UR-HIP Faculty Showcase

This event included a panel of presentations and open discussion about what undergraduate research looks like in various disciplines.

Panelists:

• Marisa Hollywood, Kupferberg Holocaust Center
• Heather Huggins, Communication, Theatre, and Media Production
• Scott Litroff, Music
• Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Office of Academic Affairs/Chemistry
• Roumen Vragov, Business

Moderator: Joan Petersen, Biology

This UR-HIP Faculty Showcase, held on April 28, 2021.

Time: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Location: Zoom

This event featured two guest speakers:

Professor Jody Resko, Department of Social Sciences, presented “Math Anxiety in Pre-Service Teachers: A case for Conducting Research in the Classroom”

In addition to highlighting the research that she is conducting involving negative attitudes and anxiety towards math in pre-service elementary education students, Professor Resko will be discussing ways to get students interested and involved in research by bridging the gap between research and practice by conducting classroom research.

Professor Monica Trujillo, Department of Biological Sciences and Geology, presented on “SARS-CoV-2, wastewater and the CUNY-Immigrant Team”

This is the story of how a CUNY immigrant team developed a protocol to detect the SARS-CoV-2 genetic signal in NYC wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is also about wastewater surveillance becoming a great tool for public health, and a vision of possible roles for CUNY in NYC.

QCC's UR-HIP Faculty Showcases are informal gatherings at which faculty discuss their UR projects and ideas.

This UR-HIP Faculty Showcase, held on October 28, 2020, featured guest speakers Mercedes Franco and Kat Griefen.

This UR-HIP Faculty Showcase, held on September 30, 2020, featured guest speakers Dugwon Seo (ET) and Georgina Colalillo (Nursing).