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Art and AI

A group of students from department of art history, department of physics and department of biology initiated and worked on a project about art identification with artificial intelligence. The project has since evolved into a collaboration between the department of physics, department of art history and the Cleveland museum of art. They would talk about their stories of working on the project and collaboration between science and art.
Speakers: Lauryn Smith, Michael McMaster, Marcio O'Dwyre, Shishir Adhikari, Fang Ji, Sam Schwab, Sarah Lavin, Gundeep Singh
Time: Oct 12th 5-6pm EDT
Link to event zoom recording:
https://cwru.zoom.us/rec/share/R8YRCXyN7H4lgjq1v3vhYwIp72WSOabkdxpfpLWOYSpJYy2ymlD0-n9PTaAFtHC-.o4hTBe2KK1peD8cG
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86l7QsBX4lg

Music and running nonprofit

Bethany Nickel is a former PhD student at the music department. She's on the board of music nonprofit PlayItForward.com. She had been the president of Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences too. Bethany would tell us about running nonprofit as a musician and music educator.
Speaker: Bethany Nickel
Time: 4:30pm, 2021/09/20
Reference: https://www.playitforward.com/about

Winning half-marathon at the South Pole

Allen Foster is a PhD student at the physics department working on cosmic microwave background. He would tell us about living at the South Pole as an astrophysicist.
Speaker: Allen Foster
Time: Sept 15th 12:00-12:45
References: 
https://thedaily.case.edu/living-in-a-bubble-at-the-bottom-of-the-world-cwru-physics-phd-student-allen-foster-on-living-at-the-south-pole-during-a-global-pandemic/
https://thedaily.case.edu/physicss-allen-foster-wins-half-marathon-in-antarctica/

Jewish Culture, the Restaurant Business, and Completing a Degree

Isabel Davidson recently graduated with a BA in Cognitive Science and Spanish, and is currently completing an MA in Cognitive Linguistics. Besides her studies, she's the manager of a Jewish restaurant here on campus, Kantina in uptown. She will tell us about American Jewish culture and what it's like to run a restaurant while in school.
Speaker: Isabel Davidson.     
Time: Tuesday, 2021/11/16 , 4-5pm

The Congressional Science Fellowship

After completing a post doc at Case physics, Dr. Laura Gladstone won a distinguished Congressional Science Fellowship award. She's going to tell us about the fellowship and what it's like to help policy making with the background of a scientist.
Speaker: Laura Gladstone
Time:TBD
Ref: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202010/congressional.cfm

Speaker: Chad Weisman

Chad is going to tell us his story of battling alcohol to realize his law school dream.
Time: 2022 04 15 Fri 3:30- 4:30

Speaker: Austin Coley

Time: 2022 06 10 Fri.

A Passion for Dentistry

Erica Chambers is a third year student at CWRU school of dental medicine working on general dentistry. Growing up, Erica enjoyed math and science but particularly had an interest in teeth and oral health early on. She started her undergraduate studies in biology, and then switched to journalism before coming back to her childhood passion, dentistry. She's active with student organizations as a committee member with American Student Dental Association, the dental branch of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, secretary of the Hispanic Student Dental Association, and class of 2024 representative for Psi Omega Fraternity and Student National Dental Association. Besides school and academic involvement, Erica has been working as an English tutor, an experience that helped her see the perspectives of people from different backgrounds.
Speaker: Erica Chambers
Time: 2022 10 12 Wed