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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

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The 2023 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM will be held in Washington, D.C. on February 9-11, 2023.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. DUE-1930047. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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