Penn Grad Talks is an afternoon of TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs.
2020 PENN GRAD TALKS WINNERS
Group Presentations
Cameo Hazlewood and Justin Thompson, Behavioral and Decision Sciences
Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Increase Concussion Symptom Reporting Among High School Athletes (video)
Professional Mater's
Darlene Marshall, Master of Applied Positive Psychology
Building the Self So You Can Give It Away - The Upward Cycle of Self-Improvement (video)
Social Sciences
Nicole Welk-Joerger, History and Sociology of Science
It's Not Easy Eating Green (video)
Humanities
Johanna Kaiser, Classical Studies
Making Scents of Ancient Rome in the Epigrams of Martial (video)
Natural Sciences
Michael O'Shea, Earth & Environmental Science
Urban Road Dust: Investigating Philly's Street Gunk as Both Source and Sink for Pollutants (video)
Audience Choice
Darlene Marshall, Master of Applied Positive Psychology
Building the Self So You Can Give It Away - The Upward Cycle of Self-Improvement (video)
2019 PENN GRAD TALKS WINNERS
Professional Master's
Connor Joyce, Behavioral and Decision Sciences
To Fear or Not To Fear Automation: A Review of Research Covering Artificial Intelligence's Effect on Work (video)
Social Sciences
Yun Cha, Sociology
Who Do Graduate Degree Holders Marry? How the Separation of Advanced Degrees Affects Our Understanding of Trends in Educational Homogamy (video)
Humanities
Gregory Callaghan, Ancient History
If You Can't Walk the Walk, Then Talk the Talk: Status and International Relations in the Hellenistic World (video)
Natural Sciences
Paul Masih Das, Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Materials: Making Smartphones "Cool" Again (video)
Audience Choice
Lorena Levano, Behavioral and Decision Sciences
Sexual Harassment in High Schools From a Social Norms Perspective (video)
2018 PENN GRAD TALKS WINNERS
Professional Master's
Patrick Osei, Master of Applied Geosciences
Groundwater Contamination on Obuasi, Ghana (video)
Social Sciences
Rebecca Umbach, Criminology
Aggression and Sleep: A Daylight Saving Time Quasi-Experiment (video)
Humanities
Kendra Grimmett, History of Art
Looking at Art with Your Body in Mind (video)
Natural Sciences
Kieran Dunne
Mud and the Shape of Rivers (video)
Audience Choice
Garrett Meccariello and Tobias Nasgarde, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences
The Marketer's Antagonist: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Reduce Unnecessary Spending Behavior in Cashless Environments (video)
2017 PENN GRAD TALKS WINNERS
Humanities
Mary Zaborkis
Age Drag (video)
Natural Sciences
Jonathan Johnnidis
Stem Cells Lead the Way to More Graceful Aging (video)
Professional Master's/Other Category
Bryan Currinder
Conserving Freshwater Systems in Bangladesh and Bhutan through Biomonitoring (video)
Social Sciences and Audience Choice Award
Haley Pilgrim
Accidentally Passing: The Identity Choices of Phenotypically White-Black Multiracials (video)