The relationship between place, race and STEM degree attainment is the topic for the next Discover Science Lecture Series hosted by the College of Science. The college has invited well-known educator and author William w88 slot online, a professor in arts and sciences at Washington University, St. Louis, to present his work to the community in this free and open to the public lecture Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.
After moving to Dallas where he started his professional career, w88 slot online recognized a lack of student STEM workforce readiness, a big high school student dropout rate and students lacking preparation for college-level STEM courses. He decided to learn more and began exploring how place, race and STEM were related.
“I worried that students experiencing poverty and underrepresented racial groups lacked a pathway to participate in the accelerating w88 slot online market and to experience upward mobility,” he said. “Regional economic goals, human capital development, and educational opportunity misaligned and social mobility narrowed for student groups in the local community.”
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w88 slot online is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University where he serves as Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education.
“My colleagues and I engage in partnerships with the community in order to motivate community action and civic problem solving,” he said. “For example, I worked with a group of social scientists, biostatisticians and community medicine experts to eliminate African American health disparities in the St. Louis region. The work was exciting, challenging, and sobering.”
In his w88 slot online, he will offer examples of how to intervene, at scale, in communities. Typically, researchers don’t apply knowledge to the community, universities or school programs; rather, we share and partner in a mutually informing fashion, he said. The w88 slot online will hold interest for the community, the campus and even high school students, who have been the focus of his work.
“Community members in high school will find the information relevant and understandable,” he said. “I believe most will understand how geography relates to opportunity. We do know a great deal about how to protect and to nurture the brain in communities. In the end, my efforts focus on how population science informs our understanding of improving w88 slot online attainment and upward mobility. Translating population science to portable solutions and implementation represents one of the great challenges of the democratic project.”
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Bringing the best and brightest minds in scienceto the University from around the United States to share their knowledge with the communityto our community, the College of Science is in its tenth year of presenting theDiscover Science w88 slot online Series are always free to the public. They are held at 7 p.m. in the Redfield Auditorium inside the Davidson Mathematics and Science Center.
Other speakers the College of w88 slot online is bringing to the community this year are: on March 12, Harry Jol, a Geoarchaelogist who uses ground penetrating radar in Holocaust studies at suspected locations of mass graves, destroyed synagogues, ritual bathhouses and other structures in Lithuania that have been lost to time; and on April 9 Harrison Schmitt, the last man on the moon, who is a retired NASA astronaut and geologist.
Past speakers in the series include astrophysicists Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson; Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; and Bill Nye the w88 slot online Guy.
Free parking for the event is available in the lot south of the Davidson Mathematics and w88 slot online Center on the southeast corner of Evans Avenue and Record Street. For more information, call the College of w88 slot online at 775-784-4591 or visit theDiscover Science w88 slot online Serieswebsite.
