2024
劳拉·克鲁兹博士.D.
Research Professor of Teaching and Learning Scholarship with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台
为什么问为什么? 让本科生的研究充满好奇心
你有没有想过是什么让我们好奇? In this interactive talk, we will explore emerging research on the science of curiosity. 在一起, 我们将考虑好奇心如何(以及为什么)与过去相交, 现在, and future models of both undergraduate research and research universities.
2023
Dr. 迈克尔Mfarej
技术专员，生物科技
“我们梦想，市场决定:给青年十大网赌靠谱网址平台的启示”
2022
Dr. 科里R. 谢勒
Interim Director of 学术事务 Associate Professor of Psychology, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台斯库尔基尔分校
“嫉妒的性别差异:一个大学生研究故事”
2021
Dr. 安妮塔Yuskauskas
十大网赌靠谱网址平台助理教学教授
“作为正式好奇心的研究”
The 现在ation deals with the importance of curiosity and question-asking in research. We will explore the different types of curiosity, and how it has influenced great discoveries. 我们还将探讨好奇心如何影响当前的社会行动主义, 尤其是在Z世代. 最后, we will address how curiosity and research have contributed to my own work in social and health policy.
2019
Dr. 大卫Livert
十大网赌靠谱网址平台心理学副教授
“避免飞锅”, 火焰, and Knives: How a Social Psychologist Studies the Dynamics of Professional Kitchens"
专业厨房可能看起来不像一个典型的工作场所. It is well known for chefs who yell and throw pots; open flames and sharp knives; and the crush of service that throws cooks, waiters and other staff into a mad struggle to get the plate out on time. 压力、冲突和药物滥用是这个行业的通病. Nonetheless, there are striking moments of peace and camaraderie in the kitchen. 作为一名社会心理学家. Livert studies how people’s behavior is shaped by strong social settings; his work has focused on the unique setting of the professional kitchen. He is one of a few social psychologists looking at this topic and will share his insights and research findings.
2018
Dr. 托德Retzlaff
十大网赌靠谱网址平台数学助理教授
随机漫步、反思和直觉
在学习新概念的时候, 或者试图描述我们生活的世界的方方面面, 我们常常依靠直觉. Having a model which makes intuitive sense to us is comforting and “feels right”. There are many instances, however, where our intuition leads us astray. 数学中有几个反直觉的结果, 经济学, and Finance will be discussed as well as what their existence says about the nature of Mathematics, 学习的过程, 并可能在所有领域进行研究.
2017
Dr. Veronica Montecinos
Professor of sociology and coordinator of the Teaching International Program, 宾州州立大学大阿勒格尼分校
“研究各国的政治精英."
The make-up of high-level political elites seems less predictable than in the past. Her talk will examine two historically novel transnational trends: the rise of economists and of women to the heights of political power. Some common factors seem apparent as both trends emerged around the turn of the twenty-first century. Lessons learned in the course of editing two books: Economists in the Americas (2010) and Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies (2017) will be used as a basis for discussion.
2016
Dr. 查尔斯·坎塔卢波
杰出英语教授, 比较文学, 和非洲研究, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台斯库基尔分校
“研究与创造:‘刚果的两个时刻’”
The making or performance of art can depend upon and be inspired by research. 它是艺术创造的基础. 文学, 音乐的, 而视觉艺术家则深入研究, 他们的作品就是他们的发现. 一首诗强化了这一事实, “刚果的两个时刻,唤起艺术, 文学, and world history in a poetic form based on classical Greek and Roman heroic or dactylic hexameter. It is rooted in everyday language and experience within a cultural construct of correspondences not polarities within European, 非洲, 和美国语境.
2015
Dr. Cecelia J. 等压灌装机瓦诺
栗子山学院本科学院院长
“诗意的想象力, Aesthetic Emotion and Building Bridges between the Sciences and Humanities: Lessons from Spain’s Residencia de estudiantes"
The interdisciplinary atmosphere created and fostered in the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, Spain in the early twentieth century produced important research and scholarship across the disciplines and formed some of Spain´s most important intelligentsia. My talk will consider the principles inherent in its founding and the philosophy at work in its day-to-day operations by celebrating the genius of a Residencia faculty member, the scientist Pío del Río-Hortega and one of its most famous residentes, 诗人费德里科García洛尔卡. 我希望展示每一个, in his approach to his craft and in his attitude to the disciplines of others, exemplified the “bridge building” expressed as one of the goals of the Residencia by its founders.
2014
Dr. 舒如提古普塔
Associate Professor of Marketing, Division of Social Sciences, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台 Abington
“尽管零售商店有不道德的做法, 金字塔底层的消费者依然忠诚。”
A growing stream of research under the labels of bottom of pyramid (BoP) and subsistence consumers has increasingly pointed out the market attractiveness of this segment to multinational companies. These poor consumers are individuals who earn approximately $2 per day. The largest BoP market in the world by size of population is in India where according to a 2011 World Bank estimate, 占全国总人口的69%(约1.20亿美元)每天挣2美元. 在这个讲座中，Dr. Gupta explains the nature of widespread unethical retail practices prevalent amongst the neighborhood retail stores (or kirana as they are referred to in India) that serve the BoP consumer, types of patronage behaviors and the reasons why these consumers continue to support the kirana store. The data for this paper comes from a qualitative study conducted with urban poor consumers in India. 采用深度访谈法, 58 urban poor individuals provided detailed accounts of their retail store experiences.
Data analysis shows that kirana stores regularly engage in the four unethical practices: selling outdated products beyond the expiration date of suggested use, 假冒产品, 高昂的代价, withholding the promotional offer and only passing it to the consumer if asked for immediately following the purchase. All study participants were knowledgeable of these practices and viewed it as being “wrong” or unethical. 尽管如此，他们还是继续光顾这家零售商. 在本文中, we provide a detailed account of the different types of patronage behaviors and explain why BoP consumers choose to patronize the kirana store. We believe that there are four reasons why BoP consumers continue to be loyal to the kirana store keeper: revolving interest free store credit, 归属感, sense of lineage and lack of fit with the organized retail store sector such as Big Bazaar, More和Reliance Fresh.
2013
埃里克·博伊德
“Yellowstone National Park: A Window into the Interplay between Geological and Biological Evolution on Earth”
生命起源于年轻的地球.5-3.8 billion years ago (bya), at a time of rampant meteor impact and volcanism. 不久之后, 海洋冷却, 大陆出现又分裂, 生态系统开发, 人属逐渐成熟. 然而，在多细胞生命起源之前~ 1.很久以前，单细胞微生物统治着地球. 这段时间大于2.0 bya window of geological time, both the Earth and its biology evolved significantly, often in step. This dynamic interplay between geological and biological evolution has resulting in a world that is rife with functionally diverse microbial life that is specialized for narrow ecological niches. This 现在ation’s focus will be on the extant volcanic terrain of the Yellowstone hot spot, 它对地理的影响, and its ability to bridge our understanding of the diversification of microbial life through space and time. The extreme variation in the geochemical composition of 现在 day environments is likely to encompass those that were 现在 on early Earth, 当关键的代谢过程(如.g.光合作用)被认为是进化而来的. 黄石国家公园, Wyoming harbors >12,000 geothermal features that vary widely in temperature and geochemical composition, 无论是在空间上还是在时间上. 例如, temperatures in YNP geothermal features range from ambient to 93°C (boiling at elevation of YNP), 热流体的pH值范围从小于1.0 (i.e.，电池酸的pH值)接近10 (i.e., 下水道清洁剂的酸碱度), and dissolved metal concentrations vary by up to six orders of magnitude (i.e.(一百万倍). Such geochemical heterogeneity provides a field laboratory for examining the tendency for organisms to inhabit particular ecological niches and to define the range of geochemical conditions tolerated by that functional guild. 此外, by melding evolutionary analysis of the microbial populations 现在 in each system with detailed geochemical analysis, we can begin to bridge our understanding of the spatial variation of environments with the temporal evolution of biodiversity. We assume that since it is unlikely that a metabolic process emerged under environmental conditions that no longer support that function, such information can provide insight into the characteristics of an environment that enabled the adaptation of microbial life into new habitats.
2012
Dr. 瑞秋一. 布伦南
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台
关于博士的谈话. 瑞秋一. 布伦南最近的作品
目前2.40亿人, 超过地球人口的三分之一, 受到缺水和没有卫生设施的影响. 同样,1.目前全球有60亿人无法获得现代能源.90亿人营养不良. 与此同时, as recycling wastewater into drinking water is becoming a critical necessity in many communities, concern is escalating over the effects of residual endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on aquatic ecosystems and human health. The focus of our work is to critically evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of using decentralized, ecological wastewater treatment systems (or eco-machines) to sustainably address these needs through the incorporation of modular subsystems of EDC-degrading fungi, nutrient-absorbing浮萍, 以及生产生物柴油的藻类, which together will reduce environmental contaminants and convert waste products into valuable resources. 因为生态机器是分散的, 健壮的, 而且操作起来相对简单, they have the potential to solve sanitation problems in developing countries, while simultaneously providing food and energy to those who desperately need it.
2011
Ted Daeschler博士.D.
Associate Curator of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
"Great Steps in the History of Life: Investigating the Origin of Limbed Vertebrates"
Research on the origin of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods) has made great advances in recent decades as a result of new paleontological discoveries. 鱼类向四足动物的转变, 这是传统上的叫法, is no longer an evolutionary leap between free-swimming lobe-finned fish and lumbering tetrapods. A series of fossil intermediates now illustrate the sequence of changes over millions of years in the transformation from finned to limbed members of the tetrapod stem lineage. The interpretation of geological data associated with the fossils has also refined the understanding of the environmental settings that were the crucible of early tetrapod evolution.
Our exploratory efforts led to the discovery and 2006 description of Tiktaalik roseae, 鱼类向四足动物过渡过程中保存完好的中间物种. 提塔利克玫瑰具有原始特征，如鳞片, 鳍射线, 还有原始的上颚和脑壳, yet it is replete with derived features such as a neck and modified skull and fin architecture that were previously only recognized in early tetrapods, 有力地证明了马赛克进化的概念.