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ARCS Celebrates Annual Event for Convergent Research
快活林性息鈥檚 Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS) 2023 Lift Off Event took place April 7th. More than 300 students, faculty, and staff came together to share 35 multidisciplinary research projects and听network with industry stakeholders including NASA/JPL, Aerospace Corp, Medtronic, and Ecotelesis. VIP attendees included 快活林性息 Provost Dr. Meera Komarraju and Keynote speaker and Aerospace Corp Vice President Dr. Debra L. Emmons. Provost Komarraju remarked that,听鈥渃ollege education does not just benefit the student, it also benefits the communities the students come from. I see 快活林性息 doing that.鈥�
Among the research projects, ARCS Associate Director Joe Bautista and team members Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, JPL, and students Roslene Villalon, Erica Bettencourt, Andila Wijekulasuriya and Youjin Shin presented on 鈥淐oStar/Nebula Science Communication.鈥� This project鈥檚 goal is to explore AI concepts in the NeBula system and to address the uncertainty of elemental differences in missions. Concerning research for the upcoming year, ARCS Director Dr. Nhut Ho remarked that, 鈥渙ur prospects for next year are to form more industry leader partnerships and continue to provide 快活林性息 ARCS fellows with internship opportunities at JPL.鈥澨�
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To learn more about becoming an ARCS fellow and the work our faculty and students are doing with industry leaders in aerospace and medicine, please contact ARCS at arcs@csun.edu听or (818) 677-5780.
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Meet the Dean:听Jeffrey Tad贸r Reeder, Ph.D.听, College of Humanities
What brought you to 快活林性息 and how long have you been Dean?
I came to 快活林性息 last August from Spain, where I was the CSU鈥檚 Resident Director for study abroad. In Spain I got to work with quite a few 快活林性息 students who genuinely seemed to understand and appreciate that 快活林性息 is a special place with many opportunities for rich educational and cultural experiences. Due to a very fortuitous alignment, the Dean of Humanities position that I鈥檓 in now came open right at the same time that my Resident Director term in Spain was coming to an end, so here I am, grateful and happy!
What do you like most about your position?
I learn so much, every single day! I honestly do learn dozens of things every day, and sometimes I almost feel like I should be paying tuition or something because my work is right in the center of such an amazing learning environment. I get to be surrounded by brilliant, purposeful, and dedicated people who are so knowledgeable and passionate about what they do because we share the understanding that our work has a very real and very meaningful positive impact on peoples鈥� lives and on society.
What would people be surprised to learn about you?
Oh, I don鈥檛 know鈥� but people do always seem to have a reaction when they learn that my K-12 education was a crazy jumble of 14 different schools: public, religious private, secular private, and homeschool, in four different countries and in four US states. I still remember every single one, whether it was the two-room schoolhouse surrounded by farmland or the seven-story concrete building surrounded by even taller buildings. Some of those schools were truly wonderful in so many ways, others were just as truly horrible and awful. Either way, all of them played a role in who I am today. Oh yeah, another surprising thing people learn about me is that one summer I rode a bicycle from Mexico to Canada - that鈥檚 even kind of surprising to me when I think about it.
Is there anything else you would like to share?听
Yes, I鈥檇 like to share an invitation: I鈥檇 like to invite you to please invite me for a mid-day walk around campus, or perhaps for coffee! I love meeting people, hearing your stories and listening to your perspectives!