By Xinyi Miao

Join us for December’s Research Café, where we’ll explore how creative and scientific innovation intersect from graffiti and street art in the algorithmic economy to machine learning models that help us better understand brain white matter and traumatic injury. This virtual session will feature presentations by Ph.D.

We’re excited to invite you to this month’s Research Café featuring two graduate researchers whose work spans environmental stewardship and cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Joshua Kover will share his innovative approach to urban forestry management, redefining how communities can help shape sustainable, resilient urban ecosystems.

By Juliana Corrêa-Velloso

By Sumiyya Raheem

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 Aaron Shatkin Scholarship Award winners who were honored at the Aaron Shatkin Memorial Lecture on Tuesday October 28. The award recognizes outstanding current graduate students who have excelled in their research and coursework with a plaque and $3000.

Payton Harmon’s research brings a remarkable combination of compassion, curiosity, and scientific rigor to one of the most urgent global health challenges facing children today. As a Ph.D. candidate in Nutritional Sciences at SGS, she is working to improve the effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy, a lifesaving treatment for pediatric diarrhea that has saved millions of lives but still leaves too many children vulnerable. Her work in Dr.