{"71108":{"#nid":"71108","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vice Provost for Academic Diversity Named","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Anderson Smith announced that biomedical engineering Professor Gilda Barabino will serve as Tech\u0027s first vice provost for Academic Diversity (VPAD).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarabino will serve on the president\u0027s cabinet, and will assess, define and direct the Institute\u0027s growing diversity efforts, increasing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in both the student body and faculty.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A major challenge to academic diversity-one that is not unique to Tech-is transforming the culture and environment to one where diversity is infused throughout all aspects of teaching, learning, research and service,\u0022 Barabino said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith oversight of the Office of Minority Educational Development Services (OMED), the Center for Women in Science and Technology (WST) and Tech\u0027s FOCUS and ADVANCE programs, Barabino will spearhead the strategic development of Institute efforts to increase diversity in the Institute\u0027s established mission of research, education and service. FOCUS recruits under-represented groups into graduate school, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE initiative works to increase the representation of women in academic careers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBarabino is a professor and associate chair for Graduate Studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Her lab research focuses on vascular biology and tissue engineering, specifically sickle cell disease, cartilage tissue engineering and bioreactors. She earned her doctorate from Rice University in 1986 and her bachelor of science from Xavier University in 1978. In 2007 she was named a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe arrived at Tech in June 2007 after 18 years at Northeastern University, where she was a full professor and served as vice provost for Undergraduate Education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring a sabbatical at Tech\u0027s Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) in 2003-2004, Barabino initiated a project with West Georgia University psychology professor Kareen Malone and Tech\u0027s Director of Learning Sciences Research Wendy Newstetter to study gender and race in a laboratory setting-specifically, the labs within BME and IBB. \u0022Our work is ongoing and expanding,\u0022 Barabino said. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Most recently, Kareen and I completed a study focusing on the experiences of minority women in STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] fields, and how these experiences will impact identity formation as a scientist.\u0022 Barabino says she expects the study will be published this year in the journal Science Education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Barabino is principal investigator on the ADVANCE study \u0022Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty.\u0022 The three-year initiative, begun in 2007, engages in research-grounded activities to enhance socialization of tenure-track minority women in engineering, while also providing professional development opportunities for participants. Public Policy Associate Professor Cheryl Leggon is co-principal investigator.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This [initiative] is in keeping with my career-long interests and efforts related to academic diversity, and is reflective of my approach to all areas of my work-research, teaching and service-which is research- and data-driven and interdisciplinary in nature,\u0022 Barabino said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn recent years, several institutions such as Duke University, Columbia University and the University of California, San Francisco, have established provost-level positions relating to academic diversity. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am very pleased that Gilda agreed to accept this appointment,\u0022 Smith said. \u0022I think she has the necessary talent and skill for the job. She shows great enthusiasm and excitement about this initiative to make Georgia Tech a leader in academic diversity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Gilda Barabino, a professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, has accepted a cabinet-level position as the Institute\u0027s inaugural vice provost for Academic Diversity.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME Professor  named Tech\u0027s first vice provost for Academic Div"}],"uid":"27191","created_gmt":"2008-07-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Robert Nesmith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71109":{"id":"71109","type":"image","title":"BME Professor Gilda Barabino","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894628","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:48"}},"media_ids":["71109"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=103","title":"Gilda Barabino"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.provost.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Provost"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2047","name":"academic diversity"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"2046","name":"gilda barabino"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAnderson  Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of the Provost\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anderson.smith@carnegie.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Anderson  Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8366\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["anderson.smith@carnegie.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}