Interdisciplinary researchers mix things up at 2022 Fall Forum
November 27, 2022
Interdisciplinary researchers mix things up at 2022 Fall Forum
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Roughly 200 faculty, students, postdocs and staff from Ohio State and beyond participated in the successful 2022 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum co-hosted by TDAI and the Sustainability Institute Nov. 7-9 in Pomerene Hall. In addition to two workshops and a networking reception, the event featured 46 speakers in nine topical sessions, an opening keynote by National Science Foundation Assistant Director Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, and a closing session by Dr. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Ohio State’s Vice President for Knowledge Enterprise.
Judges awarded prizes to four students for their presentations in the research poster session, which featured 38 entries:
Fangyi Wang (center) with Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf (at left) and Dr. Elena Irwin at the 2022 Interdisciplinary Research Fall ForumFirst Place: Fangyi Wang, “Empirical Bayesian Shape Model for Estimation and Classification of Fragmented Bovid Teeth.” Advisor: Sebastian Kurtek
Second Place (tie):
Juan Xu, “Development of a Machine Learning Method to Support Low Cost Realtime Legionella Monitoring.” Advisor: Mark Weir
Daniel Do, “Pharmacokinetics of Tomato Steroidal Alkaloids in Healthy Adults Following Consumption of Two Doses of Tomato Juice.” Advisor: Jessica Cooperstone
Third Place: Katherine Bowman, “Quantifying Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Mosquito-borne Disease Prevalence.” Advisor: Laura Pomeroy
TDAI and SI are deeply grateful to the following faculty, postdocs, staff and industry partners for their time and efforts:
Dr. Wendy Hesford (at left) moderates a Tuesday panel discussion with (l-r) Dr. Christa Teston, Dr. Hannah Kosstrin and Dr. Amy Youngs entitled “Art and Humanities and Wicked Problems”
Session Organizers
Alison Bennett
Jeff Bielicki
Bear Braumoeller
Charlene Brenner
Marcello Canova
Andre Carrel
Jian Chen
Xiaolin Cheng
Jordan Clark
Dave Cole
Sean Downey
Wendy Hesford
Ayaz Hyder
Elena Irwin
Huyen Le
Jay Martin
Harv Miller
William Minozzi
Alvaro Montenegro
Parinaz Naghizadeh
Xia Ning
Andrew Perrault
Mario Peruggia
Courtney Price
Abdollah Shafieezadeh
Christa Teston
Linda Weavers
Robyn Wilson
Poster Judges
Kate Bartter
Harsha Bhat
Gil Bohrer
Vimal Buck
Stephanie Buehler
Alex Davis
Sean Downey
Elizabeth Drotleff
Paige Kelly
Meris Longmeier
Emily Nutwell
Yoyo Peng
Cathie Smith
Mark Weir
Yuan Zhang
Research Partners
TDAI and SI are also grateful to the following for participating in the Partner Session showcase of resources and opportunities for interdisciplinary researchers:
Ohio State Resources and Partners:
Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Policy
