Set One: 11:00am-11:40am
Faculty House, 2nd and 3rd Floors
Chair and Moderator: Lucia Dec-Prat, Columbia University
Speaker 1: Ishita Khurana (Brown University), “Background and Epidemiology of Rural Trauma in Nepal”
Speaker 2: Kamala Karuppiah (Cornell University), “Unlocking Potential: Redefining Diversity and Inclusion for Doctors with Disabilities in Global Healthcare”
Speaker 3: Xiyue Pan (The University of Hong Kong), “Evaluating the Abundance of Cross-reactive Influenza Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase-targeted Memory B Cells”
Speaker 4: Nikita Bhat (Tufts University), “Revolutionizing Diabetes and Obesity Treatment: Affordable Therapeutic Solutions with Pepducins”
Chair and Moderator: Emily Shami Sher, Barnard College
Speaker 1: Sophia Medzoyan (Barnard College), “Blockade as Reproductive Violence: A Qualitative Investigation into the Reproductive and Maternal Health-Related Experiences of Artsakhtsi Women Under Blockade”
Speaker 2: Priyanka Mathews (Columbia University), “Assessing Urinary Proteins as Diagnostic Markers for Preeclampsia”
Speaker 3: Armita Jamshidi (Cornell University), “Evaluating the Efficacy of 'Cramp Bites' in Alleviating Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Pilot Clinical Trial”
Speaker 4: Cyntia Roig (Brown University), “Reproductive Justice: Community and Academic Engagement in Rhode Island and at Brown University”
Chair and Moderator: Nina Kornfeld, Columbia University
Speaker 1: Anna Chen (Columbia University), “The Future of Our Blue Planet: A Seasonal and Geospatial Analysis on Geochemical Ocean Conditions in Areas with High Marine Phytoplankton Productivity”
Speaker 2: Vivian Yellen (Cornell University), “Governing ‘White Gold’ during a ‘Pink Tide’: The Political Economy of Chile’s National Lithium Strategy”
Speaker 3: Felicia Gan (The University of Hong Kong), “Nabokov's Butterflies: The Literary, Philosophical, and Scientific”
Speaker 4: Nathan Li (University of Toronto), “Climate, Colonialism, Conspiracy, Catastrophe: Understanding Indigenous Insights on Systemic Challenges in Hawaii through the Lahaina Wildfire”
Chair and Moderator: Kirsten Trevino, Barnard College
Speaker 1: Sabrina Gulotty (Barnard College), “The Myth of Feminist Makeup: Three Case Studies on Feminist Consumerism in Cosmetics Marketing”
Speaker 2: Claire Auslander (Georgetown University), “The Contraceptive Covenant: Examining The Relationship Between State Religiosity and Contraceptive Policy for Insured Dependents”
Speaker 3: Benjamin Leynse (Cornell University), “In The Name of Peace: Unpacking the Contention Around ‘Crimes against Peace’”
Speaker 4: Youness Robert-Tahiri (University of Toronto), “LiA, The Universal Healing Power of Laughter: Designing and Implementing a Comedy-based Psychosocial Intervention for Orphaned, Abandoned, and Precariously Housed Teenagers Living at an NGO in Cape Town, South Africa”
Set Two: 11:55am-12:35pm
Faculty House, 2nd and 3rd Floors
Chair and Moderator: Shay Stulman, Barnard College
Speaker 1: Reese Taylor (Barnard College), “Labor as Liberation: The Redefining of Worth and Work in the Era of Reconstruction”
Speaker 2: Andre Albrecht (Georgetown University), “Lights, Camera, Adaptation! Redefining Arthouse Cinema in the Era of Digital Dominance, Cinema Chains, and Blockbuster Behemoths”
Speaker 3: Bavan Pushpalingam (University of Toronto), “LiA Seeds of Systems-Change: Grassroots Community Mobilization for Sustainable Food Security and Sovereignty through Women- and Youth-Led Policy Advocacy in Northern Ghana”
Speaker 4: Isabel Iino (Barnard College), “Voodoo Doctors in Harlem between 1920-1936”
Chair and Moderator: Liza Paudel, Columbia University
Speaker 1: Anh Ngo (Tufts University), “Examining the Correlation between Psychopathological Symptoms and Urinary Dysfunction in Autistic Adults”
Speaker 2: Mridula Sathyanarayanan (University of Toronto), “LiA: A Trip to a Museum of Meditation”
Speaker 3: Talia Zamir (Georgetown University), “Information and Support Needs of Mothers At-Risk for and Surviving with Breast/Ovarian Cancer: The Role of Patient Navigation in Health Outcomes”
Speaker 4: Adira Altman (Brown University), "Investigating the Intersection between Covid-19, Anti-Asian Violence, and Filipinx/a/o Mental Health"
Chair and Moderator: Parisa Harvey, Barnard College
Speaker 1: Kalie Minor (Brown University), “Strategizing Solutions to End Youth Homelessness in Rhode Island”
Speaker 2: Seng Ying Amber Wong (The University of Hong Kong), “Reading Through Gaming in Primary School – A Pilot Study”
Speaker 3: Sandy Nguyen (Tufts University), “The Impact of Maternal Dietary Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) on Early Child Anthropometry”
Speaker 4: Tatum Hubble (Columbia University), “Key Clinical Factors Influencing Competitive Athletic Restrictions in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”
Chair and Moderator: Tara Lago, Columbia University
Speaker 1: Amy Lum (Georgetown University), “Generation of Galectin-3-Binding Protein (LG3BP) F357W Mutant as a Crucial Resource for Characterization of Sulf-2/LG3BP Interaction”
Speaker 2: Manan Vij (Columbia University), “Advancing Cellular Gene Expression Analysis: Comparing Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing with Traditional Single-Cell Methods in Biological Research”
Speaker 3: Neha Gupta (University of Toronto), “Systematic Review of Available Psychosocial Support for Pediatric Oncology Patients in Nations with Universal Healthcare Coverage”
Speaker 4: Abo Obhakhan (Trinity College Dublin), “The Impact of Superimposed Acute Systemic Inflammation on Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models”