Arizona State professor to discuss student/faculty recruitment

Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Regents Professor and the Joaquín Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State University, will discuss the recruitment of students and faculty from underrepresented groups at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Atkins Library Halton Reading Room. Lunch will be provided; email RSVPs to advanceuncc@uncc.edu.

Castillo-Chavez also is founding director of the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center and the Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics in the Life and Social Sciences (AMLSS) at ASU.

Nineteen students, including 14 who are members of underrepresented groups, have graduated with an AMLSS Ph.D. Castillo-Chavez received a 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. In 2003, he earned a Presidential Mentorship Award.

During his Oct. 28 talk, Castillo-Chavez will provide information on effective ways of building pools of underrepresented minority graduate and faculty candidates. There will be a discussion of several networks and institutions that have been successful in building pools to increase minority participation in STEM, too.

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and Graduate School are sponsoring this event.