Career Development
Enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus at this month's Lunch & Learn!
Kick off your quarter with the next installment of Lunch & Learn, co-sponsored by the Graduate Division and the Graduate Students Association. You'll enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.
Lunch & Learn
This Edition: âParasites and Postindustrial Art
Friday, âApril 1
Noon-1:30 p.m.
âElings 1605
Pizza and salad lunch will be provided
*As space is limited, âplease RSVP*
"Raccoons, Roundworms, and You!"
Sara Weinstein
Graduate Student in Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
From mites on a mouse to worms in a raccoon, nearly every wild animal is home to a hidden community of parasites. Although these creatures are a natural part of healthy ecosystems, parasite spillover from wildlife to humans has sparked some of mankind's most devastating disease epidemics. Disease spillover is not just an exotic phenomenon - in Santa Barbara, 80% of raccoons harbor a 15cm-long parasite capable of causing severe disease in humans and other wildlife. Sara studies the transmission and ecology of this parasite, called Raccoon Roundworm, and will discuss her research exploring how anthropogenic changes alter wildlife populations, their parasites, and our own disease risk.
"'Para Las Ni~os del Mundo': Envisioning and Enacting Social Space in Chicana/o and Latina/o Los Angeles"
Jonathan D. Gomez
Graduate Student in Sociology
Jonathan's dissertation project investigates how racially aggrieved groups cognitively map and physically traverse the postindustrial city. This presentation considers the collective and inter-generational social processes of art-making in the Chicana/o mural movement at Estrada Courts in Boyle Heights as a vehicle to envision and enact empowering social space, social identities, and community-based democratic deliberation in Los Angeles, and beyond.
This event will be moderated by Don Lubach, Associate Dean of Students, Graduate Student Initiatives.
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