Month: March 2015

Follow-up from the California #NSBE41 GEM GRADLab: Applying to Graduate School, Letters, & the “sexyhotdude@___.com” reminder about emails

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It was a pleasure to talk with students at the National GEM Consortium’s GRAD Lab as part of the Graduate School Conference for the 41st Annual Convention for the National Society of Black Engineers. My talk on “Applying to Graduate School” is one of the four modules for the GEM GRAD Lab’s […]

“The Jessica Effect: Applying Cultural Knowledge and Competency to Mentoring Approaches for Minority Students” @FIU March 4, 2015

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Abstract: “The Jessica Effect” is a conceptual method of student engagement that is being used to mentor underrepresented graduate students at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland), and within the University System of Maryland as part of the National Science Foundation’s project, […]