This page highlights STEM & CTE Educational opportunities & events occurring in our region. Most events are free & virtual.
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Outside the Lab with Dr. Kishana Taylor
March 10, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Please join us for the annual Women in Science Outside the Lab Speaker Event, part of the EECB Seminar Series with Dr. Kishana Taylor, Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
“Prioritizing Intersectionality in Interdisciplinary Infectious Disease Research: Intersectional identities (and scientists) must inform how we study disease”
Wednesday, March 10th 4:00-5:00 PM
Free and open to the public!
Dr. Kishana Taylor, a Postdoctoral Research at Carnegie Mellon University, is the invited speaker for the annual Womxn in Science Outside the Lab Speaker series. Please join us for Dr. Taylor’s virtual talk, a grad student lunch, and other remote events throughout the day. This talk is in partnership with the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (EECB) seminar series.
Dr. Kishana Taylor is a virologist, cofounder of Black In Microbiology and advocate for minoritized groups in STEM. Dr. Taylor’s research interests include arboviruses, zoonotic viruses and their epidemiology, ecology and evolution. Dr. Taylor also serves as a Councilor for Virology Trainees with the American Society for Virology.
Special thanks to our funding sources – SOA and the President’s Commission on the Status of Women.
We look forward to seeing you there,
WiS Executive Board
