
We hope you'll join us for the 3rd Annual Future Faces of STEM Conference. Once you register, you will receive Zoom links to the event.
Keynote Address ~ Networking ~ Graduate School & Career Panels ~ Resource and Recruitment Fair
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10am - Introductory Remarks
10:15 - Opening Keynote, Keolu Fox, Ph.D., UCSD
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11am - Graduate School Panel
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2pm - Resource & Recruitment Fair
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11am - Closing Keynote, TJ Tallie, Ph.D., USD
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12pm - Roundtable
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Opening Keynote, October 8th at 10am
Native Hawaiian geneticist, indigenous rights activist, National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist at UCSD, Dr. Fox, uses human genome editing to examine links between variations and disease in underrepresented populations. He advocates for more inclusive and representative genome sequencing to allow indigenous populations to gather and analyze their own genetic data.
Out of 2,700 solutions from 135 countries, Dr. Fox and his Team's "Digital Tools for Indigenous Genomics" is one of 15 MIT SOLVE Indigenous Communities Fellowship Finalists! He and his Team are partnering with museum experts at the Bishop museum (Honolulu, HI) to design digital tools to safeguard against predatory access to ancient Indigenous remains (and our genomes). Imagine using computer vision technology (i.e. machine learning) to prevent the sale of human remains online.
To vote for their solution to help them win the community prize, follow the link and instructions, below:
https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/2020-indigenous-communities-fellowship/solutions/24115
1. Create an account
2. Go to the drop down menu under Challenges click Finalist
3. Scroll to the challenge that is highlighted gray and vote for, Prof. Keolu Fox, "Digital strategies for Indigenous genomics."
Closing Keynote, October 10th
T.J. Tallie specializes in the comparative settler colonial and imperial history, with a focus on South Africa. His interests, broadly defined, involve colonialism, gender and racial identity, indigeneity, and religious expression. At USD, he teaches courses in African History, Global History, Pacific History, and Gender and Sexuality. His book "Queering Colonial Natal" takes the reader on "travels to colonial Natal established by the British in 1843, today South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to show how settler regimes “queered” indigenous practices."
Dr. Tallie is interested in thinking with students around questions of power, belonging, and community, especially with his students majoring in STEM fields.
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