August 24 Lunch & Learn: Light and Sound

The fun continues with our next Lunch & Learn event, featuring talks by graduate students in Biomolecular Science & Engineering and Music. Lunch & Learn events are co-sponsored by the Graduate Division and the Graduate Student Association, and you'll enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus.

Lunch & Learn
This Edition: Light and Sound

Wednesday, ​August 24
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Elings 1605
​Pizza and salad lunch will be provided
*To help us estimate food, ​please RSVP*
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"Learning About Our Senses Using the Fruit Fly"

Nicole Leung
Graduate Student in Biomolecular Science & Engineering

In this talk, Nicole will discuss the techniques used in her lab to study vision, taste, smell, temperature sensation, circadian rhythm, and proprioception, as well as her work on opsins, which are light-sensitive proteins found in the eye. She will also address some recent discoveries about the roles of opsins outside of the eye and how this finding challenges our basic understanding of the senses.
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"Electronic Dance Music: The Early Days"

Emma Levine
Graduate Student in Music

Over the past two decades, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has taken the world by storm. With thousands of EDM festivals worldwide, it has quickly become one of the most popular music genres. EDM culture, now mocked in SNL skits and criticized as vapid and commercial, emerged from an underground movement that embraced diversity, whose music reflected a variety of different styles and traditions. Emma will discuss some of EDM's earliest influences and trace its American roots back to the basements and warehouses of New York, Chicago, and Detroit.

This event will be moderated by​ ​Don Lubach, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Graduate Student Initiatives.

Interested in being a presenter at an upcoming Lunch & Learn? Click here to find out more! If you have any questions about this event or Lunch & Learn in general, please email Shawn Warner-Garcia.