leveraging ob servational data to conduct timely research improving public health. Young earned her PhD in Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Publi c Health where she used linked electronic medical records and insurance cl aims data to examine opioid prescribing for post-surgical pain and the ris k of prolonged postoperative opioid use. She is currently funded by the Ag ency of Healthcare Research and Quality\, and her work focuses on developi ng methods to combat challenges inherent in using large data\, increasing the capability for large health systems to evolve their practice using evi dence-based research\, ultimately delivering higher-quality care to their patients. Prior to coming to UNC\, Jessica worked as a Policy Analyst at a non-profit public policy firm and received a B.A. in Mathematics from Emo ry University. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2021/10/pare-2021-group.jpg LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/embed/1NuKjb67EhM 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