November 13, 2019
The UMass Amherst Institute for Global Health (IGH) in collaboration with the STEM Ambassadors Program hosted a symposium titled “Achieving Global Equity through STEM Education: Health, Environment & Policy” on Thursday, November 21. The daylong event featured a keynote panel headlined by Dr Carol O'Donnell, Director of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, who discussed the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals project. Additional panelists included Gary Toranzos, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras; Rupika Delgoda, Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology, the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; Laurel Royer, Managing Scientist at Exponent; and Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, Lecturer of Math, Harvard University. The panel was chaired by Jennie Ward-Robinson, CEO of the Alliance for Global Health Innovation and a member of the SSSEC Advisory Board.
Symposium panelists and organizers (left to right): Sonji Johnson-Anderson, Timothy Ford, Jennie Ward-Robinson, Gary Toranzos, Carolyn Gardner-Thomas, Rupika Delgoda, Laurel Royer, Margaret Riley, and Carol O'Donnell. Image: University of Massachusetts Amherst
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