Postdoctoral STEAM Exchange: Origins

STEAM Exchange
September 19, 2024
6:00PM - 8:00PM
400 West Rich St, 2nd Floor, Columbus, Ohio, 43215

Date Range
2024-09-19 18:00:00 2024-09-19 20:00:00 Postdoctoral STEAM Exchange: Origins You are warmly invited to join us for our kickoff Postdoc STEAM Exchange, Topic: Origins, from 6-8pm on September 19th at the STEAM Factory!! These monthly salon-style seminars provide an excellent opportunity to meet scholars from across the university for a lively, engaging, informative, disciplinarily diverse, and well-catered evening! These events, which will focus on Postdocs, will feature great opportunities to hear from Postdoc researchers, as well as the opportunity to meet new potential colleagues!Bring a friend! STEAM Exchanges provide a great opportunity to introduce new folks to our STEAM community and you are encouraged and welcome to bring a colleague or friend. (**Please make sure guests register with the link below so we have enough food for everyone.)Register HereWhat are Postdoctoral STEAM Exchanges?The STEAM Factory is in the process of developing a series of STEAM Exchanges for postdocs. These events for postdocs will occur quarterly (September 2024, December 2024, March 2025, June 2025) and are salon-style seminars centered around broad thematic topics/themes. These themed interdisciplinary seminars bring the perspectives of multiple disciplines to bear on a single subject (example topics include 'Conflict', 'Progress', 'Perseverance', 'Evolution', or 'Growth'). Diverse speakers are invited to present on their research and discipline as it relates to the thematic topic. These discussions are intended to highlight current research, bringing multiple disciplinary perspectives to bear on a single issue with the purpose of enhancing scholarly community and sense of belonging, identifying opportunities for cross-collaboration, practicing presentation abilities, and to encourage the sharing of individual expertise, tools and resources.The theme for the postdoc STEAM Exchange on September 19th will be: Origins. (Examples of how to interpret this theme: your origins, the origin of your research, the origins of a specific organism you're studying, origins of the conflict between two people groups you're studying, the formation of a specific art style, etc.)To participate: postdoc presenters will be asked to prepare a 2 minute presentation and 1 slide on their specific topic within this broad theme (examples will be provided). This is a great opportunity to practice your "elevator pitch" or to simulate quickly describing your research or background to individuals you meet with during interview processes in the job search and communicating about your research to a lay audience or members of the general population.Benefits of attending and presenting at STEAM Exchanges:Learn and share current research endeavors across disciplines on a single topical issueShare tools, resources and data sets to enhance research and teaching methodsIdentify possibilities and contacts for cross-collaboration on research topicsFun, interesting and engaging way of making research connectionsHere are all the details:What: Postdoctoral STEAM Exchange: OriginsWhen: 6 - 8pm on Thursday, September 19th, 2024Where: The STEAM Factory, 2nd floor of 400 W. Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. Free and accessible parking is readily available at the building. 400 West Rich St, 2nd Floor, Columbus, Ohio, 43215 The STEAM Factory at The Ohio State University steamfactory@osu.edu America/New_York public

You are warmly invited to join us for our kickoff Postdoc STEAM Exchange, Topic: Origins, from 6-8pm on September 19th at the STEAM Factory!! These monthly salon-style seminars provide an excellent opportunity to meet scholars from across the university for a lively, engaging, informative, disciplinarily diverse, and well-catered evening! These events, which will focus on Postdocs, will feature great opportunities to hear from Postdoc researchers, as well as the opportunity to meet new potential colleagues!

Bring a friend! STEAM Exchanges provide a great opportunity to introduce new folks to our STEAM community and you are encouraged and welcome to bring a colleague or friend. (**Please make sure guests register with the link below so we have enough food for everyone.)

Register Here

What are Postdoctoral STEAM Exchanges?

The STEAM Factory is in the process of developing a series of STEAM Exchanges for postdocs. These events for postdocs will occur quarterly (September 2024, December 2024, March 2025, June 2025) and are salon-style seminars centered around broad thematic topics/themes. These themed interdisciplinary seminars bring the perspectives of multiple disciplines to bear on a single subject (example topics include 'Conflict', 'Progress', 'Perseverance', 'Evolution', or 'Growth'). Diverse speakers are invited to present on their research and discipline as it relates to the thematic topic. These discussions are intended to highlight current research, bringing multiple disciplinary perspectives to bear on a single issue with the purpose of enhancing scholarly community and sense of belonging, identifying opportunities for cross-collaboration, practicing presentation abilities, and to encourage the sharing of individual expertise, tools and resources.

The theme for the postdoc STEAM Exchange on September 19th will be: Origins. (Examples of how to interpret this theme: your origins, the origin of your research, the origins of a specific organism you're studying, origins of the conflict between two people groups you're studying, the formation of a specific art style, etc.)

To participate: postdoc presenters will be asked to prepare a 2 minute presentation and 1 slide on their specific topic within this broad theme (examples will be provided). This is a great opportunity to practice your "elevator pitch" or to simulate quickly describing your research or background to individuals you meet with during interview processes in the job search and communicating about your research to a lay audience or members of the general population.

Benefits of attending and presenting at STEAM Exchanges:

  • Learn and share current research endeavors across disciplines on a single topical issue
  • Share tools, resources and data sets to enhance research and teaching methods
  • Identify possibilities and contacts for cross-collaboration on research topics
  • Fun, interesting and engaging way of making research connections

Here are all the details:

  • What: Postdoctoral STEAM Exchange: Origins
  • When: 6 - 8pm on Thursday, September 19th, 2024
  • Where: The STEAM Factory, 2nd floor of 400 W. Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. Free and accessible parking is readily available at the building.