Duke GradX Presenter Schedule
3:05 pm Opening Remarks
James Budinich
Sonifying CRISPR: How to compose new music inspired by CRISPR genetic editing
Maggie Swift
How elephants interact with a seasonally-fluxing landscape—and what might happen when the waterholes that weave this tapestry disappear?
Travis Knoll
How did a country as racially unequal as Brazil come to unanimously affirm race-based university quotas as constitutional?
Meredith Schmehl
How does seeing help us hear?
Cole Wicker
How can history inform land conservation?
Nidhila Masha
In individuals with multiple sclerosis, does childhood exposure to second-hand smoke increase severity of multiple sclerosis?
3-Minute Break
3:50 pm
Jennifer Kades
Is part of the story of the “great resignation” a shift in the psychological cost of unemployment?
Akash Singh
How an engineered phase of a synthetic mineral could broaden up its application space?
Sam Hall
“Forever Chemicals:” How can we better understand the human exposure and health effects of these toxic PFAS Chemicals in North Carolina?
S. Monroe
Is the vagus nerve an immune signaling pathway during respiratory infection?
Qirui Ju
How does corruption affect innovation?
August Frenchette
What could the future of household water use look like in the United States?
3-Minute Break
4:35 pm
Keynote Presentation
Nicki Washington, Ph.D
How can we teach to transgress in compouting?
Following the presentations, please join us for virtual breakout rooms!