2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak Elon University [biography]

   Sirena Hargrove-Leak is an Assistant Professor in the Dual-Degree Engineering Program at Elon University in Elon, NC. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering and service-learning as a means of engineering outreach. Hargrove-Leak is an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education. With all of her formal education in chemical engineering, she also has interests in heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemical and pharmaceutical applications and membrane separations.

2. Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley North Carolina A&T State University [biography]

   Dr. Stephanie Luster-Teasley is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical, Biological, and Bioengineering. Over the last ten years, Dr. Luster-Teasley has demonstrated excellence in teaching by using a variety of research-based, student-centered, pedagogical methods to increase diversity in STEM. Her teaching and engineering education work has resulted in her receiving the 2013 UNC Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award, which is the highest teaching award conferred by the UNC system for faculty.

3. Dr. Willietta Gibson Bennett College [biography]

   Dr. Willietta Gibson, a native of Durham, North Carolina, is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Bennett College. She received her B.S degree in Molecular Biology from Winston-Salem State University and Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the Medical University of South Carolina. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) where she examined the sensitivity of inflammatory breast cancer cells to commercially available inhibitors of the sonic hedgehog signal transduction pathway. Dr. Gibson’s research interests include breast cancer health disparities amongst African-American women, natural products as chemopreventive agents in breast cancer and undergraduate STEM education. Dr. Gibson has taught Principles of Biology I and II, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Human Biology, Zoology and Biotechnology. She has a deep passion for teaching, helping others to learn, mentoring and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities entering into STEM graduate programs.

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