HUGs + STEM Lunchtime Conversation Series: Nadya Mason

CSREA - Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
Lippitt House
, 103

Please join us for lunch with Nadya Mason, Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Mason will engage in conversation with CSREA Director, Tricia Rose about women and people of color in STEM. What are the opportunities? What are the visible and invisible barriers and hurdles? What are some good strategies for leveling the playing field in the ever-expanding and influential STEM industries?

Space is limited, please RSVP below.

After this event, Dr. Mason will speak as part of the Thinking Out Loud Lecture Series. For more information on that event, including registration details, please visit this link.

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About the Speaker

Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is founding Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Director of the Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Dr. Mason is an experimental physicist who works at the intersection of complex materials, superconductivity, and nanotechnology. She is particularly recognized for her work elucidating the electronic properties of low-dimensional correlated materials, such as hybrid superconducting devices containing metal, graphene, or topological insulators. Mason received her bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University, her doctorate in physics from Stanford University, and engaged in postdoctoral research as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She has been a general Councilor of the American Physical Society (APS), a Chair of the APS Committee on Minorities, and works to both improve science communication and increase diversity in the physical sciences. Her TED talk on “How to spark your curiosity, scientifically” has over 450,000 views. Mason is a recipient of numerous awards, including the APS Maria Goeppert Mayer Award and the APS Bouchet Award. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science.