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SUMMARY:Race or Racism? The Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth
DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite you to attend the PROTECT (Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats) Spring 2021 Webinar\, “Race or Racism?  The Black-White Disparity in Preterm Birth.” \nDr. Paula Braveman\, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health at the University of California\, San Francisco will talk about racism as leading to health-harming experiences and exposures that should be considered possible contributors to racial disparities in preterm birth rates.  To learn more about Dr. Braveman and her work\, and for a description of the upcoming webinar\, please visit the PROTECT website. \nThis webinar will be presented via Zoom Online Meetings and if you are able to join us\, please register at the following link – REGISTER. \nIf you have any questions about the webinar or experience any issues with registration\, please contact Kristin Hicks directly at k.hicks@northeastern.edu\, or 617-373-5384.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/race-or-racism-the-black-white-disparity-in-preterm-birth/
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: 'What's the big deal about COVID-19 variants and why should we care?'
DESCRIPTION:The Bioengineering Department presents speaker Lee Makowski for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the public. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://northeastern.zoom.us/j/95153700231?pwd=R0ZMUG50Tm9tRDRqQnZZWjFheXJXdz09 \nMeeting ID: 951 5370 0231\nPasscode: 312358\nOne tap mobile\n+13017158592\,\,95153700231#\,\,\,\,*312358# US (Washington DC)\n+13126266799\,\,95153700231#\,\,\,\,*312358# US (Chicago) \n\n‘What’s the big deal about COVID-19 variants and why should we care?’ \nLee Makowski Professor and Department Chair\, Department of Bioengineering \nLee Makowski\, Professor and Department Chair\, Department of Bioengineering \nVaccines developed to protect against infection with SARS CoV-2 virus are less effective against some viral variants that have recently arisen.  How is that possible\, and what can we do about it?  In this presentation I will outline how vaccines are designed\, why some variants can evade neutralization by the vaccines and others cannot\, and discuss why I believe there will be ‘booster’ vaccines developed against the variants\, probably available by late summer. \nDr. Makowski is Professor and Chair of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University.  He has a BS in Physics from Brown University and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.  His research interests focus on the molecular basis of biological processes. In 2010\, he moved from Argonne National Laboratory where he was Biosciences Division Director and Senior Scientist to Northeastern University where he accepted a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry and Chemical Biology.  In January 2014 Dr. Makowski was appointed as Interim Chair of the newly established Department of Bioengineering and became Chair in September 2015.  His current research program aspires to understand the inception and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.  With the emergence of COVID-19\, he redirected his efforts to try to understand the array of unexpected extrapulmonary impacts SARS CoV-2 has on some patients. \nDownload Flyer (pdf)
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-whats-the-big-deal-about-covid-19-variants-and-why-should-we-care/
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SUMMARY:AIX SEMINAR SERIES
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to join the \nAIX SEMINAR\nMonday\, Feb 22\, 3:00 PM EST \nZoom Link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/96209636039 \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nAssistive Robots for People with Severe Motor Impairments \nDr. Maria Kyrarini\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, the University of Texas at Arlington \nIntroducing the Open Mocap Project \nDr. Jon Matthis\, Northeastern University\, Professor of Biology  \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \n \nAssistive Robots for People with Severe Motor Impairments  \nDr. Maria Kyrarini | Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, the University of Texas at Arlington \nAbstract: Assistive robotic manipulators have the potential to support individuals with severe motor impairments to regain some of their independence in performing Activities of Daily Living. For individuals with tetraplegia\, which is the paralysis of all limbs\, interaction with assistive robotic manipulators is a very challenging task. In this talk\, I will present two interaction approaches to enable a person with tetraplegia to drink with the assistance of a robotic manipulator. The first approach focuses on enabling people with tetraplegia to teach the robot how to assist them with drinking. The second approach focuses on an autonomous multi-sensory robotic system\, which assists with straw-less drinking. Experimental results for both approaches will be presented. Furthermore\, I will conclude the talk with a brief discussion of future research challenges. \nBio: Maria Kyrarini is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas at Arlington under the advisement of Professor Dr. Fillia Makedon. She is also the assistant director of the Heracleia Human-Centered Computing Lab. In 2019\, Maria received her Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Bremen under the supervision of Professor Dr.-Eng. Axel Gräser. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is: “Robot learning from human demonstrations for human-robot synergy”. Before that\, she received her M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and her M.Sc. degree in Automation Systems both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and 2014\, respectively. Her primary research interests are in the fields of Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations\, Human-Robot Interaction\, and Assistive Robotics with a special focus on Enhancing Human Performance. \nWebpage: https://sites.google.com/view/mariakyrarini/home \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nIntroducing the Open Mocap Project  \nDr. Jon Matthis | Professor of Biology\, Northeastern University \nAbstract: I will present an update to the Open Mocap project\, which aims to develop a free\, open-source\, camera hardware and tracking software agnostic system for 3D motion capture of humans\, non-human animals\, and robots. The current iteration looks something like this: \nhttps://twitter.com/JonMatthis/status/1351531974364688385 \nBio: Jon Matthis is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Northeastern University. Jon’s research focuses primarily on the visual control of human walking\, with an emphasis on the way that the biomechanics of bipedal gait shapes the use of visual information during locomotion over real world rough terrain. To this end\, he has developed an apparatus that accurately records full-body motion capture and eye tracking data of people walking outdoors over real-world rocky terrain. Using this data\, he hopes to explain the way that humans use eye movements to extract information from their environment in order to facilitate stable and efficient locomotion over complex and difficult terrain. \n_________________________________________ \nPlease sign up to receive further AIX seminar notifications \nPresented by the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: MIE Alumni/Faculty Panel and Trivia
DESCRIPTION:The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department is hosting an alumni/faculty panel and trivia for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the public. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nMeeting ID: 983 4636 8614\nPasscode: 637919 \n\nMIE Alumni/Faculty Panel and Trivia \nStudents will have opportunities to ask about careers\, research\, academia\, and discuss how they are imagining tomorrow as Engineers. Following the discussion\, we will host trivia where students in teams will answer a wide range of questions for prizes and work with other students! \nPanel participants: \n\nAnubama Chinnakannan\, Application Engineer\, Schneider Electric\nSafa Jamali\, Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University\nHongli Zhu\, Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University\nRuobing Bai\, Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University\nKayse Maass: Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University\nSimisola Familusi: Manufacturing quality engineer\, Apple\n\nDownload Flyer (pdf)
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-mie-alumni-faculty-panel-and-trivia/
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