2020 ERN Conference Plenary Session Videos

Plenary Session I

Moderator:  Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS
NSF Welcome Remarks:  Sylvia James, Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for EHR, NSF
AAAS Welcome Remarks:  Sudip Parikh, CEO and Executive Publisher, Science Magazine, AAAS
Neela White, AAAS Project Director, HBCU Maker & Innovation Showcase

ERN Alumni Panel  
Panel Introduction:  Claudia Rankins, Program Director, EHR, NSF
Moderator:  Kelly Mack, VP, Undergraduate STEM Education, AAC&U and Executive Director, Project Kaleidoscope

Panelists:
Wesley Cuadrado-Castillo, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Monica Golgi, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Jones, Engineer, Corteva Agriscience
Alexandria Stewart, Undergraduate, University of Texas at San Antonio
Safira Sutton, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia, Athens

Plenary Session II

AAAS Welcome Remarks:  Se Kim, Deputy Chief Program Officer, AAAS
Moderator:  Camille McKayle, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas & St. Crox
Closing and Announcements:  Iris R. Wagstaff, ERN Conference Lead & NSF PI, STEM Program Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), AAAS

Panelists:
Davina Durgana, AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador & Adjunct Instructor School of International Service, American University
Diana Yousef, Founder and CEO of Change: WATER Labs and a AAAS Lemelson Invention Ambassador
Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health & Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park

Plenary Session III

Moderator:  Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS
Closing Moderator:  Iris R. Wagstaff, ERN Conference Lead & NSF PI, STEM Program Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), AAAS

Speaker:  
Crystal Emery, Founder & CEO, URU the Right to Be, Inc. and AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador

Plenary Session IV

Moderator:  Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS

Speaker:
John Urschel, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, MIT and Author, Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

Recognition of David and Lucille Packard HBCU Scholars:  James Stith, Vice President Emeritus, American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Recognition of the AAAS Policy Fellows, SACNAS Leadership Institute Alumni, and the L’Oreal USA for Women in Science (FWIS)Fellows:
Shirley M. Malcom, Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS
Iris R. Wagstaff, ERN Conference Lead & NSF PI, STEM Program Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), AAAS

Presentation of EFRI-REM Poster Awards:  Sohi Rastegar, Director of EFMA/EFRI, NSF

Presentation of the HBCU Making & Innovation Showcase Awards:  Neela White, Project Director, AAAS

Presentation of Oral and Poster Awards:  Jonathan Lambright, Professor, Dean of College of Sciences and Technology, Savannah State University
Shirley M. Malcom,  Senior Advisor, and Director of SEA Change, AAAS
Claudia Rankins, Program Director, HRD, NSF