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The Diversity Team
The Diversity Team has developed tools and materials to enhance the learning environment for students in STEM. In addition, the Team is designing an outreach program within the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the goal of improving the climate within STEM departments.
Team Members
Judith Burstyn, Team Leader and Lead Scholar
Judith N. Burstyn is a Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology at UW-Madison, and former faculty director of the Women in Science and Engineering Residential Learning Community. A long time teacher of freshman chemistry, Judith was a leader in the redesign of the freshman chemistry curriculum and the chemistry major. Her research is in bioinorganic chemistry, studying the function of metal-containing proteins and metal-based compounds and materials in gas sensing.
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/Burstyn.php
Alberto Cabrera, Team Leader
Dr. Alberto F. Cabrera specializes in research methodologies, college choice, college students, classroom experiences, minorities in Higher Education and economics of education. He has consulted with the Pathways to College Network, Pell Institute, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA, the American Council on Education, Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education , US Department of Education, the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, the Argentinean Minister of Education, and with several universities in the USA and abroad. He has served in the editorial boards of Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education and Research in Higher Education. His work on classroom practices, the role of finances on college persistence and on determinants of default behavior has received several awards.
www.education.wisc.edu/elpa/people/faculty/cabrera.htm
Sherrill Sellers, Team Leader
Dr. Sherrill Sellers received her Ph.D. in Social Work and Sociology from the University of Michigan . She is now on the faculty of the School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Professor Sellers teaches in the areas of social policy, direct practice, and mental health. She is actively involved in policy research and publishes on race/ethnicity, gender, social stratification and health. Her most recent work considers the antecedents and consequences of social mobility.
socwork.wisc.edu/facstaff/facultypgs.php?facstaffID=158
Katherine Friedrich
Katherine Friedrich is an associate editor at CIRTL. In 2006, she completed her master's degree at the UW-Madison's Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Her program title was "Science and Environment Journalism." Her interests include the connections between race, class and the environment. She also writes about sustainable agriculture, energy resources, and brownfield reclamation. She holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and has four years of experience in heat transfer analysis and machine design.
Levi Giovanetto
Levi Giovanetto is a graduate student at UW-Madison in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in educational technology. His past work has focused on math anxiety, theoretical statistics, and student government. With the Diversity Team, Levi has helped to create Reaching All Students: A Resource Book in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. His studies currently focus on video games and how they relate to education, culture, gender, and race/ethnicity. He received his bachelor's degree with honors in psychology from Truman State University.
Angela Byars-Winston
Dr. Angela Byars received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University in 1997 and joined the faculty of the Counseling Psychology Department at UW-Madison in the Fall of 1997. Dr. Byars' primary research interest is the examination of cultural influences on the career development of African American women, specifically the influence of race and gender on career related self-efficacy.
www.education.wisc.edu/cp/faculty/byars.htm
Doug Henderson
Professor Douglass Henderson received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison . He is a nuclear engineer with research interests in magnetic and inertial fusion energy (MFE, IFE ) reactor systems, nuclear waste transmutation and fissile material characterization of waste, and neutral particle transport.
www.engr.wisc.edu/ep/faculty/henderson_douglass.html
Sally Leong
Dr. Sally Leong received her Ph.D. from the University of California - Berkeley . She is a professor at the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Her research interests include iron homeostasis, iron transport, chromatin-mediated gene control, zinc fingers, disease resistance, hot recognition, and genomics.
www.plantpath.wisc.edu/fac/sal.htm
Radhika Puttagunta
Research Assistant, Department of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
www.genetics.wisc.edu/student/grads.php
Jen Schoepke
Jen Schoepke is a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering, focusing on Human Factors. She holds an undergraduate degree in Physics / Mathematics Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now in her second year in the Ph.D. program, she is focusing on gender and minority issues in STEM and higher education reform. She started working with the Diversity Team and the Diversity Institute from their onset and the Delta Program Learning Community since July of 2004.
www.delta.wisc.edu
Michael Thornton
Dr. Michael Thornton received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology / Japanese Studies from the University of Michigan . He is a professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Most of his research interest is related to how and why people of color cross racial boundaries, and how experiencing race influences attitudes and perspectives. This is reflected in work which investigates how Black, Asian American and Latino newspapers cover race relations, factors influencing when Blacks feel close to other groups of color, and gender, racial and class differences in personal control and self-esteem.
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/aas/thornton.html
Lillian Tong
Dr. Lillian Tong is an Undergraduate Education Coordinator at the Center for Biology Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She develops and coordinates programs that provide opportunities through which faculty / staff can learn, share ideas and support each other in their innovation and improvement of teaching / learning in the biological sciences.
www.wisc.edu/cbe/about/staff.html
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