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Patrick Nelson
Data, Disease, and Opportunity

Patrick Nelson
Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Chair of Math and Computer Science

A story of data, disease, and opportunity to work in HIV labs – Curious: Can math modeling cure HIV, diabetes, or save a marriage?
Mathematical modeling has had a profound impact on the study of diseases for over 100 years. With recent advances in health care, AI, and data collection, we were getting comfortable with our understanding of disease dynamics and then COVID reset our expectations. I’ll discuss how this impacted my recent work but also my journey from graduate school to today and how working in an HIV lab and collaborating with a medical professional on Diabetes led me to seeing things differently. I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to mentor over 20 students from undergraduate to Ph.D. where many have gone on to successful, interdisciplinary, careers in health care, medicine, and academics. Their success besides just being plain smart can be attributed to Experimental Curiosity; thinking outside the box, not being afraid to take chances, and truly being curious about Science.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.