SparkTalks | Jan. 23, 2025

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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, January 23, 2025
1:30 – 4:45 p.m.

Where:

Student Center West, Thompson Rooms

Registration is now closed. Please contact sparktalks@uic.edu with any questions.

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

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  1. Kimberly Schonert-Reichl | Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Advancing the Science and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning
  2. Teresa Moreno | Book Bans and Censorship: Interrupting the Criminalization of Information
  3. William (Bill) O’Brien | Teaching students how to use the Swiss Army Knife of the business world
  4. Gail Prins | Role of environmental factors in reprogramming human prostate stem cells towards a carcinogenic state
  5. Shanon Reckinger | Inclusive by Design: Scaling Computer Science Education for Every Learner
  6. Thomas Kelley | As-found
  7. Rebecca Woodard | Literacy Teaching for Sustainable Futures
  8. Sobia Bilal, BDS, MSc, PhD | Interprofessional Education; Dentistry is an integral part of health care and COD is an integral part of UI Health
  9. Jose Camacho | How speakers represent how they know something
  10. Judith Cook | Shortening the time from scientific discovery to widespread implementation through community engaged research
  11. Dan Salas | Migrating to a Sustainable Future: Landscape Conservation through the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Agreement
  12. Deborah Carroll | Professionalizing the Public Sector: Illinois’ Certified Public Manager Program
  13. Angela Walden, PhD | Supporting Native American Inclusion in Higher Education: Identity, Sovereignty, and Best Practices
  14. Paul Grippo | Turning the Ship: Addressing Pancreatic Cancer Health Disparities in Basic Research
  15. Richard Gutierrez | Nailing the Coffin Shut on Firearms Examination
  16. Dima Ghunaim, DDS, MS, FACP, FAAMP | Maxillofacial Prosthetics Experience in Advanced Prosthodontics Education
  17. Sarah Martha, PhD, RN | The relationship between lipidomic biomarkers and recovery outcomes following acute ischemic stroke
  1. Hana Hinkle, PhD, MPH | Rural Medicine
  2. Joan Farre-Mensa, PhD | Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape
  3. Kevin Rynn, PharmD, FCCP, DABAT | Rural Focused Interventions to Actively Develop and Train for Rural Pharmacy Careers
  4. David López-García, PhD | Shifts in urban spatial structure of large urban regions and their implications for accessibility to jobs and workers’ quality of life
  5. Annette Johnson | School Social Worker Effectiveness: Retooling and Enhancing Evidence-Based Practice Through Training
  6. Selva Nadarajah | Decision Centered Decarbonization: Empowering Communities to Address Local Emissions Gaps
  7. Benjamin Shaw, PhD, MPH | A formative and participatory evaluation of the city of Chicago’s Health Equity Zones initiative
  8. Alisa Velonis | Moving Beyond Community-Engaged Classrooms
  9. Azadeh Haghighi | New Era of In-Space Manufacturing: When Artificial Intelligence Meets Physics
  10. David Camacho, PhD, MSW, MSG | Older Latino Adults: ¿Dónde estamos?
  11. Shih-Ying Cheng | Breaking Barriers: Culturally Sensitive Services for Asian Immigrant Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence
  12. Sath Allareddy, BDS PhD | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Orthodontics and Craniofacial Health
  13. Joanna Burdette | The role of the fallopian tube in high grade serous cancer
  14. Jennifer Jackson | An Examination of Students’ Needs from 2019-2023: Using Talk-back Boards for Library Programming
  15. Ross Arena | The Ecology of Population Health and Well-Being: A Framework and Perspective
  16. Basmattee Boodram | Risky social spaces and network structures of young people who inject drugs
  17. Jonathan Coloff, PhD | Targeting serine metabolism for cancer therapy

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Complimentary and relocation parking (with a current UIC hang tag) is available in the Wood Street Parking Structure, 1100 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60616 (6 min walk to Student Center West).

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 sparktalks@uic.edu.

Questions or concerns? Please contact our team at sparktalks@uic.edu.

 

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