IGNITE

Individual Growth & New Ideas Through EPSCoR/INBRE

January 8, 2025
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Wood Center Ballroom

IGNITE: Individual Growth & New Ideas Through EPSCoR/INBRE is an annual professional development workshop put on in collaboration with Alaska EPSCoR and Alaska INBRE that brings together University of Alaska researchers, faculty, staff, and students for inspiring and instructive presentations, keynote speakers, and discussion sessions.

Plenary Speakers

Landscape of Tribal Communities: Context for Working in Rural Alaska

Adelheid Herrmann
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

Science Communication

Kristin Timm
Social science researcher on communication, public engagement, and co-production processes with the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center

Implicit Bias Training

Kaydee Van Flein
Executive director of the UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability

Kristin Timm

Kaydee Van Flein

Faculty, Staff, and Student Track Sessions:

Mentoring
with UAF Provost Anupma Prakash
Tips for research poster presentations
with Kristen Gorman, research professor at the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
What is intellectual property and how to protect it
with David Park, Interim Director of the UAF Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization
Traditional Athabascan beading
with Deanna Fitzgerald of the UAF Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development