Deadline to register is April 1, 2016
(Seating is currently full, however we are working to expand availability. To be placed on wait list, email peer@utk.edu.)
Symposium Schedule
- 8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast
- 8:30 AM Plenary Session: Keynote Speaker: Fatimah Williams Castro, Ph.D.
- What Can I do with a Ph.D.? Career Options for Academics
- 9:35 AM CV/Resume Building and Information Session by Kertesha Riley
- 10:30 AM Workshop: Beyond the Elevator Pitch: Effectively Communicate Your Research & Your Why by Fatimah Williams Castro, Ph.D.
- 12 NOON Networking Lunch
- Hosted by the UT Graduate School
- 1:15 PM Panel 1: Non-academic careers in STEM
- Jan E. Brown, Manager, Ethics & Employee Concerns at Tennessee Valley Authority
- Dr. Mitch Doktycz, Distinguished Staff Scientist Distinguished Staff Scientist and Leader of the Biological and Nanoscale Systems Group in the Biosciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Dr. Regina Easley, Government Sector
- Dr. Vernon McIntosh, Strategic Marketing and Technology R&D Manager, Animal Nutrition Division, Cargill Corporation
- Dr. Lance Miller, Project Manager, Research Partnerships Program at CRDF Global
- Dr. Janet Wilson, Government Sector
- 2:30 PM Panel 2: Academic Careers in STEM
- Dr. Angelia Gibson, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Maryville College
- Dr. Richard Gragg, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Florida A&M University, Director of the Center for Environmental Equity & Justice
- Dr. Sharon Jean-Philippe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Dr. Margaret I. Kanipes, Director of the STEM Center of Excellence for Active Learning and Associate Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina A&T State University
- Dr. Elizabeth Schussler, Director of Undergraduate Biology Education, Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Dr. Nekesha Williams, Post Doctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Science, Research Associate at CUNY City College of NY Department of Earch & Atmospheric Sceinces, and Visiting Professor at CUNY-Medgar Evers College in the Department of Physical, Environmental, and Computer Sciences