Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Shira Heisler

Dr. Shira Heisler is the Medical Director of The Detroit Public Health STD Clinic and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Simone Chess

Dr. Simone Chess is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Diane Fuselier-Thompson

Dr. Diane R. Fuselier-Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Social Work.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Reyna Esquivel-King

Dr. Reyna Esquivel-King is an Assistant Professor in History and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Tanja Jovanovic

Dr. Tanja Jovanovic is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Renee Ludlam

Dr. Renee Ludlam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Rodlescia Sneed

Dr. Rodlescia Sneed is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Psychology.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Alaina De Biasi

Dr. Alaina De Biasi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Amanda Leggett

Dr. Amanda Leggett is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Psychology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Tonya Whitehead

Dr. Tonya Whitehead is the Associate Director in the Office for Teaching and Learning.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Hyun Jeong Koo

Dr. Hyun Jeong Koo is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Technology and Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Michelle Jacobs

Dr. Michelle R. Jacobs an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Elena Past

Dr. Elena Past is a Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Michelle Serreyn

Michelle Serreyn is a Ed.D student in the in the College of Education and our unofficial Campus Naturalist and a Detroit Biodiversity Network leader.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Andrea Tangari

Dr. Andrea Tangari is an Associate Professor in the Mike Ilitch School of Business, Department of Marketing & Global Supply Chain.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Suxuan (Sue) Xu

Dr. Suxuan (Sue) Xu is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Alana C. Conti

Dr. Alana C. Conti is Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Hannah Schacter

Dr. Hannah Schacter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Brooke Corbin

Dr. Brooke Corbin is the MARC Program Facilitator in the Department of Chemistry.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Marianna Sadagurski

Dr. Marianna Sadagurski an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Hanaa Hariri

Dr. Hanaa Hariri an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Melissa Runge-Morris

Dr. Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D is a Professor of Oncology and Director of the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors.
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Meet a Wayne Woman in STEM: Lucy McGoron

Dr. Lucy (Kathleen) McGoron is an Assistant Professor in the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child & Family Development.
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Research Findings

Our WSU-GEARS team has produced reports on three barriers for women and under-represented faculty: hidden and- uneven workload, work/family/life challenges, and toxic work environment.

Learn about the ways that hidden and uneven workload affects faculty in our Workload Minibrief from April 2024.

Examine faculty work/family/life challenges in the Work/Family/Life Minibrief and the Work/Family/Life executive summary from November 2023.

We report our findings related to a toxic work environment– and discuss our Bystander Leadership Workshop– in our Toxic Work Environment MiniBrief.

More research findings are available at our Reports page.

 

Wayne State University awarded NSF SIEDS grant

WSU was awarded the NSF Stem Intersectional Equity in Departments (SIEDS) grant along with our partners, Michigan State University and the Ohio State University, from the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program.

Please take the SIEDS faculty survey!

Your Voice Matters! The NSF SIEDS faculty survey is live.

 

Focus Group Report

The NSF WSU-GEARS team conducted focus groups with 29 tenure-track and tenured women faculty in STEM and non-STEM departments at Wayne State University. You can read about their experiences with hidden and uneven workload, work/family/life strains, and toxic work environment in the GEARS Focus Group Report.