Join us for Grad Ben Talks, an afternoon of TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs. Grad Ben Talks is open to the Penn community and the general public. Check back soon for participant information. Click HERE to view winning talks from previous years.

2020 Schedule:

 12 p.m.   GROUP PRESENTATIONS

• Does Phone Disrupt Collaborative Performance?
  Noah Beam, Bella Dai, Nathan Rosenstein, Paige Tomlinson, Ruiling Wen, and Cedric Whitney
  Behavioral and Decision Sciences
• In-Group Solidarity Under Social Identity Threat and Self-Interest
  Ting Chang, Ishwari Deshpande, Ting-Yi Lin, Dillon Myers, Hans Max Spohn, and Abigail Williams
  Behavioral and Decision Sciences
• Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Increase Concussion Symptom Reporting Among High School Athletes
  Cameo Hazlewood and Justin Thompson
  Behavioral and Decision Sciences

1 p.m.   PROFESSIONAL MASTER'S PRESENTATIONS

• Keith Coleman, Master of Applied Positive Psychology
  Student-Athletes: Grit, Intellectual Pursuit, and Well-Being
• Pallavi Gopee, Master of Organizational Dynamics
  The Generation Game: A Glance at Intergenerational Conflicts in the Workplace
• Darlene Marshall, Master of Applied Positive Psychology
  Building the Self So You Can Give It Away — The Upward Cycle of Self-Improvement
• Daniel Murray, Master of Philosophy in Liberal Arts
  Physician-Assisted Suicide as an End of Life Option for Terminally Ill Patients Nationally
• Emily Waller, Master of Liberal Arts
  Violent Delights: The Vulnerable Female Body in the Hellenistic Romance and the 18th-Century Novel

2 p.m.  SOCIAL SCIENCES PRESENTATIONS

• Dina Asfaha, Anthropology
  Underground Hospital: Conceptions of Sovereignty and Conflict Medicine in Post-War Eritrea
• Shaquilla Harrigan, Sociology
  Accountability Jenga: How One NGO Balances Local and International Demands
• Briana Nichols, Anthropology
  No Son Libres Allí/They Are Not Free There
• Sara Ray, History and Sociology of Science
  Bodies in Bottles: The 18th-Century Anatomical Cabinet of Frederik Ruysch
• Nicole Welk-Joerger, History and Sociology of Science
  It's Not Easy Eating Green

3 p.m.  HUMANITIES PRESENTATIONS

• Shoshana Adler, English Literature Learning
  How to Feel Race: Lessons on Racism from Medieval England
• Esraa al-Shammari, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  Salim Barakat and the Language of Poetry in Arabic
• Marco Avilés, Romance Languages
  Erasing the Indigenous in Oneself
• Weston Bland, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
  An Ideal Moment of Violence? Hierarchies of Suffering in Egypt and Beyond
• Johanna Kaiser, Classical Studies
  Making Scents of Ancient Rome in the Epigrams of Martial

4 p.m.  NATURAL SCIENCES PRESENTATIONS

• Phoebe Askelson, Chemistry
  Photosynthesis and Lasers: A Look into our Clean Energy Future
• Pedro Bernardinelli, Physics & Astronomy
  Hunting for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System
• Cheyenne Chaplain, Chemistry
  CD4 Mimetics — A Key to Lock Out HIV-1 Viral Entry
• Michael O'Shea, Earth & Environmental Science
  Urban Road Dust: Investigating Philly's Street Gunk as Both Source and Sink for Pollutants
• Võ Tiến Phong, Physics & Astronomy
  An Electron Wave Conspiracy

Refreshments, including vegan and vegetarian options, will be served throughout the day.

Can't make it to the event? Watch the Grad Ben Talks on Facebook Live or Twitter.