STEMulating Conversations with Dr. Q

Dr. Carlotta Berry originally wanted to teach high school math, but her STEM journey has expanded well beyond. As an electrical engineering professor with a focus on robotics, Dr. Berry's impact and influence is felt at all educational levels and touches all genders, races and ethnicity. She believes that 'giving people the ability to learn about things they are interested in is LIFE CHANGING'. This principle holds true in both her professional and personal sphere of influence as evidenced by the founding of #NoireSTEMinist to giving pop quizzes on Twitter, to serving as a coach for her daughter's robotics team.

Learn more about Dr. Berry and her work in the field of robotics and diversifying STEM through her social media platforms:

@DrCABerry on Twitter, IG, TikTok

@NoireSTEMinist on Twitter, IG

https://noiresteminist.com/

A self-proclaimed "corporate dropout" who helps you to Live your purpose. Share your message. Change the world. One of the first steps to realizing your purpose is accepting that EVERYBODY NEEDS HELP. When we can get out of our own way and recognize what we need, we can do more and make a bigger impact--ON PURPOSE.

Her latest book, 'On Purpose: 12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Power and Change Your Life' can be found at platformforpurposebook.com

Social media handles: @ishacogborn

The HR Twins, Camille and Carla, have utilize their combined 30 plus years of HR experience to help style your career. They established The Career Salon to be a place where people can go to receive unfiltered and honest career advice from their unique and authentic perspectives. Both are passionate about their respective HR specialty area and offer behind the scenes views of recruiting and human resources functions to help clients achieve that next great opportunity, with style.

Follow the HR Twins on social media platforms @thecareersalon

Be sure to check out their YouTube discussion on The Miseducation of Corporate America

The HR Twins: Camille Tate and Carla Patton

Re-broadcast of Episode 83

Dr. Garry Cooper has blazed a career path in the span of 10 years than most will do in a lifetime. In the span of a decade, he earned a PhD in neuroscience, did a postdoc, worked at two different Big Four management consulting firms, co-founded and launched a successful company of which he is the CEO and still finds time to serve as an adjunct professor.

How does he do it? In everything aspect of his life, he has a guiding principle of "know your breakup point, and when it is reached, then it's time to walk away.

This #STEMulatingconvo covers his journey from the PhD to his day to day work at Rheaply, an asset management platform that plays a critical role in the circular economy by facilitating collaboration among scientists and entities conducting scientific research.

Also mentioned in this episode:

The Rheaply Website

Clip of Garry's March for Science Keynote in Grant Park

Email: Garry

Twitter @garrycooperjr

Twitter: @Rheaplyinc

IG: @Rheaply

From humble beginnings growing up between two housing projects in FL to becoming the Dean of a major private research institution in upstate New York, Dr. Darryl Scriven is an inspiration to all. He attributes the drive behind his success to these words, "there is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it and you are not too good to do what it takes to gt it done. Once you dispel that myth of being too good, you can get anything accomplished."

Seven years ago Darryl made a commitment to provide daily motivational video in a series call EVERY day I'm Hustling. You can access it from his YouTube page Doc Scriven

Dr. Grant Warner views the challenge of diversity in STEM and entrepreneurship as an opportunity for inclusion, because what many refer to as a pipeline problem he believes it is more accurately reflected as a pathway issue.

He discusses his educational journey and how he has leveraged his mechanical engineering PhD to have a voice and fuel his entrepreneurial mindset and ventures.

In this episode, we discuss the National Science Foundation I-Corps program and Black Tech Ventures, an organization he co-founded to empower African American tech-innovators and startup entrepreneurs and to foster a culture of entrepreneurship at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

We are excited to launch Season Four with Beronda Montgomery, PhD and celebrate the release of her new book Lessons from Plants. She shares key lessons learned from plants as it relates to mentoring, particularly about environmental fit and resilience. She also reveals her new leadership roles and her perspectives on why effective leadership is a critical component of change.

Follow Beronda on her social media platforms for thoughtful and thought provoking gems of knowledge and cool pictures of her travels while writing.

Twitter @BerondaM

Instagram @Beronda_M

#LessonsfromPlants can be found on bookshop.org

Beronda L. Montgomery, PhD is MSU Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology, she was named one of Cell's 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America.

June 27, 2020 is a doubly historic day for me. Today is the 3rd year anniversary of STEMulating Conversations. It is also the day that the Mississippi State legislature--in the House and Senate--voted to remove the current State flag that has flown since 1894.

The significance of this day and vote was definitely an occasion to connect with fellow PhD chemist and Mississipian, Dr. John Harkless, to have a awesome #STEMulatingconvo.

When you understand the context, the content is easier to digest. This is the guiding principle that will be used when we engage in STEMulating Conversations on the topics of diversity and inclusion, particularly as it relates to Black Americans in society and the sciences.

If you were to spend your time the same way you spend your money, what would your time bank account look like? Given that there will never be more than 24 hours in a day, managing the activities within that time may seem more like an art than a skill. Time management is a misnomer because you are managing activities rather than time.