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
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George Alvarez
Harvard University
CELEST Governing Board
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Co-Director, Vision Science Laboratory
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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
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Jacqueline Liederman
Boston University
Professor of Brain Behavior and Cognition Program
Psychology Department
Director, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory
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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