2024 HMURS Program

November 15, 2024, Friday

Speaker presentations will be held at the GGC Belonging Center (Building B, Room 100).
Student poster presentations will be held in the GGC Building B Atrium.

1:00 PM Registration & Poster Set-Up (GGC Building B Atrium)

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