HHMI Impact

Faculty

  • Barbara Marino's paper "Increasing Student Achievement in ECE Fundamentals Through Standards-Based Grading" has been accepted by the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. 
  • Tatiana Kuzmenko (Cohort 1 participant) presented "Empowering Learning Through Peer-mentorship and Research with Undergraduate TAs"  at the 2025 Lilly Conference in San Diego. 
  • Heather Tarleton presented "Faculty Adoption of Inclusive Pedagogies: Promotion Policies and Department Belongings as Carrots, Not Sticks" at the 2025 Annual National Conference for the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities 
  • Edward Mosteig and Kim Misa presented "Exploring Faculty Reflections on DEI in STEM" at the 2025 Lilly Conference in San Diego. 
  • Christina Eubanks-Turner presented "Shifting Faculty Beliefs and Embedding Equity in STEM" at the 2024 Association of American Colleges and Universities Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference

Students

  • Stephanie Flores presented at the 2024 West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, under the mentorship of associate professor of biology Demian Willette.
  • Alyssa Rodriguez presented at the 2024 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, under the mentorship of associate professor of biology Maria Christina Vasquez.
  • Marisa Gomez presented at the 2024 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, under the mentorship of associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry Kathryn Mouzakis.
  • Isabelle May presented at the National American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, under the mentorship of associate professor chemistry and biochemistry Steve Heller.
  • Megan Warner presented at the University of New Mexico McNair Conference and the UCI 2024 SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium, under the mentorship of assistant professor of physics, Emily Hawkins.