October 2020
The Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Graduate College welcome the Drexel community to join us for our next Scholars Share: Conversations on Graduate Student Research to hear from current graduate students and postdocs about their research endeavors and a faculty moderator who will facilitate questions and discussion from the audience. About 20-30 attendees will get a $10 gift card each and the presenters/moderators will get a $35 gift card each
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
1-2PM
Online Through Zoom [Register Here]
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Featured Speakers:
Virginia Caponera
PhD Candidate in Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Social doesn't always make smart: Assessing the effect of social behavior on brain evolution in spiders
Ginny Caponera is a third-year BEES PhD candidate in the O'Donnell Lab. She is interested in the evolution of sociality and the adaptations that accompany social behavior. She studies the effect of social behavior on brain evolution using social spiders.
Lena Champlin
PhD Candidate in Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Flying to fieldwork: doing environmental research in a new environment
Lena Champlin studies changes in coastal water quality over time. For her thesis research, she is studying Elkhorn Slough in California, an estuary influenced by extensive agriculture which provides a large percentage of national produce including strawberries and lettuce. Lena is a third-year PhD candidate in Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences. She works with Dr. Elizabeth Watson at the Academy of Natural Sciences where she enjoys doing outreach using art and visual displays that she makes.
Saurajyoti Kar
PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Investigating biofuel feedstock portfolios, seeking to minimize GHG emissions given the variation in feedstock production due to soil, management, and climate factors
Saura is Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering at CAEE Department at Drexel University. His research focuses on studying and develop statistical analysis methods in Life Cycle Assessment in the realm of Bio-energy feedstocks and nutrient recovery. In addition to Saura's current research, he has worked on agent-based modeling for chemical kinetics and microbial quantification during his undergraduate and master's research, respectively. In leisure time, Saura loves to serve with GSA and spend time with friends.
Reference:
S. Kar, B. Riazi, P. L. Gurian, S. Spatari, P. R. Adler, W. J. Parton. An optimization framework to identify key management strategies for improving biorefinery performance: A case study of winter barley production, Biofpr, 14, 6, 1296-1312. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2141.
Faculty Moderator:
Director of Academic Support, Graduate Pipeline Programs
Graduate College
Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Associate Teaching Professor
College of Engineering