The next Lightning Lounge will be held Oct. 15. The speakers are: Yuting Yang, an assistant professor of economics whose talk is The Economics of Energy Transition; Allison Freedman, an associate professor of law whose talk is Eviction Sealing: A Lifeline in the Fight for Housing Justice; Tomasz Falkowski, an assistant professor in the Honors College whose talk is Growing Food and Forests: Maintaining Milpa for Food Sovereignty and Ecological Restoration; and Minghui Chen, an associate professor of nuclear engineering whose talk is The Harmony of Atomics and AI.

Please note that we have a new location and time for the Lightning Lounges this semester. They will still be on Wednesdays, but will take place from 3:30 - 4:30 in the Honors College Forum. 

The final Lightning Lounge of the semester will be Nov. 19. Stay tuned for more information on presenters.

If you haven’t attended before, please join! Faculty colleagues give short talks about their research and scholarship, and time is available for questions during and after the event. No registration required. Come meet new people, network and learn! The Lightning Lounge is hosted by ADVANCE at UNM, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Office of the Vice President for Research.