Career Chat: "Tips for Networking in a Culturally Diverse Context" with Dr. Ana Julia Paula Carcedo

February 22nd | 10am-11am | 215 Fairchild Hall conference room

Dr. Ana Julia Paula Carcedo is an international scholar from Argentina. After finishing her Ph.D. in Agronomic Sciences, she joined the K-State family as a post-doctoral researcher at the Ciampitti Lab. She specializes in modeling and crop simulations, with the goal of developing frameworks that impact the farmer's labor. With this in mind, she is passionate about crop ecophysiology and management.

RSVP for this Career Chat where Dr. Carcedo will discuss her career path, the intersections of her identities as an international female scholar, and tips for networking in culturally diverse contexts.

Career Chat: "NSF Funding Opportunties and Grant Writing for Graduate Students" with Dr. Dinah Davison

February 27th | 10am-11am | 215 Fairchild Hall conference room

Dr. Dinah Davison is a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow whose research focuses on how interactions between genes, development, and the environment have shaped the evolution of differentiated multicellularity. She is conducting her postdoctoral research with Dr. Brad Olson at Kansas State University. Dr. Davison received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona, where she worked with Dr. Rick Michod to examine the plastic development and evolution of somatic cells in the volvocine algae. Dr. Davison obtained a master’s degree in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Bath and a bachelor’s degree in Animal Biology from the University of California, Davis.

RSVP for this Career Chat where Dr. Davison will discuss her career path, NSF funding opportunities, and grant writing tips for graduate students.

Leading the Way: Women in STEM panel discussion

March 26th | 10am-11am | Hale Library room 307

The goal of this panel discussion is to empower women to take on more significant leadership roles throughout their academic careers and beyond. We aim to provide valuable perspectives on leadership, career growth and the importance of diversity in STEM leadership. The panel will consist of moderated discussions and will allow participants to ask questions and engage in dialogue with the panelists listed below. RSVP now to secure your spot and be a part of this impactful event!

• Chibuzor Mirian Azubuike is a social change person with different dimensions: author, social entrepreneur, and scholar-practitioner. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Diaspora and Transnational studies from the University of Benin and the University of Ibadan, respectively, in Nigeria. She is the author of The Girl Who Found Water and My Birthmark, My Gift. Chibuzor has over thirteen years of experience as a seminar facilitator and involvement in community development, focusing on youth/women empowerment and clean water provision. She has engaged over 10,000 youths through her book titled The Girl Who Found Water. She is also the founder of Haske Water Aid and Empowerment Foundation, which aims to provide portable water for rural communities and youth/women empowerment through capacity building. She has partnered with corporate and International Organizations through her NGO to give clean water to over 60,000 Nigerians. Chibuzor has also provided grants to several young people to embark on water projects. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow, Young African Scholar of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Next Generation of African Scholars, and other prestigious academic and international awards. She has also presented papers at several high-level conferences. Chibuzor is currently a PhD candidate in the leadership communication program of Kansas State University. She is also a Graduate teaching assistant for Culture and Context of Leadership. Her research interests include humanitarian interventions, civic leadership, youth development, women and migration.
• Katie Kingery-Page is a licensed landscape architect and associate dean in the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University. She leads the office of Student Academic Services and serves APDesign as associate dean for research. She joined K-State as an educator in 2004; she is a professor of landscape architecture and has served as affiliate faculty of regional and community planning. Prior to teaching, she worked in an interdisciplinary design practice focused upon urban design. Kingery-Page’s work explores the value of humanities knowledge for the practice of landscape architecture, a STEM discipline. Her experience spans sculpture, art theory, ecology, and landscape architecture. After undergraduate education in sculpture and liberal arts at Wichita State University, Kingery-Page studied ecology and art theory through Antioch College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Kansas State University. Kingery-Page’s inclusive placemaking/place-keeping centers on the many ways public space can be restorative to diverse audiences of people. As an engaged scholar, she has collaborated with colleagues, students, and communities to reveal local knowledge that helps people make meaningful decisions about the future of their places. Her interest is in participatory design, co-design, and public dialogues for inclusive place-keeping. She uses ethnographic methods in a participatory design process to engage the question of, ‘Whose meaning and values?’ are embodied in public landscapes. She has a special interest in landscapes of native plants due to their durability and provision of sustained ecosystem services.
• Dr. Caterina Scoglio currently holds the Paslay Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the director of the Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) Group at K-State. Scoglio’s research focuses on developing network-based theoretical results and tools in several fields. She conducts research in network theory problems and develops solutions to real-world problems in computer networks and infectious diseases modeling. Scoglio has acted as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on more than 30 projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation; the National Academies – Keck Futures Initiative; the State of Kansas; and the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Defense. Total funding granted for these projects exceeds $15 million. She also received the Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award in 2016 and the Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award in 2021 from the College of Engineering at Kansas State University; and the Commerce Bank and W.T. Kemper Foundation Distinguished Graduate Faculty award in 2021-2022 from Kansas State University.

KAWSE Ambassadors

The KAWSE Ambassadors student organization focuses on visits to local schools to encourage and inspire girls to pursue careers in STEM. The group meets bi-weekly on Mondays at 7pm in the K-State Student Union room 209. Meeting dates below:

• • January 22nd
  • February 5th
  • February 19th
  • More dates to come. Stay tuned!

Questions? Interested in joining? Contact Adyson Harm, Secretary of the KAWSE Ambassadors, to be added to the Ambassadors' mailing list.