The 2022 event was held in a hybrid format on Thursday, July 14th (virtually, via Zoom) and on Friday, July 15th (in-person, at Cornell University).
Agenda
Virtual day (July 14, 2022) @ Zoom:
Caylyn Railey
9:30 AM – 9:35 AM: Welcoming Remarks
Maya Martirossyan
9:35 AM – 11:10 AM: Plant Biology
moderator: Rachael Skye
- Classroom Activity/Talk: Caylyn Railey: Mutant Plant Mystery
- materials: presentation slides, worksheets
- Resources: Wisconsin Fast Plants, Basic Plant Structure and Function
- Classroom Activity/Talk: Aimee Schulz and Merritt Khaipho-Burch: Cabbages and their cousins: the dogs of the plant world
- materials: presentation slides, worksheets, template, cut-outs
- zine
11:10 AM – 12:10 PM: Physics
moderator: Zoe Pollard
- Research talk: Sam Bright-Thonney: Searching for Invisible Matter with the World’s Largest Camera
- materials: presentation slides
- Classroom Activity: Rachael Cohn and Virginia McGhee: Fourier Transforms of Musical Notes
- “Introduction to waves” (Python notebook on Google Colaboratory)
- “Sound file Fourier transform” (Python notebook on Google Colaboratory)
- materials: presentation slides, “Introduction to waves” jupyter notebook, “Sound file Fourier transform” jupyter notebook, example sound files
- Research Talk: Vaibhav Sharma: Studying atoms that are a billion times colder than outer space
- materials: presentation slides
12:10 PM – 12:30 PM: Panel
moderator: Maya Martirossyan
- Graduate School “Ask Us Anything”
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Animal Biology
moderator: Abigail Nason
- Classroom Activity: Agustín Olivo: Combining science, math and computer software tools to improve the environmental sustainability of dairy farming
- materials: presentation slides
- Research Talk: Vivek Thangavelu and Prof. Nils Napp: Bio-inspired Robotics
- materials: presentation slides
- Research Talk: Cleo Liu and Jacob Nixon: Gut microbiome and bone health
- presentation recording
- materials: presentation slides
2:45 PM – 3:50 PM: Chemistry
moderator: Maya Martirossyan
- Research Talk: Tom Ugras: Properties & Applications of Quantum Dots
- materials: presentation slides
- Lab Tour: Ahmed Alsmaeil (Giannelis Lab)
- materials: presentation slides
- Activity: Abby Nason: Using Density to Sort Recyclables
- materials: presentation slides, worksheets
In-Person Day (July 15th, 2022) @ Cornell University:
Rachael Skye delivering welcome remarks
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM: Welcoming Remarks
Rachael Skye
10:10 AM – 11:55 AM: Classroom Activities & Research Talk
moderator: Rachael Skye
- Classroom Activity: Nathan Scinto-Madonich: Feast or Famine: The dynamic nature of plant environmental responses
- materials: presentation slides, lab notebook
- Research Talk: Matt Barone: Crystal Discovery and Engineering
- materials: presentation slides
- Classroom Activity: Eric Hebert: Understanding Optical Polarization
- Polarization Visualizer (web app)
- materials: presentation slides, write-up
- Classroom Activity: Merritt Khaipho-Burch and Aimee Schulz: Plant Domestication and Adaptation: A Seed Dispersal Game
- materials: presentation slides
- zine
11:55 AM – 12:55 PM: Lunch
12:55 PM – 3:55 PM: Facility Tour, Classroom Activity, & Lab Tours
- Facility tour: Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) or Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility (CNF)
- Classroom Activity: CHESS (Ben Gregory)
- materials: presentation slides
- Classroom Activity: CNF (Tom Pennell)
- Lab Tour: Jena Shields (in vivo Fluid Dynamics Lab)
- Lab Tour: Jesse Hsu (Fors Lab)
- materials: presentation slides
- materials from Jesse’s contribution to REACT 2020: recording, activity sheet (grades 6–8), activity sheet (grades 9–12), activity description
Organizing team – Cornell REACT 2022
Rachael Skye (MSE)
Maya Martirossyan (MSE)
Zoe Pollard (BEE)
Abigail Nason (MSE)
Bilal Azhar (MSE)
(MSE = Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
BEE = Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering)
Sponsors
Faculty Sponsors
Vice President for Research and Innovation, Professor Emmanuel Giannelis
Professor Jefferson Tester
Associate Professor Richard Robinson
Assistant Professor Brad Ramshaw
Assistant Professor Chao-Ming Jian
Professor Edward Buckler
Associate Professor Jin Suntivich
Assistant Professor Andrew Nelson
Assistant Professor Julia Dshemuchadse
Departmental Sponsors
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Applied and Engineering Physics
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Physics
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
School of Integrative Plant Science
Partnering Organizations
