Lecture: 12-1:00pm
Reception: 1:00-2:00pm
Location: Joyce Cummings Center, Room 280
Zoom: Registrants will receive an email with the Zoom link before the event
Dr. Ebony McGee is a Professor of Education, Diversity and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. In her 12pm lecture, she will discuss her book, Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation, in which she conducted 319 interviews with high-achieving, underrepresented undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty of color in STEM fields. She found that key motivators for their persistence in these fields were catalyzing change, improving communities, and being the Black/Latinx/Indigenous STEM professors that many of these students never had.
Biomedical Engineering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Chemical and Biological Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Computer Science Electrical and Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Engineering Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (Gordon Institute)