Advisory Board

  • Partha Chowdhury
    Professor, Head of the Graduate School
    Physics and Applied Physics
  • Karen  Devereaux Melillo, Ph.D., A-GNP-C, FAANP, FGSA
    Professor Emerita
    Susan and Alan Solomont School of Nursing

    Gerontological Nursing; Geropsychiatric and Mental Health Nursing; Health Promotion of Older Adults; Social Policy and Long-Term Care; Utilization of Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care and Institutional Long-term Care Settings; Age Inclusivity in Higher Education; Intergenerational Programs; Age-Friendly Environments; Engaging Retired and Emeriti Professors

  • Sue Kim
    Dean of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (FAHSS)
    College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

    Contemporary literature, literary theory, Asian American studies, narrative theory, gender, class

  • Marlowe Miller
    Professor
    English, Climate Change Initiative

    British and American modernist literature, composition and rhetoric, and gender studies.

  • Keith Mitchell, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    English

    African American and African Diasporic Literatures, American Literature, Ethnic American Literature, and Modern and Contemporary American Drama

  • Katherine Tucker, Ph.D.
    Emerita and Distinguished University Professor; Director Emeritus and Founder of the Center for Population Health (CPH)
    Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences, Health Assessment Laboratory (HAL), Center for Population Health (CPH)

    Nutritional Epidemiology, Dietary Assessment

  • Katharine Webster, M.J.
    Senior Writer, ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity Advisory Board
    Brand, Communications and Creative Strategy (BCCS), ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity

    Reporting, writing and editing

  • Holly Yanco, Ph.D.
    Chair, Professor, Distinguished University Professor, NERVE Center Director
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences, Robotics

    Robotics, Assistive Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Advisory Board - External Members

Masinori Aikawa
, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Gordon
, Dean for the School of Health Professions and Studies, University of Michigan-Flint
Yael Levitte.
, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Cornell University.
Alisa Lincoln
, Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research (formerly the IUHR), Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Sue Rosser
, Provost Emerita, Professor Emerita, Researcher and Consultant on Gender and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison