Schedule is tentative and subject to change. Keynote speakers are confirmed.
July 9, 2024 | Downes Ballroom and Main Building
Time TBD | Afternoon registration, coffee & refreshments, networking, self-guided campus tours, etc.
5–6 pm | Opening Keynote in Downes Ballroom: Dietram A. Scheufele with a welcome and introduction by Jeff Rhoads, Vice President for Research at the University of Notre Dame
Dietram A. Scheufele is the Taylor-Bascom Chair and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an Investigator in the Morgridge Institute for Research, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center. His work examines the social effects of emerging science and technology.
Scheufele is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Communication Association. He currently co-chairs the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication.
7–8:30 pm | Reception in Main Building Rotunda
July 10, 2024 | Downes Ballroom
8:30–10 am | Keynote: Amy Aines, with welcome and introduction by Santiago Schnell, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame
Amy Aines builds career success skills. She is a communication strategist and educator on a mission to help scholars speak and listen so they can make science more accessible. Co-author of Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers, Amy honed her expertise directing corporate, employee, and public policy communication for a $10B telecommunications company and its wireless spin-off. This was the beginning of a career in which she has helped scientists and engineers explain complex concepts, collaborate productively, and introduce innovations for a safer and healthier world. As CEO of her boutique communication consulting firm, Amy has worked with more than 50 technology, healthcare, and biotech companies and trained cohorts at leading universities and national laboratories. Amy provides insights into effective communication, relationship-building, and influence approaches.
10:15–11:15 am | Session 1 TBA
11:30 am–12:30 pm | Panel discussion led by Nitesh Chawla, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.
12:30–1:45 pm | Buffet lunch and networking
1:45–2:45 pm | Session 3 TBA
3–4 pm | Session 4 TBA
4:15–6 pm | Happy Hour Reception
Dinner on your own
July 11, 2024 | Downes Ballroom
8–9 am | Coffee, light breakfast, networking
9–10 am | Session 1 TBA
10:15–11:15 am | Session 2 TBA
11:30 am–12:30 pm | Closing Keynote: Fanuel Muindi, with welcome and introduction by Pedro Ribiero, Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications at the University of Notre Dame
Fanuel Muindi is the founder and Chief Resident of the Sai Resident Collective. As a civic science scholar-journalist, he leads the Civic Science Media Laboratory within the collective. A neuroscientist by training, Fanuel earned his PhD in Organismal Biology from Stanford University in 2013 and completed his postdoctoral training at MIT in 2015. He served as the inaugural Lasker Foundation & Research!America Fellow for Civic Science, Professor of the Practice in Civic Science at Northeastern University, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, and as a Senior Consultant for the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. A Tanzanian native, Fanuel is also an architectural street photographer and has exhibited his work at several galleries in the Boston area.