2021 Knowledge Mobilization Awards to Showcase Ingenuity of Grad Students and Postdocs

The Knowledge Mobilization Awards annual celebration highlights action-forward, socially impactful research conducted by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at ASU.

Due to current social distancing requirements, the 2021 celebration will be hosted virtually and feature a faculty panel and scholarly presentations throughout the day, culminating in the awards presentation at 4:00 p.m. with keynote speaker Dr. Ronald Benghetto, professor and Pinnacle West Presidential Chair with Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

Students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend. Attendees will engage with creative scholars across disciplines and learn more about the meaning of knowledge mobilization and how current research at ASU is being moved from the page and into action.

Agenda:

Finalists in absentia:

Noa Bruhis (School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures) - Helium rising: A Case Study on Envisioning Futures for Underground Resource Extraction

Annabelle Atkin (T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics) - Understanding Familial Support of Multiracial Youths' Experiences

Time:	Event:	Details:
10:00 a.m.	Research in Progress Session #1	Stefania Kapsetaki (Postdoctoral Scholar, Biodesign Institute) - Dis-ease in Spacetime: 1460 Species Approaching the T(r)opic of Cancer at the Top of the Food Pyramid Barbara Quimby (Postdoctoral Scholar, College of Public Service and Community Solutions) - Water for Agriculture: Stakeholder Engagement in the Verde Valley, Arizona Alli St. John (School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - Consent and Staged Intimacy in High School Theatre Programs
11:00 a.m.	Completed Research Session #1	Akshay Kumar Dileep (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering) - Early Detection of At-Risk Students in a Calculus Course Cameo Flores (School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - Weaponizing the Mariachi 2015-Today: Mexicanidad and the Trump Administration Emily Springer (Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College) - Dumb Numbers: How International Development Evaluation Undermines Gender Justice Anais Roque (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, The College) - Water Sharing as Disaster Response in Puerto Rico: Coping with Water Insecurity in the Aftermath of Hurricane María Shawna Andrea Foo (Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science) - Drivers of fish populations in Hawaii Island
12:00 p.m.	Faculty Panel	Dr. Gustavo Fischman, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Dr. Flavio Marsiglia, Global Center for Applied Health Research, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Dr. Laurie Mook, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Dean Elizabeth Wentz, Graduate College, The College Dr. Enrique Vivoni, Graduate College, School of Earth and Space Exploration
2:00 p.m.	Student Presentations	Jeff Tabet (School of Justice and Human Rights, New College) - Choose Awareness Man Luo (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering) - Semantic Information Retrieval in Biomedical Domain Amanda Trakas (The Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - KIDSS: Considering Kids in Design of Safe Streets Lauren van Huisstede (Postdoctoral Scholar, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College) - Developing a Graduate Student Workshop Series in Data Management Best Practices
3:00 p.m.	Student Presentations	Gabrielle Lout (School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures) - Decent work in the Caribbean: Sub-regional assessment of the shrimp and groundfish fisheries in Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago Marzieh Bitaab (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering) - Detecting Scam Websites at Scale Tareq AL-Ahdel (College of Health Solutions) - The Impact of Climate Change on Diarrheal Diseases in Jordan in the Period between 2004-2018 Lushanya Echeverria (Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College) - Dialogical Narrative Analysis as a Responsive Approach to Compassion Fatigue Reduction in Teachers
4:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker and Award Presentation	Keynote speaker Dr. Ronald Beghetto, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

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2021 Knowledge Mobilization Awards to Showcase Ingenuity of Grad Students and Postdocs

Time:

Event:

Details:

10:00 a.m.

Research in Progress Session #1

Stefania Kapsetaki (Postdoctoral Scholar, Biodesign Institute) - Dis-ease in Spacetime: 1460 Species Approaching the T(r)opic of Cancer at the Top of the Food Pyramid

Barbara Quimby (Postdoctoral Scholar, College of Public Service and Community Solutions) - Water for Agriculture: Stakeholder Engagement in the Verde Valley, Arizona

Alli St. John (School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - Consent and Staged Intimacy in High School Theatre Programs

11:00 a.m.

Completed Research Session #1

Akshay Kumar Dileep (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering) - Early Detection of At-Risk Students in a Calculus Course

Cameo Flores (School of Music, Dance and Theatre, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - Weaponizing the Mariachi 2015-Today: Mexicanidad and the Trump Administration

Emily Springer (Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College) - Dumb Numbers: How International Development Evaluation Undermines Gender Justice

Anais Roque (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, The College) - Water Sharing as Disaster Response in Puerto Rico: Coping with Water Insecurity in the Aftermath of Hurricane María

Shawna Andrea Foo (Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science) - Drivers of fish populations in Hawaii Island

12:00 p.m.

Faculty Panel

Dr. Gustavo Fischman, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Dr. Flavio Marsiglia, Global Center for Applied Health Research, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Dr. Laurie Mook, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Dean Elizabeth Wentz, Graduate College, The College

Dr. Enrique Vivoni, Graduate College, School of Earth and Space Exploration

2:00 p.m.

Student Presentations

Jeff Tabet (School of Justice and Human Rights, New College) - Choose Awareness

Man Luo (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering) - Semantic Information Retrieval in Biomedical Domain

Amanda Trakas (The Design School, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts) - KIDSS: Considering Kids in Design of Safe Streets

Lauren van Huisstede (Postdoctoral Scholar, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College) - Developing a Graduate Student Workshop Series in Data Management Best Practices

3:00 p.m.

Student Presentations

Gabrielle Lout (School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures) - Decent work in the Caribbean: Sub-regional assessment of the shrimp and groundfish fisheries in Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago

Marzieh Bitaab (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision System Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering) - Detecting Scam Websites at Scale

Tareq AL-Ahdel (College of Health Solutions) - The Impact of Climate Change on Diarrheal Diseases in Jordan in the Period between 2004-2018

Lushanya Echeverria (Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College) - Dialogical Narrative Analysis as a Responsive Approach to Compassion Fatigue Reduction in Teachers

4:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker and Award Presentation

Keynote speaker Dr. Ronald Beghetto, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College