Research and "Lightning Talks"

After the success of the "Research Highlights" event last September, the SILS Research and Development committee has planned a "lightning talk" event on March 28th at 3:30 p.m. to feature research of SILS doctoral students and faculty. 

This event will take place in Manning Hall Room 307 and will feature a series of brief talks about research undertaken by SILS doctoral students and faculty, including:

Name: Sumayya Ahmed

Title: Publicize, Digitize, Valorise: Issue of Access, Custody, and Preservation with Private Manuscript Collections in Morocco

Name: Kathy Brennan

Title: Effort and Interaction: Towards understanding how cost shapes information-interaction

Name: Rob Capra

Title: Awareness of Actions in a Collaborative Search Interface

Name: Kaitlin Costello

Title: Soliciting Kidney Donors Online

Name: Reagan Moore

Title: LifeTime Library

Name: Arcot Rajasekar

Title: Self-aware Data

Name: Sarah Ramdeen

Title: Public repertoires and private sets: Notes of interdisciplinary researchers collaborating together and alone

Name: Derek Rodriguez

Tite: Understanding library impacts on student learning

Name: Brian Sturm

Title: Increasing Children's Immersion in Reading

Name: Zeynep Tufekci

Title: Arab Uprisings to Facebook Setting: Social Impacts of Technology

Name: Wan-Ching Wu

Title: Task Complexity, Vertical Salience and User Interaction in Aggregated Search