Grad Ben Talks 2020

Join us for Grad Ben Talks, an afternoon of TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students.

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. 

2020 Schedule:

12 p.m.   GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Vote HERE for your favorite Group Grad Ben Talk- you can only vote once for each category.
Voting will be open from approximately 12 - 1 p.m.
         Does Phone Presence Disrupt Collaborative Performance?
        Noah Beam, Bella Dai, Nathan Rosenstein, Paige Tomlinson, Ruiling Wen, and Cedric Whitney
        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

        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

1 p.m.   PROFESSIONAL MASTER'S PRESENTATIONS
Vote HERE for your favorite Professional Master's Grad Ben Talk - you can only vote once for each category. 
Voting will be open from approximately 1 - 2 p.m.
        Keith Coleman, Master of Applied Positive Psychology
        Student-Athlete or Athlete Student: Social Norm Influence on Character, 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
Vote HERE for your favorite Social Sciences Grad Ben Talk - you can only vote once for each category.
Voting will be open from approximately 2 - 3 p.m.
        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
Vote HERE for your favorite Humanities Grad Ben Talk - you can only vote once for each category.
Voting will be open from approximately 3 - 4 p.m.
        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
Vote HERE for your favorite Natural Sciences Grad Ben Talk - you can only vote once for each category.
Voting will be open from approximately 4 - 5 p.m.
        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

Grad Ben Talks is open to the Penn community and the general public. Click HERE to view winning talks from previous years.