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Fusion Day

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Fusion Day is a time set aside to celebrate your academic work by providing an opportunity to showcase original research, scholarship, or creative work with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the larger community. This year Fusion Day will be on April 22 – 23.  Classes will be canceled on April 23 so students can participate by both presenting and attending sessions.

Schedule

Speakers

Alumni Speaker: Brandy Harris ’08

Brandy Harris ’08 is the Chief Executive Officer for Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield in Springfield, Missouri. Harris began her professional career in 2008 as a high school teacher at her Alma Mater-Hillcrest High School in Springfield. Harris has been involved in the Boys & Girls Clubs movement since 2011. She started in Lawrence, Kansas, serving in a number of roles, both on the front-line and leadership level. Then, she moved back to Springfield and assumed a role as Program Director in 2013 at the Henderson Unit. She was then chosen as the Unit Director of the new Sertoma Unit. In 2017, while still running the Sertoma Unit, she was promoted to the Director of Programs for the organization after pitching the idea to Club leadership. She received her B.A. in Speech Communication from Drury University in 2008, and her Masters in Early Childhood Education and Family Development from Missouri State University in 2015.

Keynote Speaker: John Quiñones

Combining a moving life story, an exceptional career, incomparable insights and a powerful presence, John Quiñones has emerged as one of the most popular inspirational speakers in the world today. His moving presentations focus on his odds-defying journey, celebrate the life-changing power of education, champion the Latino American Dream and provide thought-provoking insights into human nature and ethical behavior.

A lifetime of “never take no for an answer” took Quiñones from migrant farm work and poverty to more than 30 years at ABC News, the anchor desk at 20/20 and Primetime and seven national Emmy awards for his reporting over the years. Along the way, he broke through barriers, won the highest accolades and became a role model for many.

As host and creator of What Would You Do?, the highly-rated, hidden camera ethical dilemma news magazine now on its 17th season, Quiñones has literally become “the face of doing the right thing” to millions of fans.

Certificate Panels

Room 205

9:00 – 9:20 – Get Out and Plug In: Intercultural Connections

9:25 – 9:45 – Holistic Health and Wellbeing

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Get Out and Plug In: Intercultural Connections

10:20 – 10:40 – Holistic Health and Wellbeing

Room 210

9:00 – 9:20 – Data Analytics: Big Problems, Big Data Solutions

9:25 – 9:45 – Professional and Visual Communication

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Data Analytics: Big Problems, Big Data Solutions

10:20 – 10:40 – Professional and Visual Communication

Room 300

9:00 – 9:20 – Different in the New Normal: Celebrating Neurodiversity

9:25 – 9:45 – Sports Leadership: Going Beyond the Game

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Different in the New Normal: Celebrating Neurodiversity

10:20 – 10:40 – Sports Leadership: Going Beyond the Game

Room 240

9:00 – 9:20 – Arts Administration

9:25 – 9:45 – Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Facilitating Learning in a Professional Setting

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

10:20 – 10:40 – Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Facilitating Learning in a Professional Setting

Room 200

9:00 – 9:20 – Graphic Storytelling

9:25 – 9:45 – Life in Close Up: Film, History, and Society

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Graphic Storytelling

10:20 – 10:40 – Life in Close Up: Film, History, and Society

Room 220

9:00 – 9:20 – Designing Solutions for Environmental Problems

9:25 – 9:45 – The Activists Tool Kit: Transforming Society through Civic Engagement

9:45 – 9:55 – Break

9:55 – 10:15 – Designing Solutions for Environmental Problems

10:20 – 10:40 – The Activists Tool Kit: Transforming Society through Civic Engagement

Room 245

9:00-9:20 – Ethical Leadership

9:25-9:45 – Justice Denied: Wrongful Convictions

9:45-9:55 – Break

9:55-10:15 – Ethical Leadership

10:20-10:40 – Justice Denied: Wrongful Convictions

Fuse Talks Livestream

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2024 Photo Gallery