Cancer researcher lectures at Women in STEM workshop
Cancer researcher Jill Bargonetti-Chavarria gives the keynote address at the annual Edward W. Powers Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Career Workshop and Lecture Series at Youngstown State University.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is noon Friday, April 13, in Room 3022 in Ward Beecher Hall on campus.
The Career Workshop, which features panel discussions and hands-on activities, is 9 a.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on campus. The workshop is designed to expose young women in grades 6 through 12 to career opportunities in STEM. Parents can receive college planning and financial aid information and take campus tours while their daughters participate in the workshop. Registration must be submitted by April 11. The workshop and lunch are FREE. Register at www.ysu.edu/WIS. For more information, contact Diana Fagan, director of the workshop and professor of Biological Sciences, at 330-941-1554 or dlfagan@ysu.edu.
Bargonetti is a professor of Biological Sciences at Hunter College Belfer Research Building, the Graduate Center City University of New York and the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College. She earned a bachelor’s degree at the State University of New York College at Purchase, a master’s degree and PhD at New York University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York. She has been awarded many honors including: Harvard University Recognition for Jocelyn Spragg Invited Lecture: “Celebrating Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences”, an American Association for Cancer Research Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Award, Outstanding Woman Scientist Award from the Association for Women in Science, New York Voice Award: in recognition of individuals who have made significant improvements to the quality of life in New York City. Her research has been supported by many grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Evelyn H. Lauder: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. She has published nearly 50 scholarly peer reviewed publications on the biology and treatment of breast cancer using precision medicine. She has also used innovative teaching techniques, such as dance, to help students understand genetics.