4/8/21, 5pm PST — A Cross-Disciplinary Student Panel With The Yale Undergraduate Research Organization (YURA)
As the world continues to debate hot topics such as racism and colonization, Yale students are providing important insights on these issues through groundbreaking research on apartheid, decolonization as well as STEM research into how the environmental landscape influences our health.
As the world continues to debate hot topics such as racism and colonization, Yale students are providing important insights on these issues through groundbreaking research on apartheid, decolonization as well as STEM research into how the environmental landscape influences our health.
As the world continues to debate hot topics such as racism and colonization, Yale students are providing important insights on these issues through groundbreaking research on apartheid, decolonization as well as STEM research into how the environmental landscape influences our health.
The Yale Club of Silicon Valley is delighted to host a student panel with the Yale Undergraduate Research Organization (YURA) for our alumni community. YURA is a non-profit 501 c3 founded on campus in 2015 to connect undergraduate students with faculty and mentors for research and publication opportunities across all disciplines. Their flagship initiatives include running a Research Database, publishing the Yale Undergraduate Research Journal, and hosting the Research Symposium for the Yale community.
Please join us to hear from a cross-disciplinary group of three undergraduate Yalies who will share highlights from their research findings, and also talk about what's new and happening at Yale. This is a great opportunity to support our students who are undergoing quite the year of challenges in a COVID-19 environment. We will start off the panel with introductions, followed by 10-minute presentations from each of the students on their research topics below. The evening will end with an open Q&A for all.
"The Seriousness of Play:" Humor as Resistance in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Ellie Burke, Class of 2024. Ellie explores the tradition of how humor has long emerged in reaction to tragedy throughout history, focusing on how comedy combats the legacy of apartheid in South Africa. Through her analysis of the works of avant-garde artist William Kentridge and comedian Trevor Noah, Ellie dissects their brands of humor and their life experiences of using comedy as a means of defiantly stating the “unspeakable truths” of a nation’s past.
Metabolic Control of Stem Cell Aging and Longevity through Caloric Restriction - Valerie Navarrete, Class of 2021. Valerie will present her elucidation of research models to better define how the environment, irrespective of age, determines health -- and how we can harness this to better define determinants of age-related diseases. This research emphasizes the connection between macro and micro biology, and how understanding the environment is crucial in characterizing a cellular response.
Decolonization: The Litmus Test of the Human Rights Framework - Isiuwa Omoigui, Class of 2023. Isiuwa examines the complicated relationship between anticolonial activism and the human rights framework that emerged in the wake of World War II. Examples will include drawing on the conceptions of human rights as an individual entitlement and the collectivist nature of African anticolonial struggles.