Come learn about science and enjoy salsa at 500 WS CU's science salon (TED talk style event featuring women in STEM) April 18th at 5:30pm in the Channing Murray (above Red Herring). During March and April in honor of Women's history month to raise money for science education in Puerto Rico. Please join us for our event!
We encourage you to grab a plate of delicious Red Herring dinner and head up stairs for an evening exploring the digital divide, Portuguese shipwrecks, nanotechnology and more featuring Dr. Yemaya Bordain, Dr. Gloriana Gonzales Rivera, Alida de Flamingh, Dr. Assata Zerai and Dr. Shanondora Billiot.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door, with a suggested donation of $10. Please RSVP, like and share on our event on Facebook, Facebook event, Instagram and Twitter
About Science Salons:
500 Women Scientists is celebrating the New Year by inviting you to join our Science Salons for Puerto Rico Campaign. For the last year, our amazing network of self-identifying women scientists have put their communication skills to use within their communities. Now, we’re channeling that energy into a concerted campaign across our pods. We’re asking our pods to host Science Salons — or public talks — in coffee shops, bars, and living rooms around the world during Women’s History Month in March. By charging admission, the Salons will serve as a vehicle to raise money to support our amazing partners at CienciaPR as they work to transform science education in Puerto Rico and around the world.
We encourage you to grab a plate of delicious Red Herring dinner and head up stairs for an evening exploring the digital divide, Portuguese shipwrecks, nanotechnology and more featuring Dr. Yemaya Bordain, Dr. Gloriana Gonzales Rivera, Alida de Flamingh, Dr. Assata Zerai and Dr. Shanondora Billiot.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door, with a suggested donation of $10. Please RSVP, like and share on our event on Facebook, Facebook event, Instagram and Twitter
About Science Salons:
500 Women Scientists is celebrating the New Year by inviting you to join our Science Salons for Puerto Rico Campaign. For the last year, our amazing network of self-identifying women scientists have put their communication skills to use within their communities. Now, we’re channeling that energy into a concerted campaign across our pods. We’re asking our pods to host Science Salons — or public talks — in coffee shops, bars, and living rooms around the world during Women’s History Month in March. By charging admission, the Salons will serve as a vehicle to raise money to support our amazing partners at CienciaPR as they work to transform science education in Puerto Rico and around the world.
Science Salon Speakers
Dr. Gloriana Gonzalez Rivera
Gloriana González is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, she is a former middle school and high mathematics school teacher. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She is the Principal Investigator of a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation that aims at investigating how to promote teacher learning through professional development. In 2015, she earned the Distinguished Scholar Award from the College of Education and the Emerging Scholar Award from the North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association. Her work appears in mathematics education and teacher education research journals. She is interested in supporting teachers in engaging all students in meaningful mathematics learning experiences. For more information visit https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/ggonzlz. Teaching the Teachers: How to make mathematics education more inclusive As a social scientist, I study mathematics teaching and learning. I will share my journey from teaching in Puerto Rico to creating a teacher professional development intervention. I discuss how this intervention supports teachers’ attention to student mathematical thinking. |
Alida de Flamingh I am proudly South African. I grew up on a farm in the North West province of South Africa. I study the genetics and genomics of modern elephants and ancient elephants, lions and fish. I am currently in the 3rd year of my PhD in the Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (PEEC). In my free time I like to make jewelry, watch birds, explore nature and travel. Some of my recent travel adventures include exploring India and The Netherlands, and I have been on several multi-day hikes across southern Africa. For more information follow Alida on Twitter: @adeflamingh Using DNA to determine the species and geographic origins of elephant ivory discovered in a 16th century Portuguese shipwreck Diamond mining in Namibia led to the discovery of a Portuguese shipwreck dated to be from the 1530’s. Excavation of the shipwreck revealed a rich cargo that included more than 100 unworked elephant tusks. In this talk I’ll tell you how we used molecular methods to determine the species and geographic origin of the elephants from which these tusks were harvested. |
Dr. Yemaya Bordain Graduating from Illinois’ ECE department in 2015, Yemaya Bordain became the first African-American female to graduate with a PhD. in electrical engineering. Outside of her studies she co-founded the Graduate Engineers Diversifying Illinois student organization and worked in the summers as the graduate coordinator for the Girls Learning Electrical Engineering camp. Today, Dr. Bordain is the program manager for innovation and pathfinding at Intel. As her linkedIn says: "I develops ideas and people" For more information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yemayabordain/ 
Dr. Shanadora Billiot Shanondora Billiot (United Houma Nation) has a PhD in Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She holds a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Michigan and both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from Louisiana State University. Prior to entering graduate school, Dr. Billiot had 10+ years of experience working in the field from crisis intervention and post-disaster grassroots community development to implementing and analyzing federal and international health and mental health policies. |
Dr. Assata Zerai Assata Zerai is the Associate Chancellor for Diversity and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois. Zerai’s research interests have included maternal and child health, health activism, safe water and sanitation, as well as diversity and LGBTQI inclusiveness in U.S. Protestant congregations, and making the work of marginalized scholars more accessible. Dr. Zerai’s recent books include: Intersectionality in Intentional Communities: The Struggle for Inclusivity (2016); Hypermasculinity and State Violence in Zimbabwe (2014). She has also authored Dehumanizing Discourse, Law and Policy in America (with Rae Banks,2002); and, Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa (forthcoming). She is currently completing her fifth book manuscript, African Women and the Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance. In Spring 2015, while Associate Dean in the Graduate College, Zerai began service as co-PI on a $1M award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to increase numbers of graduate students underrepresented in STEM. And 2015-16, Zerai served as co-PI on a US State Department award to offer a Young African Leaders Public Management Institute to Mandela Washington Fellows at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois. In 2017-18 Zerai is serving as a Big-10 Academic Alliance Leadership Program Fellow. |
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