March 2020

Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.  Her research program in experimental social psychology focuses on stereotyping, implicit bias, and the experiences of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering.  Her research program has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity.  Dr. Sekaquaptewa served as associate editor for the American Psychological Association journals Personality and Social...Read more

Gymama Slaughter is the Executive Director of the Center for Bioelectrics. She received her B.S. in Chemistry in 2001, M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. She was selected to participated in the Office of Naval Research Sabbatical Leave Program at the Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (CBMSE) where she served as CBMSE Visiting Scholar and conducted research on the development of flexible biodegradable biological and chemical sensors. Slaughter develops and applies...Read more

Amelia Smith is an undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT)  from Macon, GA. She is a biomedical engineering major and social justice minor. She is actively involved in the National Society of Black Engineers, African American Student Union, GT Student Ambassadors, the Xi Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, and Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Community Diversity and Inclusion committee. During her time at GT Amelia has interned with Procter and Gamble, Cepheid, and Beckman Coulter Life Sciences in research...Read more

Dr. Nadji Rekhif is currently a Senior Flavor Scientist at Nestle Development Center Solon Ohio. He holds many scientific papers and patents, related to flavor generation, flavor enhancement, cooking aids etc. He is a member of the IFT protein division leadership. During his 25 years of international career with Nestle in Switzerland, Germany, Pakistan and recently the US, he has been leading several local and global projects as in flavor discovery, development and deployments in ambient and frozen food categories, e.g. seasoning, bouillons, Asian noodles and frozen meals. Over the past 4...Read more