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Tag: Emerging Scholar
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Apryl Alexander
Alexander began her research by focusing on individuals who had experienced various levels of trauma such as sexual assault, abuse, neighborhood violence or natural disasters. She studied how those violent incidents impacted them.
February 5, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Oscar Vasquez-Mena
To grasp the size of materials Dr. Oscar Vazquez-Mena studies, divide a millimeter — about the width of a dime — by 1,000. You’ll arrive at a micrometer, a unit roughly the size of bacteria. But don’t stop there; divide by another 1,000 and, finally, you reach Vazquez-Mena’s specialty: the nanometer.
January 31, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Cathy Wong
As Dr. Cathy Wong tells it, she “stumbled” into her career in academia after she walked into a lab and saw how colorful the lasers were.
January 30, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Maria Rosa
An elementary school classroom activity called the “reading rainbow,” which highlighted the day in the life of various careers, sparked Dr. Maria Rosa’s desire to pursue marine biology. One of the books she had read focused on a female marine biologist who worked with sea turtles both inside and outside the lab.
January 30, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Que-Lam Huynh
Studying issues of ethnic minority identity and marginalization comes naturally to Dr. Que-Lam Huynh, associate professor in the department of psychology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She remembers what it felt like to be an 11-year-old refugee from Vietnam thrust into a new life.
January 29, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Miltonette Craig
Dr. Miltonette Craig, an assistant professor of criminal justice sciences at Illinois State University, wants to know why police violence happens and how officers justify racially biased incidents to themselves and others.
January 27, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Nichole Margarita Garcia
Garcia has found a way to do what so many scholars find difficult: to combine the personal with the theoretical, bringing her lived experiences to her scholarship, and, in doing so, inspiring a generation of younger scholars to do the same.
January 27, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner
When Dr. Kabria Baumgartner went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn her Ph.D., she thought she was going to study 20th century African diasporic literature.
January 22, 2020
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