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Broader Impacts

Summer Professional Development Series
2025

Tutorial

Managing conflicts in interdisciplinary      research collaborations

Date: 06/18/2025

​​​​​​​​​​​Speaker: Mary Anne Berzins

Chief of staffs at University of Utah

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Panel Discussion

Career in Public Undergraduate Institutes

Date: 07/16/2025

Panel Members:

  1. Katie Peterson                                                       Professor, Bemidji State University

  2. Blakely W. Tresca                                                   Asst. Professor, Kalamazoo College 

  3. Amelia Fuller                                                       S. J. Professor, Santa Clara University

  4. Eric J Werner                                        Professor, University of Tampa

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Tutorial

Developing interdisciplinary research skills

Date: 07/23/2025

​​​​​​​​​​​Speaker: Nicole Elise Frank

Assoc. director for the research program Development, University of Utah

Panel Discussion

Career in Industry

Date: 07/30/2025

Panel Members:

  1. Kara Nell                                                       Senior scientist, Kimberly Clark, Wisconsin

  2. Won Yong Lee                                                  Translational Research & Startup Advocate, SBIR/STTR, Grant Development Associate at University of Utah. 

  3. Kathleen S. Shafer                                                Senior Research Specialist at 3M, Minnesota

  4. Richard Brown                                      Distinguished Professor, University of Utah,  Founder and CEO – e-Sens,                 Founder - Sensicore,                                      Co-founder – i-Sens, and Mobius Microsystems

Panel Discussion

Scientific Publication

Date: 08/20/2025

Panel Members:

  1. Roberta Lock                                                       Associate Editor, Nature Communication

  2. Mathew Sigman                                                  Professor, University of Utah,             Associate Editor, Chemical Science. 

  3. Jenny Yang                                                Professor, University of California, Irvine  Associate Editor, Journal of American Chemical Society.

Panel Discussion

Career in R1 Institutes

Date: TBD

Panel Members:

  1. Darren Johnson                                                   Professor, University of Oregon

  2. Amanda Cook                                                  Asst. Professor at the University of Oregon 

  3. Ilja Siepmann                                                Professor, University of Minnesota

Panel Discussion

Career in Industry

Date: 07/30/2025

Panel Members:

  1. Kara Nell                                                       Senior scientist, Kimberly Clark, Wisconsin

  2. Won Yong Lee                                                  Translational Research & Startup Advocate, SBIR/STTR, Grant Development Associate at University of Utah. 

  3. Kathleen S. Shafer                                                Senior Research Specialist at 3M, Minnesota

  4. Richard Brown                                      Distinguished Professor, University of Utah,  Founder and CEO – e-Sens,                 Founder - Sensicore,                                      Co-founder – i-Sens, and Mobius Microsystems

Workshop

Informal Science Communication

Conducted in collaboration with Bell Museum

Session 1

Date: 08/28/2025

Session 2

Date: 10/09/2025

Session 3

Date: TBD

Workshop

Lens of the Market: A model for guided translation of research to innovations and researchers to innovators

Conducted by ecosVC

Session 1

Place: University of Utah

Date: 08/11/2025

Session 2

Place: University of Oregon

Date: TBD

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