2021 Huskey Exhibition
The 2021 Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition was held on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 1:30-5 pm ET. Ten graduate students were selected to receive a $250 honorarium and presented their research in 10-min TED-style talks. Twelve recipients of the Spring 2021 Graduate Student Council Research Grant also presented 5-min “blitz” talks about their projects.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s exhibition was held virtually via Zoom. As a result, we were pleased to able to open attendance to the public. Download a copy of this year’s program, or see the schedule below. Links to participants’ slides and videos of their talks are provided where available.
Presenters had the option to attend two workshops before the exhibition, one on giving a talk to a generalist audience, and one on open scholarship; see calendar below. Presenters also had the option to receive a video of their talk to advance their professional development and increase the visibility of their research.
All presenters are encouraged to upload their slides and any other supporting materials for their talks (e.g., data, code) to an online repository (2021 OSF Meetings page) to enhance the transparency, accessibility, and reproducibility of their work (to upload materials at the page above, click “Add your poster or talk” and follow the instructions). Go here to see materials from last year’s exhibition.
Questions?
Please email huskey.presenters@gmail.com.
Exhibition Organizers
Jeremy Eberle and Katie Daniel, 2020-2021 Co-Chairs of Graduate Student Council Research Committee
Wednesday, March 17, 12-1 pm
Workshop on giving a talk (Open to Presenters)
Format: Virtual (synchronous videoconference)
Facilitator: Marlit Hayslett, Director of Communication Training and Strategy, Office of Graduate and Postdoc Affairs, UVA
Thursday, March 25, 11 am-12 pm
Workshop on open scholarship (Open to Presenters)
Format: Virtual (synchronous videoconference)
Facilitator: Sherry Lake, Scholarly Repository Librarian, Scholarly Repository Services, UVA
Increasing the Transparency and Reproducibility of Research Across Disciplines
This workshop provides an introduction to best practices in open scholarship across disciplines. Participants will learn about Open Data, Open Materials, and Open Access, and methods for managing data and making their work more transparent, accessible, and reproducible using tools such as the Open Science Framework and LibraData, UVA’s Dataverse repository.
Tuesday, March 30, 1:30-5 pm
Research Exhibition (Open to the Public)
Format: Virtual (synchronous videoconference)
1:30-1:35 Opening Remarks (5 min)
1:35-1:55 Session 1 (Grant Winners, 5-Min Talks, Questions During Break)
1:35 Jacqueline Sahagian (History)
1:40 Sophie Cook (Chemistry)
1:45 Dennis Campell (Economics)
1:50 Ian Becker (Psychology)
1:55-2:00 Break (5 min)
2:00-2:55 Session 2 (Huskey Winners, 10-Min Talks, 1-Min Question After Each)
2:00 Amanda McCubbins (Politics), American Drug Story: How Racialized Media Depictions of Drug Crises Shape Policy Agendas
2:11 Ephraiem Sarabamoun (Physics), The Strange World of Small Things
View video.
2:22 Jacod Malcomb (Environmental Sciences), Ghosts of Emissions Past: How 20th Century Air Pollution Affects 21st Century Forest Carbon Uptake
2:33 Phoebe Cook (Biology), Composition of Individual Personalities Alters Social Network Structure
View video.
2:44 Cabell Williams (Psychology), Effects of Parental Engagement on Oxytocin Receptor Gene Methylation and Neural Response to Social Stimuli
2:55-3:05 Break (10 min)
3:05-3:25 Session 3 (Grant Winners, 5-Min Talks, Questions During Break)
3:05 Eben Yonetti (Religious Studies)
3:10 Chang Liu (Chemistry)
3:15 Justin Mann (Art)
3:20 MD Amzad Hossain (Economics)
3:25-3:30 Break (5 min)
3:30-4:25 Session 4 (Huskey Winners, 10-Min Talks, 1-Min Question After Each)
3:30 Eyal Handelsman Katz (English), Reflection-Based Grading in the Writing Classroom: An Equitable Alternative?
3:41 María Larrazabal (Psychology), Identifying the Presence of State Social Anxiety Using Passive Mobile Sensing
3:52 Snigdha Das (Economics), Corruption and the Golden Goose Effect in the Context of a Bomb Task Experiment
4:03 Anna Way (Biology), How Can Worm Research Help to Improve Cancer Treatments?
4:14 Daniele Celano (History), Conflicting Laws of Liberty: How Fugitive Slave Law Reshaped Civil Liberties in the Civil War
4:25-4:35 Break (10 min)
4:35-4:55 Session 5 (Grant Winners, 5-Min Talks, Questions at Start of Closing Remarks)
4:35 Ruixing Cao (Politics)
4:40 Joseph Foley (History)
4:45 Kamil Stelmach (Chemistry)
4:50 Patrice Wright (Sociology)
4:55-5:00 Closing Remarks (5 min)
A Focus on Graduate Students
Dr. Robert J. Huskey, Professor of Biology, served the University of Virginia for 32 years. As Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Dr. Huskey improved the graduate student experience by developing assistantships and providing affordable health care. To honor Dr. Huskey's commitment to graduate students, in 2001 the Graduate Student Council introduced the Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition.