Highly respected leaders in various fields are invited to campus to meet our UROC Scholars and affiliates throughout the academic year. This innovative seminar series allows undergraduate students to take an active role in leadership seminars hosted by internationally distiguished faculty and academic leaders.
During the seminars, guest speakers provide an overview of their research/expertise before sitting down to engage students in a discussion surrounding the talk. This informal round-table discussion facilitates engagement of students with the speaker, to gain a better insight of their research and career pathway. In addition, the MARC Engaged Leaders discuss a professional skill the students will need to acquire and improve as the students progress in their careers. These engaged interactions provide students an enriching experience that will help broaden their scientific and career perspectives.
Please see below for a schedule of upcoming workshops and past presenters. The MARC Engaged Leders Seminar Series is sponsored by the NIH MARC U*STAR Program.
Upcoming Engaged Seminar Speakers:
Past Engaged Seminar Speakers:
"TO BE FIT
AND FAT:The
Physiological
Consequences
of Obesity
in Mammalian
Hibernators and
How I Got a Job"
05/05/17
|
Dr. Greg Florent
Professor and Director of Graduate Center for Diversity
and Access
Colorado State University
|
"Employing
Large-Scale
Genetics
for Therapeutic
Target Discovery"
04/07/17
|
Dr.Lino Gonzalez
President of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and Senior Scientist of Protein Chemistry Genentech
|
"Pushing the Lipid Envelope" 04/22/16 |
Dr. Gabriel Montano President of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and faculty member at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
"Role of Striatin in Mineralocorticoid Receptor Activation and Cardiovascular Disease" 03/16/16 |
Dr. Jose R. Romero Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital |
"Microparticle Targeting of the ETS |
Dr. Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann |
"Why Diversity Is Easier to Imagine |
Dr. Maggie Washburn |
"How Transcription Circuits Evolve |
Dr. Alexander "Sandy" Johnson |
"Regulation of Intrarenal Angiotensin II in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions" 09/15/14 |
Dr. L Gabriel Navar Chair, Department of Physiology Director, Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Hypertension and Renal Biology Tulane University Health Sciences Center |
"Why Doesn't Grandpa Know Who |
Dr. Linda Van Eldik |
"Finding a Secure Scientific |
Dr. Ernest D. Marquez |
"Diversity and Good Science" |
Dr. John Matsui |
"Journey Through Academia" |
Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez |