Participants will discuss the opportunities available to first-generation students interested in STEM from their differentiating hometowns and the process in which to receive quality education revolving around STEM. What are some of the challenges first generations faced who are interested in STEM? What is holding the first gen back? What does it mean to be a minority at an elite school?
Location: UC 204
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ADVANCE and the Office of Research invite you to a special Webinar: Designing Successful Broadening Participation Programs Through Evidence-Based Approaches Tuesday, March 26th, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET. If you are interested in research and research practices around broadening participation in research, join us in Alumni Memorial Hall Conference Room 308 (over the President/Provost Suite).
Faculty Panel on benefits, best practices and how-tos of increasing accessibility of your research.
This year at the 2019 CITL Symposium on Teaching and Learning, Dr. Kendall Moore
On April 3-4, 2019 ADVANCE and Lehigh's HHMI program are jointly sponsoring Dr. Teniel Ramikie to visit Lehigh University. Dr. Ramikie is a research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Kerry Ressler (at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) and her research interests include investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms driving the pathophysiology of psychiatric disease states.
Lehigh ADVANCE Center for Women STEM Faculty and the Office of Multicultural Affairs will host a conversation about the experiences and research about women of color in academic STEM spaces nationally and at Lehigh. The overarching goal is to highlight the myriad experiences, successes and challenges, women in STEM fields have had and what opportunities exist to continue to support colleagues in different academic (student and professional) roles.
The lunch-time program for Faculty, Staff and Students will be from 12-1:30 on March 7 in UC308 and includes lunch.
At this January 24, 2019 lunch session, STEM women will discuss what we learned about 'advice for chairs' from the recent ADVANCE Survey and what else they hope for chairs to know about how faculty experience their departments. Please use this link to RSVP between now and January 18, https://doodle.com/poll/bqfy4ke66btssy5z.
ADVANCE is not about "fixing the women" but about transforming the entirety of the institution so that both women and men faculty can thrive.
2017-2018 BROCHURE: ADVANCE AT A GLANCE
