I posted the following to my social media pages last night: Thank you ABET for the 2016 Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity. Thank you to all of the staff, students, faculty, and administrators at UMBC, University System of Maryland, and all of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP. Thank you […]
It was a pleasure to be with participants from PROMISE at the White House. This was Day 2 at the White House. The event was The White House Conference on Inclusive STEM Education for Youth of Color. One of my grad student fellows, Adegboyega Akinsiku, was a speaker […]
As I share my article in Computing Research News, Expanding the Pipeline: PROMISE Brings a New Phase of #ThinkBigDiversity to Maryland Grad Students, I also celebrate our PROMISE alums and mentees. Representing mentees in this photo are two of our PROMISE alums, Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson (now at the National […]
There it was, another sign that I hadn’t gotten over it. Last week, a colleague sent me an article via Facebook titled, CNN Sexual harassment in STEM: ‘It’s tragic for society’, and I could barely respond. He asked if I had seen the article, and my response was short: I’m just reading […]