PA3 is proud to present this roster of past
First Friday Luncheons at the Nassau Club
We sincerely thank our guest speakers for making this series so enjoyable!
- 2020: Sarah Hutter Wilterson [PhD candidate Psychology] "Adult learning of skilled movement"
- 2020: Robbie LeDesma [PhD candidate Molecular Biology] "Viruses and the human immune system"
- 2019: Rachit Dubey [PhD candidate Computer Science] "Towards a better understanding of curiosity"
- 2019: Becca Napolitano [PhD candidate Civil Engineering] "Old buildings, new techniques"
- 2019: Joel Finkelstein *18 [Psychology] "Hate and extremism on social media"
- 2018: Lt. Johnathan Falcone [Master in Public Affairs candidate Woodrow Wilson School] "Reflections of an active duty Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy"
- 2018: Kris Pardo [PhD candidate Astrophysical Sciences] "Constraining theories using gravitational wave event data"
- 2018: Mai Nguyen [PhD candidate Psychology] "How we represent complex information in the brain over time"
- 2018: Eda Yetim [M Arch candidate] "Spatialized ornaments into three dimensional landscapes"
- 2018: John Parton '18 [Woodrew Wilson School] "Recusal failure among district court judges"
- 2018: Mayank Misra [PhD candidate - Woodrew Wilson School] "Socio-ecological systems"
- 2018: Nicholas M. Risteen [PhD candidate - Architecture] "After the Disaster: Architecture and Emergency in Extraordinary Time"
- 2018: DongWon Oh [PhD candidate - Psychology] "Gender bias in facial impressions"
- Eric M. Glover [PhD Candidate - English] "Musicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston"
- Andrew Ledford [PhD Candidate - Sociology] "Political Islam"
- Shilpa Nadimpali Kobren [PhD Candidate - Computer Science] "Computational Biology"
- Michael Hepler [PhD Candidate - MAE] "Science and Global Security"
- Adam Lerner [PhD Candidate - Philosophy] "Empathy"
- James A. Smith [PhD Candidate - Geosciences] "Dataset Formats for Seismology"
- Alex Rodnyansky [PhD Candidate - Economics] "Quantitative Easing & Bank Lending"
- Carlee Joe-Wong [PhD Candidate - Applied/Computational Math] "Computer Networking"
- Julie Whittaker [PhD Candidate - WWS] "Jordanian Refugee Camp for Syrians"
- Rajesh Ranganath [PhD Candidate - Computer Science] "Machine Learning"
- Garner Soltes [PhD Candidate - Molecular Biology] " Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance"
- Chris Brinton [ PhD Candidate - Electrical Engineering] "Online Learning"
- Charles Ganoe '51 - "Travels in North Korea"
- Heather Butts '94 - "African American Medicine in Civil War DC"
- Leslie Ribovich [PhD Candidate - Religion] "Public School Education & Morality"
- Brittney Edmonds [PhD Candidate - English] "Commodity Status of Afro-American Slaves"
- Greg Owen '15 - Founder Princeton Institute for Chocolate Studies
- Mazell Tetruashvily [graduate student - Molecular Biology] "Neuromuscular Junction"
- Joel Rozen [PhD Candidate - Anthropology] "Entrepreneurship in Tunisia"
- Jane Manners [Graduate Student - History] "Federal Bailouts"
- Bryn Rosenfeld [PhD Candidate- Politics] "Autocracies and the Middle Class"
- Joshua Spechler [PhD Candidate - Electrical Engineering] "Flexible Electronics"
- Doyle K. Hodges [PhD Student - Woodrow Wilson School] "Democratic Civil-Military Relations "
- Andrew Ledford [PhD Student - Sociology] "Iranian Studies"
- Ian Hogue [Post Doctoral Fellow - Molecular Biology] "Virus Transport and Spread"
- In Song Kim [PhD Candidate - Politics Dept] "Incentives for Trade Liberalization"
- Nimisha Barton [PhD Candidate - History Dept] "Gender and Immigration in 1900's France"
- Friederike Funk [PhD student - Psychology Dept] "Social Psychology of Punishment"
- Jeffrey Parker [PhD Candidate - PPPL] "Turbulence of Plasmas"
- Ryan Harper [2013 PhD - Religion Dept] "Gospel Music and American Evangelicalism"
- Andrew Ledford [PhD Student - Sociology] "Iranian Studies"
- Matthew Howard [PhD Candidate - Molecular Biology Dept] "Brain Study using Viruses"
- Andrew Lieu '06 [friend of PA3] "Thoughts on the Financial Markets"
- Andra Geana [PhD Candidate - Psychology Dept] "Risk and Ambiguity in Human Decision-Making"
- Jason McSheene [PhD Candidate - Molecular Biology Dept] "Left-Right Patterning in Embryos"
- Jim Steichen [PhD Candidate - Dept of Music] "George Balanchine"
- Kate Neal [PhD Candidate - Dept of Music] "New Ideas in Music"
- Nadezhda Savova [PhD - Dept of Anthropology] "International Bread Houses
- Jamol Pender [PhD Candidate - Engineering School/ORFE] “Queueing Theory"
- Allan Doyle [PhD candidate – Art & Archaeology] “ Michaelangelo’s Afterlife in French Art”
- Ismaiel Yakub [2012 PhD – Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering] “Bee Home – Sustainable Building/Temporary Housing"
- Darren Pais [PhD candidate – Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering] “Emergent Collective Behavior of Groups in Biology and in Robots”
- Julianne Werlin [PhD candidate – English] “Early Modern Utopian Literature”
- Josue Sanz-Robinson [PhD candidate – Electrical Engineering] “Flexible, Large-Area, Electronic Systems for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure”
- Michael Todd [PhD candidate – Neuroscience] “Limitations of Human Multitasking or Cognitive Flexibility
- Theodor Brasoveanu [PhD candidate – Physics] “Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse”
- Sarah Fawcett [PhD candidate – Geosciences] “Ocean’s Biological Pump: Storage of Atmospheric CO2 Fixed as Biomass”
- Iain Watts [PhD candidate – History] “History of Galvanism, the now-vanished Science of Electricity”
- Cate Reilly [PhD candidate – Comparative Literature] “Teratology, Wax Anatomy and the Monstrous Text”
- Sarit Kattan Gribetz [PhD candidate – Religion] “History of Jews, Christians and Pagans in Antiquity”
- Taniecea Arceneaux [PhD candidate – Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics] “Resilience of Social Networks with Multiple Relations”
- Cate Reilly [PhD candidate – Comparative Literature] “Rilke and Chekov: Translation and (Play)giarism”
- Wenzhe Cao [PhD candidate – Electrical Engineering] “Digital Skin: Electrodes that Retain Electrical Functionality under Large Mechanical Deformation”
- Taylor Behmke [2011] “Food Justice Foundation”
- Sushoban Avasthi [PhD candidate – Electrical Engineering] “Solar Cells
- Sunny Khemlani [PhD candidate – Psychology] “How We Reason: Systemic Illusions when Drawing Inferences”
- Mike North [PhD candidate – Psychology] “Ageism (Age Based Prejudice) from an Intergenerational Perspective”
- Ankit Panda – [2012 undergrad - WWS] “Undergraduate Life”
PA3 also expresses its gratitude to the Graduate School for its support and to the Nassau Club for its professionalism and graceful hosting of our events.