By BRiDGE Committee Member Mariela Garcia Arredondo Our last BRiDGE2Impacts event of Fall 2018 ended with a deep and intimate look at the academy and the barriers it poses on members of our society from becoming part of & contributing to our scientific community – specifically, single mothers. Dr. Samantha Ying made the academic trajectory…
By BRiDGE Committee Member Nigel Golden In the movie Black Panther, the brilliant Scientist Shuri states that: “Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.” This is essentially what Dr. Nyeema Harris makes the case for when it comes to redefining “impact” in academia. At the BRiDGE2Impacts talk, “The fierce urgency of now…
By BRiDGE Committee Member Benjamin Keisling Do you know what a bedbug looks like? That’s the first question that BRIDGE Scholar Dr. Andrew Greenlee posed to the audience at his BRiDGE2ImpactsPresentation, titled “BRiDGE2Impacts: Strange Bedfellows? Creating an Interdisciplinary Space for Research on Housing Policy and Bedbugs.” A few people in the room could correctly identify…