The External Advisory Board provides an expert perspective on the Program development and implementation, members are volunteers who have expert knowledge of academic and research affairs including in STEM fields at organizations and institutions sharing their mission with UMass Amherst.
Anna Branch
Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Monica Cox
Professor, Chair of Department of Engineering Education, Ohio State University
Priya Natarajan
Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Department of Physics, Chairman Women Faculty Forum, Yale University
Martina Nieswandt
Vice President of Research, Chapman University
Mia Ong
Senior Research Scientist and Evaluator at TERC, a STEM education research organization
Bobby Schnabel
Professor of Computer Science, external chair of the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty Director for Entrepreneurship, and Campus Thought-Leader on Computing, University of Colorado at Boulder
Mary Deane Sorcinelli
Co-Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Education STEM Initiative
Association of American Universities (AAU) and Professor Emeritus & Senior Fellow, Center for Teaching & Learning, UMass Amherst
Martin Storksdieck
Director of the STEM Research Center and Professor of Education, Oregon State University
Kathrin Zippel
Einstein Professor in the Department of Sociology focusing on Gender Studies at Free University of Berlin
