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2025 Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with the Asian/Asian-American Faculty & Staff Association at UConn
Oct
4

2025 Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with the Asian/Asian-American Faculty & Staff Association at UConn

Advancing Leadership and Scholarship: Academic Freedom and Collaboration in Action

2025 Annual Meeting and Joint Conference with the Asian/Asian-American Faculty & Staff Association at UConn

October 4th, 2025

The Grossman Auditorium, 400 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06032

Open to professors, researchers, students, and industry professionals

Registration Form

https://forms.gle/pHGqV9Mn4fQrmJRv6 

08:30 – 09:00      Check-in and member enrollment

 

Greetings

09:00 – 09:10      Welcome by Xi Chen, CAPA President and

Cuihong Li, President of UConn's Asian/Asian-American Faculty & Staff

Opening Remark

09:15 – 09:30      Dr. Anne D'Alleva, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Connecticut / President of Binghamton University

Keynote

09:30 – 10:15     Haifan Lin, Eugen Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine

Director of Yale Stem Cell Center

President, Federation of Asian Professor Associations

10:15 – 10:30      Coffee/Tea Break/group photo

Panel: Leadership and Career Advancement in Academia

10:30 – 11:45  

Moderator: Xiaomei Cong, Associate Dean of Research, Yale Nursing School

Bruce Liang, Dean, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Dequan Xiao, Chair, Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department, University of New Haven

Zhan Li, Dean, Fairfield University, Dolan School of Business  

11:45 – 12:30      William Tong, J.D., the CT Attorney General

12:00 – 1:30       Lunch and Social, Product introduction by sponsor companies.

Keynote

1:30 – 2:00      Ted Yang, Regent, CT State Colleges and Universities.  

 

Panel: Strategies for Funding Applications

 2:00 – 3:20

Moderator: Jing Yan, Department of Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University

2:00 – 2:15 

“Diversifying grant portfolio in a challenging funding landscape”

Qin Yan, Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine

2:15 – 2:30 

“Current funding situation and climate for public health researcher and academia”

Xi Chen, Public Health and Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University

2:30 – 2:45      

"How to write a winnable research grant, a perspective for NIH grant review process "

Thanh D. Nguyen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UConn

2:45 - 3:00

“Maximizing Funding Opportunities for Non-R1 Institutions”

Shue Wang, Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department, University of New Haven

3:00 – 3:20       Panel discussion

3:15 – 3:30         Coffee/Tea Break

 

Panel: Research to Reality: Pathways to Entrepreneurship

3:30 – 4:30        

Moderator: Penghua Wang, Associate Professor of the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health

Lily Li, Ph.D., President of The Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA) in Connecticut

“University Technology Entrepreneurship: A Fresh Perspective”

Mingyu Qiao, Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Nutritional Sciences, UConn College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources

Panel Discussion

Yvonne Zhao, Regional Innovation Officer, CT Department of Economic Community Development.

Amit Kumar, Ph.D, Senior Director of Licensing, UConn. 

Min Yi, President, Boston Capital Investment Club

Mingyu Qiao, Assistant Professor of Innovation and

Entrepreneurship, Department of Nutritional Sciences, UConn College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources.

4:30 – 4:45         Closing remark, Yongli Zhang, Department of Cell Biology, Yale, President, Asian Faculty Association at Yale (AFAY), CAPA-CT VP.

 

4:45 – 5:15         CAPA-CT Board Business Meeting

Conference organization committee: Xi Chen, Yongli Zhang, Xinyi Lu, Miaowei Weng, Yanhua Yang, Qian Wu, Jing Yan, Ting Zhou, Zuohong Pan, Chong Qiu, Wang Penghua, Grace Chun Guo. Cuihong Li

The CAPA-CT Board wants to express deep gratitude for Dr. Riqiang Yan, (Chair of Neuroscience Department) and Bruce Liang (Dean of School of Medicine) at UConn Health  and all others who have made contributions and assistance to the conference.

The Conference is sponsored in part by AMPSEQ and Singleron Biotechnologies 

 
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Moving Up the Ladder Decoding the Faculty Promotion Process
Dec
17

Moving Up the Ladder Decoding the Faculty Promotion Process

Moving up the ladder - Decoding the Faculty Promotion Process


Time: 12-17-2024, 7- 8 pm

Host: Jing Yan, Yale University

Submit questions for the panel: https://forms.gle/PLzsLZB2aQqy5p8HA

Panelists

  • Jun Liu, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine

  • Qian Wu, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UConn Health

  • Grace Guo, Professor of Management, Sacred Heart University

  • Miaowei Weng, Professor of Spanish, Southern Connecticut State University

  • Xiusheng Yang, Professor of Natural Resources & the Environment, UConn

Zoom Link:  https://yale.zoom.us/j/97511178991?pwd=Q6LeahR6D9Psibc17Cs75smWa3zzZp.1

Meeting ID: 975 1117 8991

Password: 467567


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Embracing Challenges and Opportunities: Perspective of Asian American Scholars 2024 annual meeting and joint conference with Asian Faculty Association at Yale 美国康州华人教授协会 2024 年年会
May
4
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Embracing Challenges and Opportunities: Perspective of Asian American Scholars 2024 annual meeting and joint conference with Asian Faculty Association at Yale 美国康州华人教授协会 2024 年年会

The symposium is open to the public.

Location: Marsh Lecture Hall of Yale Science Building, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511

J.W. Gibbs Lab, 260 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511

Registration*: 2024 CAPA-CT Annual Conference (google.com)

Conference Announcement: https://capainct.org/

Program

08:30 – 09:00 Check-in and member enrollment

1. Greetings and Overview

2. Combating Racial Bias and Profiling

Moderator: Taisu Zhang, PhD, J.D., Professor of Law, Yale

  • 09:40 – 10:15 Gang Chen, PhD, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor, Director of Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories, MIT, (Keynote, 35 minutes) 

“We are all Gang Chen”


  • 10:15 – 10:30  	Coffee/Tea Break


    Moderator: Simon Cheng, PhD, Professor of Sociology, UConn

  • 10:30 – 10:55 Bruce Liang, MD, Dean of UConn School of Medicine, Ray Neag Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University of Connecticut.

Moving through the Ranks and the Ladder


  • 10:55 – 11:20 Emma Zang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Biostatistics, and Global Affairs, Yale

Breaking Barriers: Challenges Faced by Asian Female Faculty in the US


  • 11:20 – 11:45 Haiyan Tang, PhD, J.D., Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Shanghai Office

United Voices: Legal Advocacy and Solidarity Among Asian Americans Against Discrimination

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch and Social 

  • 1:00 – 1:30  CAPA-CT Ten-Year Service Awards*

3. Leading the Breakthroughs: Highlights in AI and Biomedicine

Moderator: Wei Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut

  • 1:30 – 1:50 Hua Xu, PhD, Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale

Large Language Models for Biomedical Applications


  • 1:50 – 2:10 Alex Wong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Yale

Perception from Vision and More


  • 2:10 – 2:30 Fei Miao, PhD, Pratt & Whitney Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Connecticut

Learning and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Resiliency of Embodied AI


2:30 – 2:45 Coffee/Tea Break


Moderator: Min Wu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine

  • 2:45 – 3:05 Yulan Xiong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut

Molecular underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease: a new path to therapies

  • 3:05 – 3:25 Rong Fan, PhD, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Yale

Spatial Omics: past, present, and future

  • 3:25 – 4:00 Haifan Lin, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Genetics, of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, and of Dermatology; Director of Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale, (Keynote, 35 minutes)

    Regenerative Medicine: Progress and Prospects

4:00 – 4:25 Moderator: Jing Yan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale

William Tong, J.D., The Attorney General of Connecticut

4:25 - 4:45 CAPA-CT Business Meeting

4:45 - 5:00 Adjourn by President or Vice President of CAPA-CT

* CAPA-CT Service Awards recognizes exemplary contributions of its members and supporters to the organization. 

5:30-8:00 Buffet dinner for invited speakers, moderators, and guests

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The CAPA-CT Board wants to express deep gratitude for those who have made contributions and assistance to the conference. Donations to CAPA-CT are warmly welcomed.


4. Map, Parking, and Entrances

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