• Date of event:Apr 23, 2025
  • Time of event:12 - 1:30pm
  • Location:
    HST L-185
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Lehigh ADVANCE Center, together with Dr. Cheryl Matherly, VP of International Affairs invite you to a panel discussion on April 23 12-1:30 to widen the aperture on the experiences of Lehigh's internationally born/trained trainees and faculty in STEM fields, especially who are women identifying. The panel will consist of folks across an academic STEM career with grad student, postdoc and faculty discussants.
 
Panelists include:
 
  • Xuanhong Cheng, MSE, Full Professor
  • Chioma Chigozie-Okwum, CSE, Doctoral Student
  • Jiin Jung, Psych, Assistant Professor
  • Sreeja Sasidharan, Physics, Postdoctoral Scholar
 
This panel is sparked, in part, by the following two publications: 
 
Sue Rosser. 2024. “Towards a Better Understanding of the Experiences of FB/FT STEM Faculty: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Metasynthesis of the Literature through Intersectional Lenses of Gender and Race/Ethnicity.” ADVANCE Journal 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.5.2.3.
 
and 

Shulamit Kahn, Megan MacGarvie. 2024.  "New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences"  Research Policy, Volume 53, Issue 9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105077 which was summarized in Science.