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Scholarship at Lunch Time (SALT)

This highly interactive event series provides an opportunity for IUPUI faculty to meet new colleagues and learn about the different types of research initiatives on campus in an informal setting. Established researchers from all disciplines give short presentations that focus on current and future research activities. SALT aims to:

• showcase interdisciplinary research efforts at the campus level;
• promote research center activities; and
• encourage new collaborative partnerships.

SALT events are open to all faculty and staff. They are held at The Faculty Club, which is located on the second floor of the University Place Conference Center in IP 200. The Faculty Club opens at 11:30 am for lunch with the presentations and ensuing discussions scheduled from 12-1 pm. Lunch is a buffet that includes soup, a salad bar, two warm entrees with side dishes, and desert for $12.90 plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are highly recommended. Click here for registration links to each event.

Please direct any questions regarding the SALT program to Dominique M. Galli. Questions regarding The Faculty Club should be sent to facclub@iupui.edu.

 

2009/2010 SALT Schedule

September 22, 2009: A new paradigm for training interdisciplinary behavioral scientists
Anna McDaniel
School of Nursing
Transdisciplinary health research training has been identified as a major initiative to achieve the vision for research teams of the future as articulated in the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. To address the need for scientists who can integrate diverse scientific approaches and work in transdisciplinary teams to solve complex health problems, an innovative training program has been designed that provides didactic and research experiences to enable trainees to establish productive careers in behavioral oncology and cancer control research. In this presentation, the development of a successful transdisciplinary training program that includes mentorship, research, and a specialized curriculum across a broad range of disciplines will be discussed.

October 22, 2009: Faces and Races in Medicine
Richard Ward
School of Liberal Arts
Race and ethnicity persist as important constructs in clinical medicine where the terms are frequently confounded, misused and reflect a persistence of typological thinking. Anthropological perspectives on human variation offer a more effective means of understanding and utilizing interpopulational variation as it relates to disease expression, therapeutic success, and treatment. In this study craniofacial anthropometry has been used to study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and in the process has revealed both general diagnostic features as well as what appears to be population specific features. This research supports the argument that there is as much variability within "traditional" racial and ethnic categories as between them.

November 19, 2009: The Legacy of Frankenstein: Regenerative Biology and Medicine
David Stocum
School of Science
Dr. Stocum traces the medical legacy of Frankenstein from the 19th century to today, from the assembly of body parts into a monster, to the regeneration of new tissues and organs. Current methods for replacing tissues and organs damaged by injury or disease, as well as new technologies under development, such as cell transplants and bioartificial tissues and organs, will be presented. A discussion on the bioethical dilemmas regarding the sources of cells to be used will follow.

February 24, 2010: Mood, Stress, and Decision Making in a Virtual World
Mark Pfaff
School of Informatics
Dr. Pfaff’s research explores the intersection of people, information, and technology in computer-supported cooperative work environments through the use of experimental simulations and mixed-methodological approaches. The focus of this talk will be on applied cognitive psychology, with some discussion of the systems used in complex work environments.

March 25, 2010: Understanding religion in American Life and the role of IUPUI in that endeavor
Philip Goff
School of Liberal Arts
Dr. Goff is the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. The Center aims at increasing awareness and understanding of the diversity of American religious life and the manifold forms in which religion reveals itself in culture. By placing Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and non-mainstream beliefs, behaviors, and rituals together in fashioning an analysis of American religion, the Center has helped increase scholarly and public understandings of the diversity of the American religious experience and established entirely new views from which to study religion in America.

April 22, 2010: We are not Mutilated: Voices of Circumcised Women
Khadija Khaja
School of Social Work
Dr. Khaja’s research focuses on the cultural traditional practice of female circumcision and Muslim Human Rights. She has examined the perceptions of circumcised African Muslim women migrants living in North America towards international human rights policies that ban female circumcision. Findings illustrate why many African circumcised women migrants feel marginalized globally by the very human rights policies that were designed to protect them.

Please note:
The schedule of speakers for the next academic year is set every year by the end of August.