Recorded 2021 Sessions
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Day 1 Welcome and Exploring Your Institutional Fit Panel
Welcome Remarks: Sara Xayarath Hernández (Cornell MRP, City and Regional Planning), Graduate School Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement, Cornell University; Dr. Kathryn Boor, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Professor of Food Science and Global Development, Cornell University
Moderator: Dr. Colleen McLinn, Graduate School Executive Director of Future Faculty and Academic Careers, Cornell University
Panel:
- Dr. David Cortez (Cornell PhD, Government), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Notre Dame University
- Dr. Jakina Debnam Guzman (Cornell PhD, Applied Economics), Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College
- Dr. Maria Mercedes Franco (Cornell PhD, Applied Mathematics), Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Queensborough Community College – The City University of New York
- Dr. Hannah Ryan (Cornell PhD, History of Art), Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, St. Olaf College
- Dr. Aaron Thomas, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Director of Indigenous Research and STEM Education (IRSE), University of Montana
Video: Exploring Your Institutional Fit panel (requires Cornell Net ID login)
Faculty and Leadership Pathways at Minority-Serving Institutions Panel
Moderator: Sara Xayarath Hernández (Cornell MRP, City and Regional Planning), Graduate School Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement, Cornell University
Panel:
- Dr. Jessica Black, Director, Center for Indigenous Health, Culture & Environment, and Chair, Department of Natural Science, Heritage University
- Dr. Cristóbal Rodriguez, Associate Dean of Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
- Dr. Abel Valenzuela Jr., Professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, and Director of UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
- Dr. Dana Williams, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of African American Literature, Howard University
Video: Faculty & Leadership Pathways at MSIs panel (requires Cornell Net ID login)
Day 2 Welcome and Keynote Presentation: Un/Accommodating Structures: On Disability and Higher Education
Welcome Remarks: Sara Xayarath Hernández (Cornell MRP, City and Regional Planning), Graduate School Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement
Speaker: Dr. M. Remi Yergeau, Associate Professor, Digital Studies and English and Associate Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan
Video: Un/Accommodating Structures: On Disability and Higher Education keynote (requires Cornell Net ID login)
Presentation Transcript and Slides (requires Cornell Net ID login)
Concurrent Panels by Discipline: Establishing Your Scholarship and Research Agenda as a New Faculty Member
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Panel
Moderator: Dr. Colleen McLinn, Graduate School Executive Director of Future Faculty and Academic Careers, Cornell University
Panel:
- Dr. Anthony Burrow, Associate Professor of Human Development and Director of the Bronfenbrenner Center, Cornell University
- Dr. Honey Crawford (Cornell PhD, Performing and Media Studies), Collegiate Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, and Harper Schmidt Collegiate Fellow with the Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts, University of Chicago
- Dr. Ozias Moore (Cornell PhD, Human Resource Studies), Assistant Professor of Management, Lehigh University
- Dr. Nancy Quintanilla (Cornell PhD, English), Assistant Professor, Cal Poly Pomona
Video: Establishing Your Scholarship and Research Agenda – Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences Panel (requires Cornell Net ID login)
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Panel
Moderator: Sara Xayarath Hernández (Cornell MRP, City and Regional Planning), Graduate School Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement, Cornell University
Panel:
- Dr. Cédric Feschotte, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University
- Dr. Emilia Huerta-Sanchez (Cornell PhD, Applied Math), Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
- Dr. Jamol Pender, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
- Dr. Liz Wayne (Cornell PhD, Biomedical Engineering), Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Video: Establishing Your Scholarship and Research Agenda as a New Faculty Member – STEM Panel (requires Cornell Net ID login)