Diversity Outreach Committee

A number of CELEST programs are targeted at increasing opportunities for groups underrepresented in science to participate in its innovative curriculum and research initiatives including graduate fellowships, summer internships for faculty from minority-serving institutions, a ten-week summer program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups to work in CELEST faculty labs, and a summer workshop to introduce undergraduates to the interplay of modeling and experimental techniques in cognitive neuroscience.

The Diversity Outreach Committee consults with the CELEST Board, making suggestions and assisting recruitment for all of CELEST’s efforts to build a center whose membership reflects our larger society and whose outputs benefit all.

Diversity Outreach Committee at a Glance

  • George Alvarez

    George Alvarez

    Harvard University CELEST Governing Board
    Assistant Professor of Psychology
    Co-Director, Vision Science Laboratory
  • Roscoe Giles

    Roscoe Giles

    Boston University Executive Director, Institute for African American E-Culture
    Team Leader for Education, Outreach & Training, National Computational Science Alliance Executive Committee
    Deputy Director, Center for Computational Science, BU
    Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Jacqueline Liederman

    Jacqueline Liederman

    Boston University Professor of Brain Behavior and Cognition Program
    Psychology Department
    Director, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory
  • Ramon E. Lopez

    Ramon E. Lopez

    University of Texas, Arlington Professor of Physics and Space Sciences
    Fellow, American Physical Society
    Co-Director for Diversity, Boston University Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), an NSF Science and Technology Center
    Chair, APS Forum on Education, 2005
    Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, 2002
    Past Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society