Young-Kee Kim '90 (PhD) Forum on Global Science and Society

Tuesday, March 23
1 - 2 p.m. (ET)
Virtual

The 2020 documentary, Picture a Scientist, has sparked discussion in the scientific community and beyond about the critical issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in science. The film chronicles women scientists’ experiences with harassment, implicit gender bias, and entrenched institutional discrimination, and showcases scientific luminaries who are changing the culture of science and providing new perspectives on how to make it more diverse, equitable, and open to all. Join our panel of women scientists for a discussion about the film, their personal experiences with gender bias, and the role we all play in changing the culture of science.

A link to view the film, Picture a Scientist, will be included in your registration confirmation email. The 1 hour, 35 minute long documentary will be available from March 16 – March 30 for viewing at your leisure.

Panelists:
Young-Kee Kim ’90 (PhD)
Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Scientific Initiatives, University of Chicago

Ellen Matson
Wilmot Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester

Tara Peña ’19 (MS)
PhD Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester

Moderator:
Gloria Culver ’94 (PhD)
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester
Professor of Biology, University of Rochester

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Speaker bios:

Gloria Culver ’94 (PhD)
Gloria Culver was first appointed the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and was recently reappointed for another five-year term. As dean, she handles matters relating to the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural and physical sciences departments and programs. With others in the Deans’ Office, Culver is involved in the recruitment and review of faculty, strategic planning, and budget planning.

Culver received a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Rochester in 1994, after earning a bachelor’s degree in 1988 from Ithaca College. Culver’s research was continually funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) starting in 1999 and until 2016. She served on several NIH study sections in a role as ad hoc and permanent member and then as panel chair. Her expertise has also been called on to aid in review of ranking members of NIH leadership and on new funding models. Prior to her deanship, Culver served as the first woman chair of the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester. While an obvious science “nerd”, her role as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences has allowed her to professionally realize her long standing appreciation of the humanities and arts and to be a strong advocate for broad educational opportunities and for diverse, inclusive learning environments across a spectrum of fields.

Young-Kee Kim ’90 (PhD)
Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor, chair of the Department of Physics, and senior advisor to the provost on global scientific initiatives at the University of Chicago. As an experimental particle physicist, she has devoted her research to understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles. Between 2004 and 2006, she co-led Tevatron’s CDF experiment, a collaboration with 600 physicists from around the world. From 2006 to 2013, she was deputy director of Fermilab. She is currently working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider as well as on accelerator physics.

Kim was born in South Korea, and earned her BS and MS from Korea University, in 1984 and 1986, and her PhD in physics from the University of Rochester in 1990. After postdoctoral research at Berkeley Laboratory, she became professor of physics at University of California, Berkeley. In 2003, she joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Sloan Foundation. She received the Ho-Am Prize, the Women in Science Leadership Award from the Chicago Council of Science and Technology, the University of Rochester’s Distinguished Scholar Medal, and Korea University’s Alumni Award.

Ellen Matson
Ellen Matson is the Wilmot Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rochester. Her research focus is on ways to modify metal oxide clusters to improve energy storage and production. Matson was one of five inaugural recipients of the Course Hero-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and has been a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. In addition, she received a teaching innovation grant from the University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to improve the curriculum for undergraduate laboratories. Matson earned dual degrees in chemistry and science education from Boston University in 2009 and earned her PhD in inorganic chemistry at Purdue University in 2013.

Tara Peña ’19 (MS)
Tara Peña received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Adelphi University in 2017 and her master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rochester in 2019. She is currently pursuing her PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Rochester. A first-generation student from Queens, New York, she was awarded the Provost’s Fellowship by the University, then later the NSF GRFP fellowship. Peña’s research in Professor Stephen Wu’s lab is in strain engineering two-dimensional materials for nanoelectronic applications.

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