Instructions to create your Grand Slide

• Copy the blank slide (number 2) and add your information as noted. Check out other examples in this deck. We will print the deck for posting at the Dec 1 event.
• Attend the event, Dec. 1 in CPC 1010/1015 bring some business cards or note paper with you.
• Learn about a Grand Thinking funding opportunity.

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Name (copy slide to edit)�

Collaboration Interests

Title

Department, Program/Email

Add details about how you would like to collaborate with faculty across disciplines here…

Skills to Share

List some skills you have that you would be willing to share with other faculty across disciplines…

Courses to Integrate

• List the courses you teach that you would like to enhance with multidisciplinary collaboration

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Neeraj Buch�

Collaboration Interests

Professor, Dean and Associate Provost

Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department -

Environmental Sustainability, Health & Safety Program

Sustainable construction materials, construction and design of sustainable transportation infrastructure, curriculum design, outcome based education, accreditation

Skills to Share

Sustainable construction materials, construction and design of sustainable transportation infrastructure, student engagement in large enrollment courses, student management teams

Courses to Integrate

• Construction Materials, Design and Rehabilitation of Pavements

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Lisa Greenwood�

Collaboration Interests

Assistant Professor

Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department -

Environmental Sustainability, Health & Safety Program

Management systems, risk management, collaborative governance in connection with environmental sustainability, integrating national/international standards in the curriculum, environmental sustainability

Skills to Share

Risk management, interest-based problem solving, implementation of national/international management systems standards (especially in connection with environment, energy, quality, and occupational health & safety)

Courses to Integrate

• Environmental, Health and Safety Management; Principles of Environmental Sustainability, Health and Safety, Graduate Project

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Krista Vardabash�

Collaboration Interests

Business Development

Executive Education, Saunders College of Business

Understanding what resources are available for executive education.

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Skills to Share

Good at designing learning events for executives, Business consulting

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Courses to Integrate

• Executive education

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Deborah Blizzard�

Collaboration Interests

Professor

Department of Science, Technology, and Society

I am a sociocultural theorist working at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and technology studies. My current work lies in liminal spaces, social robotics, and the emergence of Lovotics, authenticity, and desire. Of particular interest is the reimagination/reinterpretation of the life sized doll as Simulacra, Other, and Companion.

ethnography

feminist pedagogy

critical thinking

gender studies

Courses to Integrate

• Biomedical Issues: Science and Technology
• Gender, Science, and Technology
• Cyborg Theory: (Re)Thinking the Human Experience in the 21st Century
• Science, Technology, Values (100 level/intro/survey)

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Ann Howard

Collaboration Interests

Professor

Science, Technology and Society

Community engagement

Appropriate technology Transfer

Urban data science and community engagement

Grand challenges

SDGs and community sustainability

Skills to share

Community-based participatory action research

Asset-based community development

Ethical community partnerships

Qualitative Research methods

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Courses to Integrate

• Sustainable Communities (undergrad and grad)

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Sarah Brownell�

Collaboration Interests

Senior Lecturer

Engineering Leadership, KGCOE

I am interested in collaborating with others around:

• Grand Challenges
• Community engagement
• Technology and ethics

Skills to Share

I have some expertise in the following:

• Community engagement, Popular education, Participatory methods
• Human Centered Design
• Systems Practice, Wicked Problems
• Sanitation, Composting, Water Treatment

Courses to Integrate

• Multidisciplinary Senior Design
• Grand Challenges

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Jennifer Schneider�

Collaboration Interests

Professor

Fram Chair and CET

Applied Critical Thinking across disciplines AND

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Community Resilience, Climate Change, technological and other disruptions

Risk management and analysis, systems design

Skills to Share

Applied Critical Thinking, Risk analysis, systems, process analysis, cross disciplinary curricular design

Courses to Integrate

• Research methods, Disaster Science, Thesis and Grad Project.

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Lara Goulart

Collaboration Interests

Lecturer

Industrial Design CAD

Visual thinking/presentation of projects

Students working together in a social/community project

Multidisciplinary projects for Capstone

Designing for research-based disciplines (taking the research results and making products/digital experiences)

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Skills to share

Design thinking

Human-centered methods

Drawing for project visualization

Project management tools

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Courses to Integrate

• IDDE 407 ID Senior Capstone
• IDDE ID Studio
• IDDE 102 Design Drawing
• IDDE 307 Graphic Tactics

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Matt Marshall

Collaboration Interests

Professor and Associate Dean

Kate Gleason College of Engineering

As Associate Dean I am involved in a number of initiatives that involve opportunities for transdisciplinary work, including Grand Challenges, KEEN, and the RIT Honors Program. I also am passionate about study abroad and lead a program in Rennes, France. I think study abroad offers opportunities for additional collaboration.

Skills to Share

Human Factors

Ergonomics and Biomechanics

Design of Experiments/Applied Statistics

Courses to Integrate

• Product Innovation - First Year KGCOE Honors Course
• Manufacturing and Supply Chain - Second Year KGCOE Honors Course
• Leadership/Ethics/Sustainability - Second Year KGCOE Honors Course

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Christine Keiner�

Collaboration Interests

Professor and Chair

Science, Technology, and Society Department, College of Liberal Arts

I am interested in collaborating on projects regarding the history of technoscience initiatives, especially regarding environmental projects and effects.

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My own research on the history of marine/aquatic invasion biology entails many potentially collaborative tasks, including interviewing scientists and resource users and locating and digitizing ephemera (e.g. zebra mussel newsletters).

Skills to Share

Grant writing, oral history interviewing, archival research and analysis

Courses to Integrate

• STSO 510: STS Capstone Seminar
• STSO 326: History of Ecology and Environmentalism
• STSO 246: History of Women in Science and Engineering
• HIST 345: Environmental Disasters

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Kaitlin Stack Whitney�

Collaboration Interests

Assistant Professor

Science, Technology & Society, College of Liberal Arts

There's growing interest within STEM fields to understand the historical and ongoing cultures that shape disciplines and careers. For example, my home discipline of entomology (study of insects), like many biological fields, is grappling with a history of eugenics and white supremacy. Unpacking this is best done with fields that already study them, like science studies (STS). I hope and welcome more collaboration across departments and colleges to put science and technology into context - it can help students think critically about how knowledge is created and with what assumptions - and what other worlds and assumptions are possible.

Skills to share

• accessibility / a11y / UD / UDL
• topical: insects, plants, policy, ableism in bio and enviro fields
• quantitative (statistics, R/R Studio programming, feminist data methods)
• qualitative (content analysis, critical discourse analysis, case study analysis)
• Open Education Resources (OER) and open access (e.g. zine) writing and publication

Courses to Integrate

• Introduction to Environmental Studies (100 level nonmajors survey)
• Environment and Society (200 level nonmajors)
• Biodiversity and Society (400/600 upper level/grad course)

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Juilee Decker�

Collaboration Interests

Professor

History Department

Program Director, Museum Studies

• collaborations that center museums, libraries, and archives as accessible spaces for learning and engagement and also as sites for activism, advocacy, and agency, including address of the UN SDGs.
• ways that we can connect the research and practice in a wide range of technological innovation (AR, VR, XR and MSI) and digital initiatives at RIT to support the work of museums, broadly defined (i.e., visitor engagement, collections management…)

Skills to Share

• archival and other forms of primary research and analysis
• working with museum collections and sites
• I coordinate the university-wide partnership with Genesee Country Village & Museum. Let’s talk if you think you would like to do a project onsite or to invite staff from the museum to share their expertise.
• NEH Research & Development Grant PR-268783-20, Low-Cost End-to-End Spectral Imaging System for Historical Document Discovery

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Courses to Integrate

• MUSE 220: Introduction to Museums
• MUSE 360: Visitor Engagement & Museum Technologies
• MUSE 359: Cultural Informatics

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Dan Phillips�

Collaboration Interests

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Faculty Associate, Effective Access Tech

Collaborate with faculty and students from any program in the community-based discovery, development and assessment of assistive/augmentive technologies.

Resources

• Strong connections and relationships with a wide variety of community organizations associated with healthcare, rehabilitation and not-for-profits providing services for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
• RIT/Al Sigl Community of Agencies - LiveAbility Lab
• Access Technology Prototyping Lab

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Programs that benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration

• IdeaLab
• Studio930
• Multidisciplinary Senior Design
• Graduate capstones in engineering and design

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Tony Harkin�

Collaboration Interests

School of Mathematical Sciences

Collaborate with RIT faculty and students on public opinion polling using the national polling platform we have created called icitizen.com. Our site icitizen.com has users across all 50 states.

Skills to Share

Conducting polls and surveys

Polling methodology

Statistics

Data visualization

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Courses to Integrate

Student capstone and thesis projects

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Neha Sood

Collaboration Interests

Assistant Director for Campus Sustainability; Adjunct Faculty

RIT Strategic Planning and Sustainability

• Campus as a living lab for sustainability - our team has a “wish list” of capstone/senior design projects related to sustainability appropriate for any college. Please connect with me if this is of interest to you!
• Sustainability and environmental justice
• Sustainable food systems

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Skills to Share

Sustainability at RIT, campus and community partnerships, regional climate action planning

Courses to Integrate

• Greening of RIT
• Explorations of Place and Space

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Kristoffer Whitney�

Collaboration Interests

Associate Professor

Science, Technology, and Society

I am an environmental studies researcher, interested in collaborating on the social, political, and ethical dimensions of ecological sciences.

Skills to Share

Archival and ethnographic research methods.

Grant writing.

Courses to Integrate

• STS/Environmental Studies Capstone
• Nature and Quantification
• Industry, Environment, and Community in Rochester

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Lori Resch

Collaboration Interests

Visiting Lecturer

Industrial Design CAD

Intersection of design, biology, biotechnology, and sustainability

UN sustainability goals

Materials science

Grand Challenges

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Skills to Share

2D and 3D communication of ideas and information (illustration/modelmaking)

Rapid concept generation

Speculative thinking

Storytelling

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Courses to Integrate

• Biodesign Challenge (so far has run with Junior ID students, but would love to find a way to crosslist or collaborate with someone)
• Check out biodesignchallenge.org, and email me at lmrfaa@rit.edu if interested
• Senior ID Capstone

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