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Women@NCSA: "2021 SPIN & REU Panel Discussion"

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Lecture
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Women@NCSA
Date
Jul 7, 2021   2:00 pm  
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Women@NCSA partners with NCSA's SPIN and REU programs to host a virtual 2021 SPIN and REU expert panel discussion. Our featured panelists will share their experiences and advice on how to prepare for the next step in your life. Whether it's continuing education or joining the workforce or both, we invite you to join us on Wednesday, July 7 from 2:00–3:00 p.m. via Zoom to learn more. Email wncsa@illinois.edu to get the Zoom link.

Hear from our expert panel to gain their perspectives on diversity in STEM, building a career in tech, things to do in college that will help with your career, challenges and obstacles, including working from home and the changing job market to name a few.

Featured Panelists

Diana Gonzalez, Associate Director for Graduate Student Success
Diana joined The Grainger College of Engineering as an Associate Director for Graduate Student Success in March 2020. Diana came most recently from Gies College of Business where she worked with graduate programs for seven years. Diana's professional focus is on student satisfaction, professional development, academic enrichment, and program effectiveness. At Grainger Engineering she oversees the Mavis Future Faculty Fellows Academy, Grainger Engineering Graduate Fellowship Programs, the Grainger Engineering Five-Year Ph.D. Funding Guarantee, Academic Plans and Student Progress, Student Concerns and GEO Inquiries, and Departmental Graduate Programs Staff Training and Support.

Ruby Mendenhall, UIUC Associate Professor
Ruby is an Associate Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women's Studies and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives; the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research; Epstein Health Law and Policy Program; Family Law and Policy Program and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Mendenhall is the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Mendenhall's research examines how living in racially segregated neighborhoods with high levels of violence affects Black mothers' mental and physical health using surveys, interviews, crime statistics, police records, data from 911 calls, art, wearable sensors and genomic analysis. She examines the role of the Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) in social mobility and health outcomes and the medicalization of poverty. She is interested in how families use their EITC to secure affordable and safe housing. She studies the effects of racial microaggressions on students of color health and their sense of belonging on predominantly white campuses. She also employs big data to recover Black women's lost history using topic modeling and data visualization to examine over 800,000 documents from 1740 to 2014. She is currently directing the STEM Illinois Nobel Project, funded by NSF, which provides unprecedented access to computer science and other STEM fields. The Nobel project is also a pathway program to medicine and will certify high school youth as community health workers.

Jasmine Shih, Stanford University Grad Student, Former SPIN Intern
Jasmine previously worked as a web developer at Verizon Media in the UIUC research park after she received her bachelor's degree in computer science from UIUC in May 2019. During college, Shih was a student intern at the Advanced Visualization Lab, where she worked on web development and conducted research on developing scientific data visualizations in a game engine. Interested in user-centered research and interactive data visualization, Shih will be attending the Masters in Computer Science program at Stanford University with a specialization in human-computer interaction this fall.

Sarah Habib, Caltech Ph.D. Student, Former SPIN and REU Intern
Sarah is currently a Physics Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Technology. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2020 with a degree in Engineering Physics. Sarah is a former intern of NCSA's SPIN, REU-INCLUSION, and Gravity Group programs. During her time at NCSA, she authored six publications on astrophysical topics ranging from integrating simulation corrections for binary black holes using the Einstein Toolkit and using numerical relativity to detect gravitational waveforms.

This event is open to all affiliates of NCSA and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please feel free to share this information with colleagues, peers, and friends. We look forward to seeing you there!

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