Friday, May 31, 2019 10:30 - 11:45
Hum 1030A
Description: A review of our nation’s history, and where we are today, could provide us with a road map for creating more effective policy and practice in addressing the challenge of coping with societal changes via collaborative actions across the public and private sectors. Stan Litow, a leader in government, business and civil society for decades, and currently a Professor at Duke and Columbia and the author of the Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward, will outline the examples of the kind of innovative public private partnerships that have successfully addressed America’s Challenges and detail some of the ways to make them the model for future action.
Bio: Stanley S. Litow is a Professor at both Columbia and Duke University. At Duke University, he also serves as Innovator in Residence. Stan is the author of The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward.
He previously served as President of the IBM International Foundation and as Deputy Chancellor of Schools for the City of New York. Before his service at IBM and the NYC public schools, he served as President and Founder of Interface and as Executive Director of the NYC Urban Corps, operated out of the Mayor’s Office.
He has served on a multiple of Presidential and Gubernatorial Commissions and in addition to his service on the SUNY Board of Trustees; he also serves on the board of Roosevelt House and the Citizens Budget Commission.
Stan helped devise the innovative school to college to career program called, PTECH as well as the IBM Corporate Service Corps, often referenced as the corporate version of the Peace Corps.
He has received multiple awards for his community service, from organizations such as the Ann Frank Commission, the Marin Luther King Commission, and the Center for an Urban Future as well as the Corning Award from the New York State Business Council.
Friday, May 31, 2019 10:30 - 11:45
Hum 2047
Description: In this talk, Dr. Anurag Purwar will present how he has serendipitously leveraged his research in mechanisms and robotics to 1) effect pedagogical outcomes for enhancing students’ learning and 2) develop technology for positive social and economic impacts. He will demonstrate how he discovered a connection between the major troikas of a research and teaching enterprise, viz., research, teaching, and innovation and leveraged it. He will present a broad overview of his research without any boring mathematics, but focus more on the technologies and tools that he has developed over years, which have helped students with their learning and led them to design and invent machines for social good.
Bio: Dr. Anurag Purwar is an award-winning teacher, researcher, TEDx speaker, and inventor of several technologies, some of which are available as products in the market. He has received several best paper and outstanding research awards, excellence in teaching awards, and the top 100 design awards for his inventions. He received the SUNY FACT2 award, two SUNY Research Foundation Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) awards, A.T. Yang award for Theoretical Kinematics, and Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Purwar has led more than 125 technical projects in mechanisms and robotics, wave-, and wind-energy harvesting, physical therapy and rehabilitation devices, aircraft components, and consumer products design, with a cumulative in-cash funding of $4.4M supported by National Science Foundation, industry, NY-state SPIR, NY-state Center for Biotechnology, Sensor-CAT, SUNY Research Foundation, and SUNY Office of Provost. More than 175 students have been supported on these projects.
Dr. Purwar is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. He is currently an Associate Editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME) Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering and of International Journal of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines and has served as the Conference and Program chair for several ASME international conferences. He is an elected member of the ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Committee and of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) by Stony Brook University Chapter.
Please follow this link for his profile page: https://me.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty/Purwar_Anurag.php
Friday, May 31, 2019 10:30 - 11:45
Hum 1032
This multi-institutional panel shares perspectives from SUNY and CUNY students and faculty about using open educational resources (OER) and how the pedagogical changes that have taken place through their work with OER.
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Panelists:
Mary Rogan, Professor
Economics and Business Department
Lehman College
Elizabeth Small, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Spanish, Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
SUNY Oneonta
Talia Lipton
Rockland Community College
Emral Devany, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Kingsborough Community College
Jessica Kruger
University at Buffalo
