AWARE-AI NRT: Workshop on Diversity Statements
DETAILS: A workshop on diversity statements, increasingly common in faculty job applications. Topics and activities will revolve around identifying diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice aspects. Participants will engage in activities that can be integrated into a diversity statement.
FACILITATOR: Dr. Scott Franklin, School of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science @RIT; Director: CASTLE (Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation); Director: Inclusive Excellent Project
BIO: Dr. Scott Franklin received his Ph.D. in physics from the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin and then undertook an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in STEM Education at Dickinson College. Since arriving at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2000, he has maintained two distinct research labs, advising numerous undergraduate researchers in both. His granular physics lab investigates powders and grains that, because of the particle shape, entangle and cohere. Relevant shapes include long, thin rods, U-shaped staples and needle-like pharmaceutical powders. His physics education research lab has studied how physicists attach conceptual meaning to mathematical formalism and, more recently, how student identities (e.g. deaf/hard-of-hearing, race and gender) lead to different experiences in classroom and research group interactions. He also directs RIT’s HHMI-funded Inclusive Excellence project, which works with faculty to develop more inclusive classroom and research environments. In his free time, he plays Ultimate frisbee and consumes unhealthy amounts of espresso.
Hosted by the AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program, this free workshop welcomes NRT Trainees and other RIT graduate students.
For more information about the AWARE-AI NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program and how to apply for a Traineeship, please see https://www.rit.edu/nrtai/
Contact:
AWARE-AI NRT Program,
awareainrt@rit.edu
585-475-2372
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