SparkTalks | Feb. 1, 2024

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What:

Igniting the thoughts and solutions of influential UIC changemakers to inspire and create a better world.

  • 36 presenters
  • 3-minute talks
  • 2 hours of inspiration

When:

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Where:

Student Center East,
Illinois Rooms A, B and C

RSVPs are closed at this time and no additional RSVPs will be accepted.

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1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Chancellor's Welcome
SparkTalks Round 1 (See below for the order of presentations!)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m Break
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. SparkTalks Round 2 (See below for the order of presentations!)
Closing Remarks
3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Reception

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  1. Decoteau J. Irby, PhD | Five Organizational Conditions to Advance Racial Equity
  2. Meenakshy Aiyer, MD, MACP, MHPE | External Clinical Partnerships in Peoria
  3. Salman Khetani, PhD | Tissues for Drug Development and Regenerative Medicine
  4. Kathryn Bocanegra, PhD, LCSW | Responding to Group-Based Violence Through an Addictions Framework
  5. Rachel Weber, PhD | Sweet Relief? How Homestead Exemptions Affect Property Taxes in Cook County
  6. Ana Bedran-Russo DDS, MS, PhD | Bioinspired Strategies for Development of Functional Biomaterials
  7. Lisa Powell, PhD | Fiscal Policies for Health
  8. Brian T. Murphy, PhD | Partnering with the Boys & Girls Club of Chicago to Discover New Antibiotics
  9. Tanera Marshall, MFA | Body and Soul: Storytelling in Accents
  10. David Marquez, PhD | Moving in a Culturally Relevant Way
  11. Jung Mi Scoulas, PhD | Rethinking Student Success Metrics: Insights from Undergraduate Students
  12. Tessa Bonney, PhD | Starting Strong: The School of Public Health’s SPH Success Program
  13. Terrion Williamson, PhD | Black Struggle, Power, and Resistance within the Greater Midwest
  14. Olga Garcia-Bedoya, MD, FACP on behalf of Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD | Population Health Research Initiatives at the UIC Institute for Minority Health Research 
  15. Paul Lewis, JD | Ethics and Economics in Judicial Decision Making: The Case of Insolvency Litigation Funding
  16. Catherine Main, MEd | Transforming Early Childhood Education through an Alternative Licensure Program
  17. Russell Hemley, PhD | Revolutionary Materials from Extreme Conditions
  1. Barbara Ransby, PhD | Why Engaged Scholarship is So Important to the Mission of UIC and What That Work Looks Like on Our Campus in 2024
  2. Moontae Lee, PhD, MS | The Art of Generative AI
  3. Jennie Jarrett, PharmD, MMedEd, BCACP, FCCP & Abigail Elmes, PharmD, MHPE, BCPS | Meeting Patients Where They Are: An Innovative Mobile Harm Reduction and Medication-Assisted Recovery Program To Mitigate The Opioid Overdose Epidemic
  4. Ruixuan Gao, PhD | A Biochemical Approach Towards Unlocking the Molecular Complexity of Life
  5. Miiri Kotche, PhD | Creativity and Interdisciplinarity
  6. Dermot Murphy, PhD | Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance
  7. Gholdy Muhammad, PhD | Cultivating Genius, Justice and Joy in Education
  8. Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD | Mechanosurveillance in Cancer Metastasis
  9. Orly Lazarov, PhD | Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease
  10. Sanjib Basu, PhD | Integration of Hyperlocal Health Indicators in Multimodal Data Science
  11. Tanvi Bhatt, PhD, MS, PT | Are Falls Inevitable or Preventable?
  12. Brenikki Floyd, PhD, MPH | Collaboratory for Health Justice
  13. Scott Tomar, DMD, DrPH | UIC College of Dentistry Is a Major Provider of Community-based Oral Health Outreach, Prevention and Treatment Services
  14. Sara Beeler, PhD, LCSW, MPA | Building Equitable and Responsive Systems of Care for Persons who use Drugs and Alcohol
  15. Michael Seng, JD | The UIC Restorative Justice Project
  16. Shannon Halloway, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA | Preventing Cognitive Impairment in At-risk Older Adults: Developing and Testing Lifestyle Interventions
  17. Michael Papka, PhD | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000: Quintillion Calculations Catalyzing Change
  18. John Finan, PhD | Traumatic Brain Injury in a Dish

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Complimentary and relocation parking (with a current UIC Hang Tag) is available in the Halsted Street Parking Structure (HLPS).
Enter off Taylor Street, 760 W. Taylor Street and pull a ticket upon entering the parking structure.
Complimentary parking coupons will be available at the event check-in.

When guests arrive, signs and staff will be present to help individuals toward the check-in table.

All guests will be required to register in advance and will be asked to check in upon arrival.

CART captions will be provided. Should you require additional accommodations to participate, please contact provost@uic.edu.

Questions or concerns? Please contact Judee Olechno, judee@uic.edu, or Tyler Nielsen, pniels2@uic.edu.

 

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