Convo with Cantwell

Join Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation, for a "fireside chat" discussion on building your brand with UArizona experts. The discussion will focus on social media, marketing your work, and best practices for building a professional brand and leveraging your identity online to form connections and bring visibility to your work.

Livestream: April 21, 2022 3:00 PM

Topic: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Application at the University of Arizona

Panelists:

Paul E. Brierley, Executive Director, Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture

William Duke Pauli, Assistant Professor with the school of Plant Sciences

Murat Kacira, Director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Program and Professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering

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Join Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation, for a "fireside chat" discussion on building your brand with UArizona experts. The discussion will focus on social media, marketing your work, and best practices for building a professional brand and leveraging your identity online to form connections and bring visibility to your work.

Livestream: March 31, 2022 2:00 PM

Topic: Building Your Brand

Panelists:

Michael D. L. Johnson, Assistant Professor, Immunobiology 
Lehman Benson, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Eller College
Erika Hamden, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy
Rocque Perez, Marketing Strategist, Research, Innovation & Impact

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Join Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation, for a "fireside chat" discussion on student experiential learning with UArizona experts. 

Livestream February 25, 2022 10:00am

Topic: Experiential Learning: What it is and why it's important

Panelists:

• Brian Ellerman, Founding Director, Arizona FORGE
• Ewan Douglas, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy & Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory
• Rebecca Lipson, TIMESTEP Program Coordinator, UA Societal Impact

The discussion will be livestreamed. Registration is required.

Join us December 13 at 3 p.m. for the next Convo with Cantwell, a monthly "fireside chat" hosted by Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation. December's chat will feature a discussion with three experts on issues related to the complexity of the global supply chain. 

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Monday, December 13, 3 - 4 p.m. 
TOPIC: Ripple Effects of Disruptions in the Global Supply Chain

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

• Tom Evans, Professor, School of Geography, Development & Environment
• Ken Gyure, Lecturer, Eller College of Management
• Wei Hua Lin, Professor, Systems and Industrial Engineering

Join us November 22 at 3 p.m. for the next Convo with Cantwell featuring a discussion with three researchers who traveled to Glasgow for COP26.

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Monday, November 22, 3 - 4 p.m.
TOPIC: COP26: What Happened and What it Means

PANEL OF EXPERTS

• Andrew C. Comrie, professor and director, School of Geography, Development & Environment
• Diane Thompson, assistant professor, College of Geosciences
• Jennifer Verdolin, assistant professor of practice, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

More links from the episode:

• COP26 - United Nations
• The text of the Glasgow Climate Pact
• School of Natural Resources and the Environment now offering Climate Change and Society Minor for undergraduates!

Join us October 12 at 3 p.m. for the next Convo with Cantwell, featuring a discussion on the future challenges of academic research computing. Panelists include Liesl Folks, Arizona's senior vice president and provost and special guest Barney Maccabe. Division Director, Computer Science and Math at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Tuesday, October 12, 3 p.m. 
TOPIC: The Future Challenges of Academic Research Computing

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

• Liesl Folks, Senior Vice President and Provost
• Barney Maccabe. Division Director, Computer Science and Math at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Join us Sept. 27 at 1 pm for a special Convo with Cantwell, where we'll follow up with the University's Racial Equity in Research initiative and discuss steps taken, progress made, and work still to be done.  Institutional investments have been made towards increased data transparency, establishing a mentoring institute, improving the bias reporting system, examining promotion and tenure, internal research funds dedicated to examining or addressing racial inequities, developing new training resources and more. Each panelist will provide additional detail and be available to answer your questions.

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Monday, September 27, 1 p.m. 
TOPIC: Toward Achieving Racial Equity in Research: Progress & Next Steps

Our panelists will include:

• Andrea J Romero, Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs
• Judy Marquez Kiyama, Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Development 
• Ravneet Chadha, Associate Vice President, University Analytics & Institutional Research 
• Ivy Banks, Associate Vice Provost, Diversity & Inclusion
• Jen Fields, Director, Societal Impact

Join Dr. Cantwell as she leads her monthly live fireside chat designed to improve communications campus wide and answer questions about the University's research and innovation enterprise. Please note, you MUST register for this event even if you've registered for past Convos.

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Thursday, March 18, 3:00 p.m. 
TOPIC: Women Entrepreneurs: Ideas and Innovation

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

• Joann MacMaster, Chief Executive Officer, Desert Angels 
• Sadhana Ravishankar, Associate Professor, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, UArizona
• Hong Hua, Professor, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, UArizona
• Colleen Janczak, Chief Operating Officer, Scintillation Nanotechnologies

Join Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation, for a discussion on the benefits of open science and open access for researchers. Panelists include Julie E. Miller, assistant professor, College of Science, Nirav Merchant, director, UA Data Science Institute and co-PI, CyVerse, and Bryan Heidorn, professor, School of Information, and director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies.

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Tuesday, May 25, 2:00 p.m. 
TOPIC: Open science and open access

PANEL OF EXPERTS:

• Julie E. Miller, Assistant Professor, College of Science, and Member, BIO5 Institute
• Stephanie Russo Carroll, Assistant Professor of Public Health,  Associate Director for the Native Nations Institute, and Assistant Research Professor at the Udall Center
• Bryan Heidorn, Professor, School of Information, and Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies

WHAT: A monthly fireside chat
WHEN: Thursday, April 22, 3:00 p.m. 
TOPIC: Futurecasting Your Research

Register now for this afternoon's 3:00 p.m. Zoom fireside chat with Elizabeth "Betsy" Cantwell, senior vice president for research and innovation. The discussion will focus on sentient tools that can leverage artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent mobility, Internet of Things, Smart Cities, and cloud intelligence. This interactive discussion will help you turn a futurecasting lens on your own thinking, potentially driving the kinds of impacts your research can have.

Cyndi Coon, founder and CEO of Laboratory5 Inc., will lead the discussion and provide a demonstration of threatcasting, a conceptual methodology that enables multidisciplinary groups to envision and plan systematically against threats ten years in the future and uses inputs from social science, technical research, cultural history, economics, trends, expert interviews, and even a little science fiction to explore how to transform the future they desire into reality while avoiding an undesired future. A human-centric process, it allows decision-makers and practitioners to imagine what needs to be done today, as well as four and eight years into the future, to empower or disrupt targeted future scenarios.

Additionally, SVP Cantwell will be joined by RII Chief of Staff John O'Neil; Vice President of Operations Sangita Pawar; and Assistant Vice President of Research Intelligence Lori Schultz.

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