➜ Wyoming Public Media reported on a new AISES College Chapter at the University of Wyoming. Staff at the university’s Native American Resource Center also want to make sure the state’s community college students can be informed about what AISES has to offer.
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➜ Sequoyah Fellow and former chair of the Board of Directors Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen has won a Fulbright Fellowship and will be spending four months in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Ondrechen is a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University in Boston and will be working on kinases during her fellowship. In April, the NPR program On Point interviewed Dr. Ondrechen on the topic of COVID-19 variants.
➜ Michael Martinez won the High North Young Entrepreneur Award at the High North Dialogue conference in Norway. He won for his start-up, Arctic Biotech Oath, which provides green metals and solutions in circumpolar countries. The conference is attended by professionals, students, government officials, and researchers from multiple countries. Martinez just finished his third year as a chemistry major at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
➜ Among the 2021 members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. In March Dr. Kimmerer was invited to give the Macalester College Engel-Morgan-Jardetzky Distinguished Lecture on Science, Culture, and Ethics. A best-selling author and distinguished professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Dr. Kimmerer is the 2016 recipient of the AISES Ely S. Parker Award.
➜ Dr. Franklin Dollar has won a Tom Angell Fellowship, awarded at the Mentoring for Achievement and Excellence event held by the Office of Inclusive Excellence at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Dollar is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the school.
Sequoyah Fellow Dr. Roger Dube, winner of the 2019 Ely S. Parker Award, was named a J. William Fulbright Scholar for 2021 at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Dube has been developing a program to increase Indigenous student enrollment in the sciences. The program, named Wawatay after the Anishinaabe word for “northern lights,” will fuse traditional Indigenous science approaches with university science instruction to broaden the reach and impact of traditional knowledge.
The AISES Circle of Support Program acknowledges the generous investment of partners whose support is integral to the AISES mission. Circle Partners are organizations that established a multiprogram partnership with AISES in 2020. We wish to thank each of our Circle Partners for their continued efforts to serve AISES student and professional members.