2024 HMURS Program

November 15, 2024, Friday

(The speaker and the poster presentations will be at the GGC E building-LVIS)

1:00 PM Registration & Poster Set-Up (GGC E Building-LVIS)

2:00-2:05 PM Introductory Remarks: Dr. Ajay Mallia, GGC

2:05-2:10 PM Welcome: Dr. Joseph Ametepe, Interim Dean, SST, GGC

2:10-2:15 PM Introduction of the 2024 Herty Medalist: Dr. Chavonda Mills, Interim Provost, GGC

2:15-2:50 PM Herty Award Address: ā€œMapping your life and everything else ā€“ the promise of high dimensional phenomics,ā€ Dr. John Mclean, 2024 Herty Awardee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Click here for the abstract)

2:50-3:00 PM Break

3:00-4:30 PM Undergraduate Student Poster Session / Reception. (Click here for the poster presentation abstracts)

4:30- 4:40 PM Break

4:40-5:00 PM “Using Additive Manufacturing to Engineer Synthetic Tissues with Functional Chemical Gradients at Various Length Scales”, Dr. Juana Mendenhall, Morehouse College (Click here for the abstract)

5:00-5:20 PM “Using indigenous knowledge during a professional path from a lab setting to college administrationā€, Dr. Beth Michel, Emory University, Atlanta (Click here for the abstract)

5:20-5:30 PM Poster Award Ceremony & Concluding Remarks