This semester's ISE Lab speaker series begins Sept. 8, featuring international, interdisciplinary initiatives by UD students, staff and faculty.

International initiatives

Lunchtime speaker series features UD projects from Asia to Antarctica

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11:18 a.m., Sept. 2, 2014--A lunchtime speaker series, “International Interdisciplinary Initiatives,” begins Sept. 8 with talks by University of Delaware faculty members who have participated in projects in central Asia and in Hong Kong. Each session of the weekly series will feature two initiatives involving UD students, staff or faculty.

The series, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. on Mondays in Room 110 of the DuPont Science Learning Laboratories, the instructional wing of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory (ISE Lab). 

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Every week, each speaker will present a TED-style talk, followed by a discussion session. Locations of the projects range from Asia to Antarctica.

To register, send an email to isll-info@udel.edu and provide your name, department and email address. Sandwiches and beverages will be available to the first 30 attendees who register. For more information on the series, contact Kimberly Doucette at 831-6400.

Following are the speakers for September:

Sept. 8: Kyle McCarthy, assistant professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, will speak about “Conservation of Snow Leopards in Central Asia Through Social and Economic Incentives”; and

Martha Carothers, professor of art, will speak about “Building General Educational Curriculum in Hong Kong Universities.”

Sept. 15: Mark A. Serva, associate professor of management information systems, will speak about global enterprise technology; and

Gerald R. Poirier, lab manager with the Delaware Environmental Institute, will speak about “Aesthetically Pleasing Science,” and how, in the course of imaging nanomaterials, nature reveals itself in a beautiful way.

Sept. 22: Nancy Guerra, associate provost for international programs and professor of psychological and brain sciences, will speak about “Insights into “kNOw Violence: A Global Learning Initiative to Prevent Violence in Childhood,” co-sponsored by UD’s Institute for Global Studies and the Public Health Foundation of India; and

Sebastian Cioaba, assistant professor of mathematical sciences, will speak about "Codes, Ciphers and Networks."

Sept. 29: Ralph Begleiter, director of UD’s Center for Political Communication, will discuss how carrying interdisciplinary work — and students — abroad can take a variety of forms beyond traditional “study abroad” programs. Some are easier than others to accomplish, but all of these varieties of international study are eye-openers for our students, Begleiter says.

Also speaking Sept. 29 will be Afton Sather, assistant professor of geography, whose topic will be announced later.

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