Conferences, Research, and Achievements

Below are news items detailing conferences and other research events where CCT students have presented their work and been recognized for their achievements.

Cynthia Ferman, Katrina Pariera, Margaret Costello, Prof. Dedaic and Carlos Martinez at a Conference in Szczecin, Poland.

• Professor Mirjana Dedaic led a round table discussion with several CCT students at the 7th annual Maryland Graduate Student Forum on “Reflections on Optimism.” The discussion with students Li Nie, Cynthia Ferman, Katrina Pariera, Tatyana Varshavsky, Margaret Costello, andCarlos Martinez was on “Learning to Imagine: National Identity Construction and Bourdieu’s Habitus.”
  
• Professor Dedaic and students Carlos Martinez, Margaret Costello, Katrina Pariera and Cynthia Ferman also presented at a conference in Szczecin, Poland on is “Us and Them - Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes - Perceptions, Challenges, Meanings.” All were members of Professor Dedaic’s National Identity class. Together with students Tatyana Varshavsky, Li Nie and Suzanne Shenk, and alumniIrinia Alaverdyan and Hannanah Mobashir, they are working on an edited volume to which they will contribute the papers they presented at the conference.
  
• CCT students Gillian Brooks, Lauren Alfrey, Francesca Tripodi, Morgan Loosli, Sarah Upton and GU student Christina Coloroso presented their work at the National Press Club on April 6, during a luncheon for the 2008-2009 Gender in the Workplace Research Competition. Gillian Brooks and Lauren Alfrey were runners-up in the competition.
  
• Several CCT students participated in the Science and Technology in Society Conference held in Washington, DC, March 28-29, 2009. Stuart Geiger won the “Best Presentation in Panel” prize for presenting his paper "Working with/in Wikipedia: Infrastructure of Knowing and Knowledge Production."Margarita Rayzberg played a lead role in organizing the conference.Jessica Polk also helped to organize.
  
• Juliette Arnaud's comments were twice highlighted in a Business Week blog. Her comments were part of an assignment for Professor Nelson's “Creating a Culture of Innovation” class.
  
• Last summer CCT student Zach Pentel and Brenda Polmer filmed a mini-documentary in New Orleans about the post-Katrina recovery effort on behalf of Campus Progress . The work was selected by DoGooder TV as a finalist in their 2009 Non-Profit Video Awards. Zach also recently had a blog postpublished by Save The Internet on why young people should care about internet policy.

Lauren Alfrey and Gillian Brooks Present at the Gender in the Workplace Research Competition