Below are the programs participating in the 6th annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Beckman Scholars Program
Brains & Behavior (B&B)
Center for Outreach, Research, and Engagement (C.O.R.E)
Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology-Center for Multiscale and Multimodal Brain Mapping Across the Lifespan (DMAP)
Humanities Inclusivity Program (HIP)
Humanities Inclusivity Program – Summer Immersion (HIP-SI)
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
Math Path
Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD)
Perimeter Research Assistantship (PRA)

Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Y. Evans
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Georgia State University, Student Center

Georgia State University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor, Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D. will present the keynote address entitled Mental Health and Our Life of the Mind: Lessons from Black Women’s Intellectual History

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans is a Professor of Black Women’s Studies and served as Director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University until 2022, concluding a dozen years of departmental administrative leadership. At GSU, in addition to WGSS she is affiliate faculty in the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for the Study of Stress, Trauma and Resilience.

Her research interest is Black women’s intellectual history, particularly mental health and wellness in memoirs. Dr. Evans is the editor of the Black Women’s Wellness book series at SUNY Press and has authored three books:

• Black Women’s Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace (SUNY, 2021)
• Black Passports: Travel Memoirs as a Tool for Youth Empowerment (SUNY, 2014)
• Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History (UF, 2007)

She is also the lead co-editor of five books:

• Dear  Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation (Wayne State, 2023)
• Black Women and Public Health (2022)
• Black Women and Social Justice Education (SUNY, 2019)
• Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability (SUNY Press, 2017)
• African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education (SUNY, 2009).

Until June 2019, Professor Evans served as Chair of the African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, and History (AWH) Department at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Evans was recognized with the 2017 Aldridge-McMillan Award for Excellence in Research at CAU. In 2013 she led the CAU Du Bois Legacy Project and in 2015, she edited Phylon: Review of Race and Culture, reviving the journal founded by W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University. Her articles have appeared in Western Journal of Black Studies, Peace Studies Journal, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Feminist Teacher, Florida Historical Quarterly, and African American Research Perspectives. In addition to traditional publications, Evans enjoys community-based research projects with organizations like youthSpark (to support anti-sex-trafficking in Georgia) and Black Women’s Mental Health Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. She also curates several websites for various digital humanities projects, including AfricanaMemoirs.net, Black Women’s Studies Booklist web resource bwstbooklist.net.

Before CAU, Dr. Evans served as Director of African American Studies of Women’s Studies at the University of Florida. She was awarded the UF Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2010-11. Evans has conducted research at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in Washington, D.C., and through the University of Florida’s Paris Research Center in Paris, France.

For more on Stephanie Y. Evans, visit her profile at Georgia State University.

2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) Schedule

9:00 a.m.         Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 a.m.         Poster Session 1
10:15 a.m.       Oral Presentation Sessions 1A/1B
11:30 a.m.        Lunch
12:00 p.m.       Poster Session 2
1:00 p.m.         Keynote Address – Dr. Stephanie Evans
2:00 p.m.         Oral Presentation Sessions 2A/2B
3:30 p.m.         Poster Session 3
4:30 p.m.         Refreshments
4:45 p.m.         KAHOOT! Competition
5:00 p.m.         Awards Ceremony
5:20 p.m.         Closing Remarks

***Immediately following the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS), the Institution on Neuroscience Symposium (ION) will begin. ION is a summer-long research program for high school students interested in research. For more information, please visit the ION website.***

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