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Situational Awareness applies to all situations: being aware of where you are and to what is happening around you; being alert to potential threats to your health and safety and being cognizant of emergency exits and other paths to safety. You will learn: How the Fight-or-Flight response affects your safety How situational awareness can keep you safe. “What are the odds?”-being informed to make good decisions for your personal safety. Techniques to develop awareness. Personal safety resources Run. Hide. Fight. – a strategy for your personal safety in emergency situations

Join us to explore the incredible systems that connect us to the world around us! How do our brains and bodies interact with nature and the environment? What role does science play in understanding the urban ecosystems we live in? Discover these answers and more at this exciting event! We invite families and community groups to learn how the human body and brain work in harmony with the environment through hands-on activities and unique scientific resources. This month’s theme is "Science and the City," and we’re celebrating Earth Day with a fun and educational exploration of how science helps us thrive in our cities and beyond! Saturday Science is generously supported by funds from Apple Bank and the NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI). This event is free and open to the public. Register now to guarantee entrance. Spanish translators available upon request. Please let us know your preferred language in the registration form. Hay traductores de español disponibles. Indica su idioma preferido en el formulario de inscripción. We recommend that all visitors (except children 5 years of age and under), including those who enter any campus facility for any period of time, should be vaccinated and have proof of a primary vaccination series. Tickets are limited, so please only register if you plan on attending! If you register but cannot attend, we ask that you release your tickets in a timely fashion so another young scientist has the opportunity to join us. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Content is geared toward elementary and middle school students, but learners of all ages are welcome. Guests can arrive at any time between 1 and 4 pm. Photography: On occasion, we photograph or video Saturday Science for promotional and archival purposes. When registering for the event at Jerome L. Greene Science Center, you give Columbia University in the City of New York the right to use you and your child's image for said purposes. We will never use your names, age or other identifying factors. Questions? Email us at programs@zi.columbia.edu Saturday Science complements other public programs produced by Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. For more information on all of our programs, click here. Saturday Science is brought to you by the Zuckerman Institute, BioBus, and Columbia University Neuroscience Outreach, with participation of Para KIDS

Abstract This discussion illustrates how Latine immigrants have managed their racialized status as hyper-exploitable and patronized subjects in the rural sphere since the onset of COVID-19. The analysis draws on community-engaged ethnographic methods comparing West Central Missouri and Cache Valley Utah—each region constituting its state’s agro-industrial corridor. Both are maturing immigrant destinations where Latines’ 1990s settlement for work in meatpacking disrupted rural American White homogeneity. Findings animate how Latines’ COVID-19 experiences on the meatpacking shopfloor have corresponded with distinctive strategies asserting dignity, according to each context’s racial-ideological structure. The talk considers policy implications for Latine residents’ social, familial, and occupational well-being in two ruralities highly dependent on their labor in such hyper-exploitative industry.  Aaron Arredondo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. His research intersects critical immigration theory with sociology’s newly defined area on the racialization of space. Aaron has named this perspective the spatialization of critical immigration studies (SCIMS). His work has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Inquiry, among other leading social science journals. Aaron’s book monograph draws on community-engaged ethnographic methods examining Latine immigrants’ experiences of racialized space, labor, and (non-)belonging across diversifying American ruralities.    

Hanina Hibshoosh, MD Faculty Director of MPSR Dept. of Pathology & Cell Biology Title: Overview of of Molecular Pathology Shared Resource (MPSR) Description: The Molecular Pathology Shared Resource (MPSR) of The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) of Columbia University (MPSR) facilitates tissue-based research by the acquisition, processing, and characterization of tissues, providing related data, materials, and diverse expertise that enables discovery, characterization, and validation via three integrated services: (1) Routine tissue banking, patient/project/trial specific banking, and Next Generation Banking (characterizing captured frozen tissue) and FFPE procurement; (2) Processing: End to end histology services, TMA construction, immunohistochemistry/IF service, DNA/RNA extraction, slide image digitization service; (3) Characterization: H&E and IHC/IF slide review, image analysis, RNA/DNA quantification and quality assessment. The former is directed by Dr Hanina Hibshoosh. By the integration of the Human Immune Monitoring Core, directed by Dr Benjamin Izar, to the MPSR this past year we dramatically  expanded our characterization capabilities with state of the art genomics and multiplex tissue imaging via:single cell RNA sequencing with 10XGenomics (10Xchromium controller and X) platform, Spatial transcriptomic sequencing with 10X Visium (including Visium HD), Spatial Molecular Imaging Nanostring CosMX platform, Rapid high parametric RNA analysis with Nanostring nCounter system, and multiplex immune fluorescence for tissue analysis with Akoya PhenoImager. We currently service more than 379 unique investigators annually and fulfill more than 440K granular service requests, 4500 bundled service requests and support >157 IRBs at Columbia University. Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD Faculty Director of HIMC Dept. of Med Hematology and Oncology Title: Overview of Human Immune Monitoring Core (HIMC) Description: Benjamin Izar, MD, Faculty Director of Human Immune Monitoring Core (HIMC) will share an overview of HIMC. The Human Immune Monitoring Core (HIMC) offers high-quality, cost-effective services for in-depth, multi-omics immune profiling and monitoring at single-cell resolution, powered by state-of-the-art technologies and a skilled team of physicians, scientists, and technicians. Driven by innovation and project-focused, HIMC utilizes the latest advancements in immunology to develop robust assays and optimized methods. HIMC provides comprehensive support from experimental design and sample processing to data acquisition, analysis, and management. Zoom Meeting https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/97847371419?pwd=hNTcbh48XWXbHY2BMFflr6wLYQonOo.1  Meeting ID: 978 4737 1419 Passcode: seminar