AGEP Summer 2011

What a busy summer we have had!  IU AGEP has had many students and faculty participate in events this summer. 

Jose, Amy, Jeremy, and Nancy - Graduate Student Panel

July was a full month. We hosted the IUPUI Herbert Summer STEM students at the Bloomington campus, showing them around and hosting panal disscussions and meetings with professors.

AGEP represented IU at the Kappa Alpha Psi Fair in Indianapolis.

Howard PFF Summer Institute

IU attended Howard PFF Summer Institute Washington, D.C. June 9-11. IU participants include: (1) Christy Erving, Sociology (2) Diedre Redmond, Sociology; and, (3) Verleen McSween, Vision Sciences.

Institute for Broadening Participation

Dean Yolanda Treviño attends an Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) training session with AGEP colleagues from SUNY, UMBC, and Cornell.   Sign up to receive NSF, NIH and NASA information on graduate student research support, as well as post-doc and faculty opportunities at:  http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Form.asp

April 2011 GLASS Conference in Chicago, IL

The Great Lakes Alliance for Social and Behavioral Sciences (GLASS) held their annual graduate student research conference April 22, 2011. Indiana University had six students selected to present their original research, there students were: Christine Davis, Eric Grollman, Caralee Jones, Chantalle LaFontant, Alexander Lu, and Gabriel Serna (no pictured). This conference is designed to give graduate students in SBES (social and behavioral sciences) an opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from their peers and faculty from the seven universities that comprise the GLASS Alliance.


Christine Davis, Counseling and Educational Psychology, presented on her research titled, "Moderating Effects of temperament on the Relations between Religious Education and Religiosity at Grade Six and Age Fifteen". Her conclusion confirms her hypothesis that there is a moderating role of difficult temperament on the relation between religious education and religiosity.

Eric Grollman, Sociology, presented his research on, "The Effects of Multiple Forms of Perceived Discrimination on Health among Adolescents and Young Adults." He investigates whether the relationship between perceived discrimination and health varies by the number and type of discrimination.

Caralee Jones's, African American and African Diaspora Studies, research is focused on the, "Interpersonal Relationships among Africans, African Americans, and West Indians. She explores the factors that help or hinder the interpersonal relationships among these groups.

Chantalle LaFontant's, Public Affairs, research is tilted, "Path Dependencies: Haiti's Unconsidered Obstacle". She looks at the factors in the "Haiti situation" that seem intractable using path dependency theory.

Alexander Lu, Sociology, explores discrimination and immigrant laws. His research is titled, "Intersections of Discrimination in Immigration Law: Narrating Chinese Women's Experiences during the Chinese Exclusion Era".

Gabriel Serna, Education, looks at the relationship between tax and expenditure limitations and tuition prices. Her research is titled, "Foundations for an Empirical Analysis of TELs and Public University Tuition Prices".

IU Graduate Student Recieves The City's Commission on the Status of Black Males 2011 Outstanding Black Male Leader of Tomorrow Award

Former Emissary for Graduate Student Diversity and Indiana University graduate student in microbiology Adrian Land received the city’s Commission on the Status of Black Males 2011 Outstanding Black Males Leader of Tomorrow Award. Land said he simply wants to be a person who does his part to build bridges and open doors for other people, as so many have done for him.

As a member of the commission, Land has served as a co-facilitator of workshops for the IU Men and Women of Color Conference.
He is a member of the Midwest Crossroads Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, an emissary for graduate student diversity through the IU Graduate School, an ambassador for the Office of Diversity Education, and was a participant in the 2009 Compact for Faculty Diversity.

Land also serves as a house parent for Stepping Stones and is a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

NSF Emerging Researchers Conference, Washington D.C.

The Indiana University Graduate School and Midwest Crossroads Alliance were represented at the Emerging Researchers Conference by Lesa Huber, Applied Health Science, HPER, Constance Brown, Atmospheric Science/Geography, Garfield Warren, Physics, and Assistant Dean Yolanda Treviño, University Graduate School  in Washington, D.C. February 24th-27th. The Emerging Researchers Conference was hosted by the National Science Foundation. This was a great opportunity to recruite students in the STEM disicplines and network with other professionals.

Post Doctoral Position Listings:

IBP has been working on keeping post doctoral openings posted on a new web portal: http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/Postdocs_portal.asp. We share this information through outreach with AGEP students. Please encourage students who are interested in seeking a post doctoral position to check the listings on this page and to consider posting their profiles here. If you find profiles on this page or on www.agep.us or on www.pathwaystoscience.org that need updating please take a minute and let us know! Also, feel free to share this link with other colleagues who are seeking candidates for post doctoral openings.

You can send information to me directly by email or you can utilize the link below to suggest changes or other program information--whatever is most convenient for you.

Post Doctoral Opening Posting Link:

http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/programform.asp