Day 1 – Friday, 29 October 2021

All times are Eastern time zone

Click a speaker’s name, below, to see biographical information and to watch recorded presentations.

1:00 PMWelcome by Co-Chairs, introduction, and opening remarks
1:10 PMWorkshop goals
Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., Intersections SBD Consulting
1:20 PMSession 1 (each to speak for 15 minutes): Early leaders in STEM from URGs:
Willie Pearson, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

John Slaughter, Ph.D., University of Southern California, First African-American
Director, NSF

Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D., University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. First woman Director of NSF

Moderator: Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., President, Intersections SBD Consulting
2:05 PMQuestions and answers session 1
2:20 PMBreak
2:35 PMSession 2: Leaders in Education
Vernon Morris, Ph.D., Director, School for Mathematical and Natural Sciences,
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., President, Intersections SBD Consulting

Gilda Barabino, Ph.D., President Olin College

Moderator: José D. Fuentes, Ph.D., Professor of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University
3:20 PMQuestions and answers session 2

3:35 PMBreak
3:45 PMSession 3: Leaders in the corporate world and foundations
David Asai, Ph.D.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Susan Windham-Bannister, Ph.D., Founding CEO, Massachusetts Life Science Center

Joan Y. Reede, M.D.,Inaugural Dean, Diversity and Community Partnership, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Assistant in Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital

Moderator: Nai-Chang Yeh, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Fletcher-Jones Foundation Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, California Institute of Technology
4:30 PMQuestions and answers session 3
4:45 PMBreak
4:50 PMPlenary session discussions


Moderator: Suzanne Barbour, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School and Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5:30 PMAdjourn

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through grant OIA-2140483