FASIT Team Resources
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Scholars (2015-2017)
The ADVANCE Scholar Program is a mentoring program that matches women faculty of color with an internal advocate and an external eminent scholar in their field. The internal advocates, all members of the committee that designed the program, serve to broade...
Marisol Perez
Marisol Perez Associate Professor Psychology “My program of research encompasses both theoretical and applied studies in the area of eating psychopathology and obesity, often using a focus on Latino populations.”...
Student Diversity Training
Diversity Performances In order to improve the workplace climate for women faculty – and indeed all faculty – the ADVANCE Center is engaged in an effort to teach students that respecting all faculty is part of the culture of excellence at Texas...
Merit Pool Incentives
Christine Stanley, the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity (VPAPD) and ADVANCE Co-Investigator, and her Council on Climate and Diversity (CCD) annually assess the progress made by each university unit (academic colleges as well as non-academ...
LEAD Program
Professional Development for Department Heads The ADVANCE Center is collaborating with the Office of the Dean of Faculties to enhance diversity training for Department Heads as well as other departmental leaders. ...
STRIDE Program
What is STRIDE? The Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) Program aims to provide training for all members of search committees to reduce bias in decision making in the faculty selection process. It is separat...
STRIDE Workshop Materials
STRIDE Presentation Key Research Findings on Implicit Bias Letters of Recommendation Activity Things to Remember When Reviewing/Writing Letters of Recommendation Examples of Job Postings with Inclusive Language Applicant/Interview Evaluation Tool List of A...
Faculty Recognition
The Faculty Recognition activity is focused on highlighting the successes of and improving the recognition of TAMU women faculty. In partnership with various units (e.g. the offices of the Dean of Faculties and Vice President for Research), ADVANCE works t...
Success Circles
The ADVANCE Center facilitates peer mentoring groups known as Success Circles for women faculty based on professional and personal interests. This activity functions as a complement to existing one-on-one mentoring (e.g. in departments, the Women’s Facu...
FACULTY CONVERSATIONS
Jane Welsh
"Her research focuses on mechanisms of disease pathogenesis of neurotropic viruses, immunological therapies for multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, and neuroimmunological changes in the injured CNS."
Claire Katz
"Being part of the university has always been about something more than just a job."
Dorothy Shippen
"My research utilizes biochemical, molecular genetic, and cytological approaches to study the structure, function and maintenance of telomeres."
Elena Castell-Perez
"Interests in characterization of food and biological materials, biomass pretreatments for bioenergy, food rheology, smart packaging systems,and food safety technologies"
Hong Liang
"My research group develops innovative processes to generate nanomaterials and coatings."
Karen Wooley
"My research activities combine organic syntheses, polymerization strategies and polymer modification reactions in creative ways to afford unique macromolecular structures"
Kim Dunbar
"My research spans topics in synthetic, structural and physical inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry."
Marcetta Darensbourg
"The ultimate, home-run, goal of my work is to synthesize and develop a robust, highly active hydrogen-producing catalyst comprised of earth-abundant transition metals within a ligand environment that is inspired by the biological hydrogenase (H2ase) enzyme active sites."
Olga Kocharovskaya
"My research interests are quantum coherence effects such as EIT, slow light, LWI, etc. "
Patricia Pietrantonio
"My research centers on insecticides, from both the toxins' and the insects' perspective."
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Xiaorong Lin
Associate Professor
Science
"The long term goal of my lab's research is to seek better approaches for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of fungal diseases."
Yu (Yvette) Zhang
Assistant Professor
Agriculture and Life Science
"My research interests include Industrial Organization, Markets and Information Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, and Applied Econometrics. "
Zhilei Chen
Associate Professor
Medicine
"Research in the Chen group aims to apply biomolecular engineering principles to solve a variety of biological problems."
Wendy Jepson
Professor
Geosciences
"My interests are political ecology, environmental governance & politics, technology-society interaction, communities, environmental justice & water resources in the US"
Wendy Moore
Associate Professor
Liberal Arts
"My primary areas of interest are race & ethnicity, critical race theory, sociology of law, and ethnographic methods, along with the intersection of race, class, & gender"
Verna Keith
Professor
Liberal Arts
"I focus my work on mental health, medical sociology, and race/ethnicity."
Victoria Salin
Professor
Agriculture and Life Sciences
"My research specialty is in applications of real options theory to agribusiness investments, currently analyzing food safety risks and risk-shifting contracts."
Tracy Rutherford
Associate Department Head
Agriculture and Life Sciences
"My work is fueled by my interest in visual communication, agricultural communications, and new media."
Ursula Mueller-Harknett
Professor
Science
"My work is especially focused on semiparametric models and stochastic processes. My other research interests include asymptotic efficiency and missing data."