{"id":458,"date":"2017-04-19T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/?p=458"},"modified":"2017-04-19T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:49:15","slug":"prof-jeffries-el-to-give-the-2017-dow-distinguished-lecture-at-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/2017\/04\/19\/prof-jeffries-el-to-give-the-2017-dow-distinguished-lecture-at-ucsb\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Jeffries-EL to give the 2017 Dow Distinguished Lecture at UCSB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"event-title\">Spring 2017 DOW Distinguished Lecture, will be given by professor Malika Jeffries-EL.<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">The graduate students for diversity in the sciences (GSDS) hosts\u00a0well-known individuals from academia, industry, and national labs\u00a0to campus two to three times each\u00a0academic calendar. These campus visits include two talks: a\u00a0technical talk describing their work and a\u00a0diversity talk, frequently a description of how\u00a0they got into their career and an informal discussion.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p>Additionally, UCSB student \/ post-doctoral\u00a0researchers and visiting CSU students have the opportunity for more one-on-one conversations with speakers during\u00a0meetings and meals. The DOW Lecture Series offers unique access to spectacular scientists, engineers, and people, and accordingly provides students scientific, professional, and personal insights.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Dow Foundation Lecture Series Goals and Objectives:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop a graduate student \/ post-doctoral researcher led seminar series in science that promotes research excellence and diversity from outstanding academic and industrial speakers.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage and broaden the participation of under-represented groups in science and celebrate the increasingly diverse and global landscape of the scientific community.<\/li>\n<li>Allow UCSB graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to visit the laboratories and research environments of academic and industrial speakers to establish collaborations, enhance networking opportunities and learn about future career prospects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"event-title\">She will give a scientific talk: Design and synthesis of organic semiconductors for advanced applications on Thursday 4\/20. She will give a public seminar:\u00a0Diversity Lecture, Malika Jeffries-EL: Taking the road less traveled: My journey to the Ivory Tower on Friday 4\/21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gsds.mrl.ucsb.edu\/?event=spring-2017-dow-distinguished-lecture-malika-jeffries-design-and-synthesis-of-organic-semiconductors-for-advanced-applications#\">http:\/\/gsds.mrl.ucsb.edu\/?event=spring-2017-dow-distinguished-lecture-malika-jeffries-design-and-synthesis-of-organic-semiconductors-for-advanced-applications#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2017 DOW Distinguished Lecture, will be given by professor Malika Jeffries-EL. The graduate students for diversity in the sciences (GSDS) hosts\u00a0well-known individuals from academia, industry, and national labs\u00a0to campus two to three times each\u00a0academic calendar. These campus visits include two talks: a\u00a0technical talk describing their work and a\u00a0diversity talk, frequently a description of how\u00a0they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}