The University of Massachusetts Amherst

IDS hosts two sets of events every year:

Three photos: group in an event, sandwich and an expresso.

Research seminars are held throughout the academic year on topics involving equity in health, climate change, and learning & work. Faculty, post-docs, and student researchers present their work and receive cross-disciplinary feedback and the opportunity to develop collaborative projects. Scroll down to view seminars from Spring 2022!

The Creating Pathways to Social Good in your STEM Career series invites students to a series of "social hours" with professionals from a variety of STEM-related fields and diverse backgrounds who work in private industry, government, or non-profit sectors. Students will learn about STEM career paths, receive advice and mentorship on charting successful pathways, and learn how they can advance social good in/through their STEM career.  

February IDS Health Equity Research Group

Integrated Sciences Building Room 321
1.5 hours

Professor Favorite Iradukunda and Professor Andrew Lover's pictures.

Dr. Favorite Iradukunda (Assistant Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing): The Role of Diasporic Communities in Promoting Health and Well-being: Lessons from African Diasporic Women and their Communities.

Dr. Andrew Lover (Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology): Identifying and targeting highest-risk groups to maximize health program impact.

Lunch by Fresh Side

March IDS Learning & Work Equity Research Group

Life Sciences Laboratory (LSL) N410
1.5 hours

Photos of Speakers

Dr. Audrey St. John (Professor of Computer Science, Mount Holyoke): Learning to Make & Making to Learn.

Dr. Ina Ganguli (Associate Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst): Diversity Among Student Inventors.

Lunch by Fresh Side

March IDS Health Equity Research Group

Integrated Sciences Building Room 321
1.5 hours

Pictures of speakers

Dr. Katherine Reeves (Associate Dean & Associate Professor Epidemiology, Public Health): Exploring links between endocrine-disrupting chemicals and breast cancer

Dr. Kathleen Arcaro (Professor, Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences): Partnering with ROSE (Reaching our Sisters Everywhere) to involve Black women in research on breastfeeding and maternal and infant health

Lunch by Esselon Café.

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April IDS Learning & Work Equity Research Group

Integrated Sciences Building Room 145
1.5 hours

Photos of Speakers

Co-sponsored by CSSI, Equate, PIT, IDS: a Joint Meeting on Computational Diversity.

Dr. Przemyslaw Grabowicz, (Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UMass Amherst): Towards fair and explainable automated decision-making for hiring and student admissions

Dr. Ivon Arroyo, (Associate Professor of Computer Science, UMass Amherst): A Bilingual Mathematics Intelligent Tutoring System for Latinx students

Lunch by Esselon Café.

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April IDS Health Equity Research Group

Stockbridge Room 201
1.5 hours

Photos of speakers

Dr. Frank Sup, (Co-Director, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing): Untapping, Fostering and Empowering Innovation through Nurse-Engineer Teaming

Dr. Stephanie Fetta, (Associate Professor, College of Humanities & Fine Arts): The Science of the Soma: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Body as Subject

Lunch by Crazy Noodles.

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May IDS Learning & Work Equity Research Group

Stockbridge Room 201
1.5 hours

Photos of Speakers

Dr. Don Tomaskovic-Devey, (Professor, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology): An intersectional approach to job pay inequalities

Tessa Masis, (PhD Student, Computer Science): Investigating grammatical variation in African American English on Twitter

Lunch by Crazy Noodles

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