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Betty Vetter Research Seminar Series
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Speaker: Albert Lee, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Summit Consulting, LLC,
Toward Effective Education of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Small Business: Results from a Survey of College Students and Graduates
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Dr. Lee is an expert in Economics, econometric modeling and estimation, and has more than ten years of experience
conducting and leading applied statistical analysis engagements. For the last five years, he has managed the MultiFamily
Risk Assessment Team, which provides statistical, data analysis, and research support to HUD. Dr. Lee has developed
fair-lending monitoring and compliance tools, validated the statistical validity and effectiveness of mortgage credit
scorecards, and estimated economic damages in antitrust and mass tort litigation. A graduate of the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) economics department, Dr. Lee has been a visiting professor at UCLA, George Washington
University, and Columbia University.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Speaker: Anna Duran, Ph.D., Founder and President, Duran Group,
The Business Case for Attracting and Retaining STEM’s from Diverse Backgrounds Into the R&D Enterprise
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This talk explored “idea equity:” how not paying attention to cultural knowledge can lead to failure of imagination and the
potential loss of solutions with economic and social consequences. Vexing challenges arise in R & D environments, such as
providing breakthrough innovation opportunities while minimizing risk. Attracting and retaining diverse, high ability STEM
talent may rest upon how work performance success is defined, the degree of support for new ideas and the provision of a
safe harbor to experiment and to fail. Data and case material will be presented to illustrate the business case. Innovation
implications for leading a diverse STEM workforce will be explored.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Speaker: Deborah Santiago, Research Director, ¡Excelencia! in Education,
Latinas in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
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Ms. Santiago presented information on the educational progress, strengths and areas of need for America's fastest growing
and youngest populations - Latinos. She focused on the areas of college enrollment, degrees earned and the workforce for
Latinos in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Speaker: Keith Crank, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Research and Graduate Education,
American Statistical Association, Degrees, Salaries and the Pipeline for Statisticians and Biostatisticians
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Statistics and biostatistics have seen tremendous growth in terms of the number of degrees awarded over the past five years.
Yet, demand for statisticians and biostatisticians continues to be strong. Dr. Crank provided current information about
degrees in statistics and biostatistics, salaries for statisticians and biostatisticians, and the pipeline of current students
in these fields.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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Speaker: Mikyung Ryu, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Center for Policy Analysis, American Council of Education (ACE),
Enrollment Trends of Minority Students at Institutions of Higher Education
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Dr. Ryu conducts policy research informing policymakers and campus leaders on topics that are critical for
improving the postsecondary education pipeline. Prior to joining ACE, she led Measuring Up: the National
and State Report Cards on American Higher Education project at the National Center for Public Policy and
Higher Education. As a direct result of her work on this project, Dr. Ryu is considered on of higher education's
new generation of thinkers (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 15, 2005).
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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Speaker: Shirley McBay, Ph.D., President, The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network,
The Impact of the Suppression of Small Data Cells in the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) Reports
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The decision in 2007 by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Science Resources Statistics (SRS)
Division to suppress data cells with small numbers in the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) report
caused a huge outcry from the data user community and others because of the importance of race/ethnicity
and gender (REG) data (the data most affected by the suppression) to knowledgeable and effective
planning, budgeting, and policy-making.
CPST members can download the QEM report on this topic by logging in using the box on the left.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Speakers: Homer Neal, University of Michigan, Interim President Emeritus, Tobin Smith,
AAU, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, and Jennifer McCormick, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics. The speakers are authors of the new book "Beyond Sputnik: U. S. Science
Policy in the 21st Century" (www.science-policy.net).
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Science policy exerts a huge impact on how the science and engineering communities conduct their work. Among other things,
the authors will discuss the science and engineering workforce in terms of the globalization of science and science policy.
What lies ahead for U.S. science policy in the future?
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Speaker: Leila Gonzales, Geoscience Workforce Analyst, American Geological Institute.
Tracking the Dynamics of the Geoscience Workforce
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In the U.S. geoscience workforce, increased demands for resources and environmental activities, relative
declines in college students entering technical fields, and expectations of growth commensurate with
society as a whole challenge the competitiveness of the profession. Because of prior business cycles,
more than 50% of the workforce needed in natural resource industries in 10 years is currently not in
the workforce. This issue is even more acute in government at all levels and in academic institutions.
This talk examined the current status of geoscientists in training to geoscience professionals in
government, industry, and academia in order to understand the disparity between the supply of and
demand for geoscientists.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Speaker: Dr. Joan Burrelli, National Science Foundation, Science Resources Statistics.
Changes Over 33 Years for Women Science and Engineering Faculty
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This talk addressed changes over time in employment of women faculty in science and engineering
fields, and provides data on the percentage of full professors and tenured and tenure-track faculty
that are women. Based on an NSF report, this is the first look at changes over time in women’s
propensity to attain full professorships and tenure. Dr. Burrelli looked at trends from 1973 to
2006 and found interesting changes by Carnegie type of institution, field of doctorate, marital
status, presence of children in the home, and year of doctorate.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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Speaker: Dr. Mark Regets, Senior Analyst, SRS/National Science Foundation.
An Overview of High-Skilled International Migration
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Science and enginnering have long been international, but international movement
of scientists and engineers has grown rapidly in size and importance. It has also
changed many of its characteristics, as more research is done through collaborations
across borders and through teams assembled through global recruitment. This presentation
reviewed some of the newest data and approaches to thinking about high-skilled international migration.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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Speaker: Roberta Spalter-Roth, Director, Research and Development, American Sociological Association.
Digital Science Libraries? What are they good for?
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What factors encourage or inhibit the diffusion of materials in the burgeoning number of web-based
digital science libraries and their impact for student learning? While digital science libraries
are increasingly common, systematic assessment of their impact is nearly absent.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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Speakers: Dennis Faber, TIME Director, Community College of Baltimore County and
Vera Zdravkovich, Ph.D., Director, CyberWATCH Center, Prince Georges Community College
CyberWATCH - Advanced Technology Education in the Nation, Maryland, and the DC Region
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CyberWATCH -- an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Regional Center for
security established in October 2005 with a grant from the National Science
Foundation -- has as its overarching goal improving quality and quantity of
security workforce in the region. As a consortium of nineteen higher education
institutions (eleven community colleges and eight four-year colleges/universities,
government agencies and businesses). CyberWATCH's mission is to improve the
quality and quantity of the security workforce in the Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia Region.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Speaker: Claude Desjardins, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics,
and Director of the Clinical Scholars Project, University of Illinois College of
Medicine, Clinical Scholars Project: A Progress Report on the Workforce for
Internal Medicine
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This talk examined the persistent decline in the physician-scientist workforce
for clinical research and the implications of this decline for future advances in
medical progress. New findings were presented to address the scale and scope of
clinical research accomplished by physician-scientists, early in their careers, in
the United States and Canada. The analysis included an evaluation of workforce
demographics, where physician-scientists are employed, their training for investigative
careers, employer expectations for clinical scholarship, and the quality for intra-
and extra-mural funding for clinical research.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Speakers: Brian H. Wells, Raytheon Chief Systems Engineer, Raytheon Corporate Engineering,
and Alex Sanchez, Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Mission Innovation Cross Business Team,
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Modeling Student Interest in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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For the past year and a half Raytheon, working with the Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF), has
been applying Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation to the challenge of increasing
student interest in STEM. This activity created a System Dynamics model of the U.S. education
system that is being used to predict how policy changes impact student interest and performance
in STEM over time. To date, modeling has focused on teacher capabilities and how teachers affect
student interest. Preliminary findings will be presented, along with a summary of in-progress
activities and plans for the future.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Speaker: Dr. Ruth Fassinger, Department of Counseling and
Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, Fostering Success for Women in Science:
Results from Project ENHANCE
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Project ENHANCE is a study of the experiences of 1,725 women scientists and 264
managers from 25 Fortune-1000 chemical companies. The goal of the study was to identify
factors that impede or facilitate women’s careers, and to highlight effective corporate
practices aimed at recruiting, retaining, and promoting women scientists.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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Speaker: Michael Gibbons, American Society for Engineering Education,
U.S. Engineering Trends: A Longitudinal and National Overview
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Engineering degrees increased steadily for the past seven years after a decade of
underproduction in the 1990's. The enrollment and degree data are now pointing in
different directions for the various degree levels. This has generated a lot of
discussion regarding America's ability to maintain a leading role in technological
innovation.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Speakers: Daniel Denecke, Ken Redd and Ting Zhang, Council of Graduate Schools, CGS Ph.D. Completion Project.
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The Ph.D. Completion Project is a seven-year, grant-funded project that addresses the issues surrounding Ph.D.
completion and attrition. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), with generous support from Pfizer, Inc. and
the Ford Foundation, has provided funding in two phases to 29 major U.S. and Canadian research universities
to create intervention strategies and pilot projects, and to evaluate the impact of these projects on doctoral
completion rates and attrition patterns. An additional 15 partner universities are currently participating
in various aspects of this project. In this section, CGS's Completion Project staff will provide an overview
of the project and give a summary of the results of the baseline program data, which includes the 10-year
completion rates by broad field and program at the participating institutions.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
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Speaker: Michaela Platzer, President, Content First, LLC, Leveraging the Power of Data.
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Good data, well presented has enormous power. This talk focused on
how to compile powerful facts and figures based on publicly available
workforce, education, and economic data and how to use these statistics
as a proven communications tool to educate policy makers, the press,
and the public. Practical examples of what has worked was highlighted
during the presentation.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
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Speaker: Lisa Frehill, Commission on Professionals in Science and
Technology (CPST), Minorities and Non-Minorities in Academia: Preliminary
Results from a Science and Engineering Career Path Comparison Study.
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Dr. Frehill presented preliminary findings from an 18-month Sloan
Foundation-funded project to examine minority representation in
the postdoctorate population and among faculty members in the natural
sciences, mathematics and engineering. The project specifically looks
at the representation of minorities in the relevant pools at various
academic career junctures, the distribution of minority postdoctorates
and minority faculty members across institutions and departments of
varying types, and the loss rates at critical transitions on the
pathway to and within the faculty.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
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Speaker: Jennifer Hobin, Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology (FASEB), The (Not So) Secret Lives of Scientists:
Exploring the Career Outcomes of Biomedical Doctorate Recipients.
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Many biomedical doctoral degree programs are designed to prepare trainees
for careers as faculty members at research universities. Yet, only
slightly more than half of biomedical scientists work in academia,
and even fewer are primarily engaged in research. Drawing on data
from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, this talk examined the career
outcomes of biomedical Ph.D. recipients working within and outside of
academia with a focus on the relationship between work activities,
sector of employment, and job satisfaction.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
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Speaker: Daryl Chubin, American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), AAAS Capacity Center: Data in Service of Institutional Change.
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The AAAS Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity was founded in
2004 as a research-based technical assistance consulting service with a
three-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This seminar
reviewed a series of academic client cases that have employed local and
national data on programs aimed at increasing the diversity and quality of
STEM education. A menu of convergent findings and nagging issues were highlighted.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
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Speaker: Michael Neuschatz, American Institute of Physics (AIP),
Making Sense of the Rise in Physics Enrollments: New Findings from AIP
Surveys.
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Physics enrollments are rising rapidly at both the secondary and
undergraduate levels. This talk looked at findings from recent AIP
surveys and other sources to try to discern some of the factors
accounting for the increase and gauge how durable the trend might be.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
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Speaker: Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association
(ASA), Measuring Professionalism in Science Occupations in an Era of
Transformation.
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This presentation featured findings from Dr. Spalter-Roth's study,
Redefining Professions Outside and Inside the Academy.
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