Welcome to the WOWTALK past events page! Here we have links to previous WOWTALK speakers, their talk titles and abstracts. Additionally, we have links to the recording of the talks. The talks are grouped based on school year ( August 01 - May 30th) and then separated by dates.
| March 06 2024 | Megan Leftwich Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Marie Price Geography & International Affairs _____ Jameta Barlow University Writing Program | Biomechanical studies of human birth _____ Changing sources, changing courses: Shifting migrant flows in the Rio Grande Valley on the US/Mexican Border _____ Reclaiming Blackgirls' and Women's Health When Women & Our Health Is Under Attack | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| January 31 2024 | Richard Ricciardi Center for Health Policy & Media Management, Nursing _____ Cynthia Dowd Chemistry _____ Andrew Thompson Political Science | Navigating a Path to Universal Helathcare _____ MEPicides as Promising Antimicrobials _____ The Big Flip: Racial Demographic Change and the Future of Democracy in America | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| December 06 2023 | Saniya Leblanc Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ David Szakonyi Political Science _____ Sarah Shomstein Psychological & Brain Sciences | Improving Energy Efficiency from Atoms to Cities _____ The End of Londongrad? The impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency on Offshore Investment in UK Property _____ What You See is Not What You Perceive: Mechanisms of Selective Attention | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| October 11 2023 | Leon Grayfer Biological Studies _____ Moses Kansanga Geography & International Affairs _____ Nan Wu Electrical Engineering | Only skin deep: amphibian mast cells serve as barriers to deadly chytrid fungus infections. _____ Time matters: Understanding seasonal food insecurity in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. _____ Let AI Revolutionize Next-Generation Computer Design! | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| September 06 2023 | Michael Doering Physics _____ Gina Adam Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Janet Lewis Political Science | Three particles forming matter: the quest to understand strong interactions _____ Brain- inspired hardware for AI: from materials to systems _____ How rural networks shape intergroup conflict in Africa | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| April 19 2023 | Daniel Goldberg Environmental & Occupational Health _____ Carly Jordan Biological Studies _____ Robert Orttung Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies | Visualizing air and Climate pollution from Space _____ Inclusive undergrad research opportunities using digital data _____ Will the Green Economic transition in Norther Sweden be just? | Video of Presentations Website |
| February 15 2023 | Catherine Arsenault Global Health _____ Alexander van der Horst Physics | Covid under-vaccination in the US, Italy and Mexico: preliminary findings from nationally representative surveys _____ ThunderKATs Going Strong: Studying Cosmic Fireworks with MeerKAT | Website |
| November 02 2022 | Mary Coughlin Cocoran School of the Arts & Design _____ Matthew Rau Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Xiaoke Zhang Statistics | Ozone Test Sticks for PVC Plastics? _____ Transport by Aquatic Particles: an interdisciplinary opportunity _____ Functional Data Analysis: From Correlation to Causation | Video of Presentations Website |
| October 05 2022 | Caitlin Grady Engineering Management & Systems _____ Jeffery Ding Political Sciences _____ Sibin Mohan Computer Science | The context of connections: using networks to understand sustainability, security and ethics across resource systems _____ Transferring Security: Permissive Action Like, Scientific Networks, and the Process of Nuclear Security Assistance _____ Increasing Trust in Autonomous Systems | Video of Presentations Website |
| September 07 2022 | Alexa Alice Joublin Department of English _____ Cheri Marmarosh Department of Professional Psychology _____ Gabriela Rosenblau Department of Psychological & Brain Science | Transgender Studies and Why it Matters _____ Attachment Research: Using the Past to Help People in the Present _____ A Social Learning Framework to Improve diagnosis and Treatment across psychiatric disorders | Video of Presentations Website |
| April 06 2022 | Lorien Abroms Prevention & Community Health _____ Joan Kester Education & Human Development _____ Lynn Westwater Romance, German & Slavic Languages & Literature | Policy and Educational Interventions to Promote Health on Social Media _____ Your Voice. Your Story. Your Future _____ Arcangela Tarabotti, Feminist Heretic in the Counter-Reformation Church | Video of Presentations Website |
| March 02 2022 | Tony Yang Public Policy & Management _____ Gaige Kerr Environmental & Occupational Health _____ Josh Glazer Education and Human Development | Preemption in Tobacco Control _____ Exploring Environmental Justice Implications of Air Pollution in the United States _____ Who controls America's schools? An institutional logics perspective on the role of the state, the profession, and the community in US education | Video of Presentations Website |
| February 02 2022 | Kausik Sarkar School of Engineering & Applied Science _____ Nicholas White Columbian College _____ Peng Wei Engineering & Applied Science | "Microbubbles and Nanoparticles for Ultrasound Imaging, therapeutics and Tissue Engineering" _____ "Lobsters in Space" _____ "AI and Autonomy in Aviation and Aeronautics" | Video of Presentations Website |
| November 03 2021 | Erica Gralla Engineering Management & System Engineering _____ Ethan Porter Media and Public Affairs _____ Emily Smith Global Health | Simulation models for scaling up COVID-19 testing to meet pandemic-driven needs _____ Correcting Misinformation in the U.S. and Around the World _____ Collaborative models for getting faster answers: A sequential, prospective meta-analysis to understand the risks of COVID-19 in pregnancy | Website |
| October 06 2021 | Matthew Barberio Exercise & Nutrition Sciences _____ Stephen Boyes Chemistry _____ John Lill Biological Sciences | Small extracellular vesicles from adipose tissue: an opportunity to study adipose tissue non-invasively _____ Tailoring Surface Interactions and Properties Using Polymers _____ Brood X Redux: Resource Pulses and Trophic Cascades | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| September 08 2021 | Payman Dehghanian Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Samer Hamdar Civil & Environmental Engineering _____ Qing Zeng Biomedical Informatics Center | Distributed Intelligence for Online Situational Awareness and Resilience in Power Grids _____ AI in Traffic Engineering: From Computer Vision to Incident Detection in a Connected Transportation Environment _____ Explainable AI and Observational Data in Clinical Research | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| April 07 2021 | David Nagel Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Dwight Kravitz Phycological & Brain Sciences _____ Diana Pardo Pedraza Anthropology | The Lure of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) _____ Predicting Functional Organization and its Effect on Behavior _____ Playful intra-actions: Dog-Human Training in Mine Detection | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| March 03 2021 | Zhenyu Li Engineering _____ Dale Lupu Nursing _____ Mark Reeves Physics | Microfluidics and Biosensors for Personalized Medicine _____ The End of the Story Matters: Implementing supportive (palliative) care for people with kidney disease _____ Aerosols moving, where we work | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| February 03 2021 | David Costanza Psychology & Organizational Sciences Core _____ Tianshu Li Civil & Environmental Engineering _____ Joseph Meisel Chemistry | Almost everything you think you know about generations is wrong _____ Modeling-driven discovery: From ice nucleation to quantum materials _____ Synthesis of Molecular Pockets for Applications in Biology and Medicine | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| Demceber 02 2020 | Ashley Darcy-Mahoney Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute _____ Keryn Gedan Biological Sciences | Testing a Theory of Sensory Hypersensitivities in Young Children with Autism to Facilitate Early Diagnosis and Develop Novel Interventions _____ Tracking changes due to sea level rise in coastal landscapes | Video of Presentations Website |
| October 14 2020 | Ginger RH Allington Geography _____ Matthew Kay Biomedical Engineering _____ W. Andrew Barr PAPER, CASHP | Mapping dynamic processes of land cover change in arid rangelands _____ Oh brain protect my heart! The powerful influence of the autonomic system _____ Putting the human fossil record in context | Video of Presentations |
| September 16 2020 | Lisa Bowleg Psychological & Brain Studies _____ Robert Pless Computer Science | Intersectionality: What it is & why it's so indispensable for health equity research & policy _____ Explainable image search to help fight sex trafficking | Video of Presentations |
| March 04 2020 | Adam Aviv Computer Science _____ Ira S Lurie Forensic Sciences | Human Factors in Mobile Authentication _____ Combating the Opioid Crisis using Forensic Chemistry | Video of Presentations |
| February 05 2020 | Chung Hyuk Park Biomedical Engineering _____ Jimmy Saw Biology _____ Axel Schmidt Physics | From Social robots for Children to Therapeutic Robotic Assistance _____ Exploring the Hidden Microbial Diversity in Extreme Habitats _____ Why do protons & neutrons change shape when we put them in nuclei? | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| December 04 2019 | Sandy Kawano Biology _____ Nirbhay Kumar Global Health _____ Murray Loew Biomedical Engineering | Integrating ecology, evolution & biomechanics to investigate how animals move _____ A vaccine to eliminate Malaria that causes 1 death per minute _____ Seeing the invisible: Recent work in medical imaging & image analysis | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| November 06 2019 | Ling Hao Chemistry _____ Santiago Solares Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Yuxiao Huang Data Science | Discovering molecular signatures of human diseases via Mass Spectrometry _____ Exploring the Micro- & Nanoworld with the Atomic Force Microscope _____ On the discovery of Feature Importance Distributions : An Overlooked Area | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| October 02 2019 | Aylin Caliskan Computer Science _____ Stephan Hsu Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Francys Subiaul Anthropology ( CASHP), Speech, Language & Hearing Services | Human-like Bias in Machine Intelligence _____ Surface Engineering : Multifunctional Surfaces _____ Where do good ideas come from? | Video of Presentations Poster Website |
| April 03 2019 | Gina Adam Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Luyao Lu Biomedical Engineering _____ R. Alexander Pyron Biological Studies | Memristor devices as artificial synapses for neuro-inspired computing _____ Soft Optoelectronics for Assessment of Biological Systems _____ Undiscovered Biodiversity: describing new species of reptile and amphibian from around the world | Poster Website |
| March 06 2019 | Hui Li Pharmacology & Physiology _____ Arkady Yerukhimovich Computer Science _____ Evangeline Downie Physics | Decode the Neural Circuit Associated with Motor Learning Deficit in Rett Syndrome _____ Cryptographically Secure Computation: Enabling Collaboration in an Adversarial World _____ MUSEing about the Proton Radius Puzzle | Poster Website |
| February 06 2019 | Neil Johnson Physics _____ John Helveston Engineering Management & System Engineering _____ Keith Crandall Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Computational Biology Institute | Darker Side of the (current & future Quantum) Internet _____ Technology Change, Sustainability & China _____ Genomics, Informatics & Health | Poster Website |
| December 12 2018 | Max Alekseyev Mathematics, Computational Biology Institute _____ Alison Brooks Center for the advance study of human Paleobiology _____ Maddury Somayazulu Civil & Environmental Engineering | Cracking evolutionary mysteries with graph theory & algorithms _____ Geochemistry, social networks & the middle pleistocene origins of human society _____ A novel material that superconducts near room temperature | Video of Presentations Website |
| November 06 2018 | Sidney Fu Medicine _____ Omur Ozel Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Erik Rodriguez Chemistry | MicroRNA Biomarkers in Cancer _____ Optimizing Robustness of Flow Networks against Cascading Failures _____ Tools to Image Single Molecules to Human Disease | Video of Presentations Website |
| May 09 2018 | Jakub Kostal Chemistry _____ Keryn Gedan Biological Sciences _____ Anne-Laure Papa Biomedical Engineering | Website | |
| December 05 2017 | Chris Cahill Chemistry _____ Saniya LeBlanc Medical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Christine Brantner & Dilan Ratnayake Imaging Suite | Finding the Names & Addresses of the Atom in Crystalline Solids _____ Linking Materials, Manufacturing & System Design for Energy Technologies _____ George Washington University Nanofabrication Imaging Center | Website |
| October 18 2017 | Alexander van der Horst Astrophysics _____ Volker Sorger Electrical & Computer Engineering _____ Leon Grayfer Biology _____ Sergio Almecija Anthropology | Astronomical Amounts of Big Data _____ Light at the nanoscale _____ To croak of Not: Immune determinants of Frogs _____ Novel looks at human evolution | Website |
| May 10 2017 | Patricia Hernandez Biology _____ Michael Keidar Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering _____ Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal Chemistry _____ Tim Wood Computer Science | From scum suckers to master filterers: How anatomical novelties have opened up new niches for tropical fishes _____ Plasma Medicine _____ Chemist's role in minimizing toxicity risk in commercial chemicals _____ Cloud computing: A million computers in the sky? | Website |
| February 21 2017 | Claire Besson Chemistry, CCAS _____ David Broniatowski Management & System Engineering, SEAS _____ Katherine Chiappinelli GW Cancer Center, SMHS _____ Zhenyu Li Biomedical Engineering, SEAS | Building a quantum computer, molecule by molecule _____ Communication strategies for behavior changes on social media _____ Epigenetic activation of interferon response to sensitive cancers to immune therapy _____ Wearable & Microfluidics: How technology can enable new medical devices | Website |
| October 12 2016 | Brenda Bradley Anthropology/CASHP _____ Ganhui Lan Physics _____ Arnaud Martin Biological Studies _____ Mandi Pratt-Chapman Patient-Centers Initiatives & Health Equity , GW Cancer Center | How lemurs see the world? ____ How well do cells cope with crowds? ____ Do butterflies dream of genetic tattoos? ____ Mind the Gap: What is needed for research to improve practice? | Website |
| April 01 2016 | Emilia Entcheva Biomedical Engineering _____ Aleksander Jeremic Biology _____ Megan Leftwich Biomedical Engineering/Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering _____ Houston Miller Chemistry | Website |
