DSU’s Dr. Tripathi Selected As Gender Summit Delegate

Dr. Renu Tripathi, DSU associate professor of Physics and Engineering, has been selected to be a delegate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  at the Gender Summit 8 North America 2016 conference on April 28-29 in Mexico City.

The Gender Summit 8 is a North American conference that will be focused on new methods, studies and tools that can help understand and analyze the gender dynamic and dimensions as components and as research variables of collective, individual and institutional conditions determining behavior.

The summit will explore topics such as equity in assessment of scientific merit, the research variable of human diversity, quantifying the socio-economic impact of gender in equality in science, policies for systemic and lasting change and the policy makers that will make them happen, as well as other areas.

Dr. Tripathi is a scientist with DSU’s Optical Science Center for Applied Research, where she is currently leading a research group that is developing a new generation of imaging laser radar systems, optical coherence tomography, and nanoparticle-based super-resolution imaging.

She has been selected as an AAAS delegate for the summit along with Dr. Lilliam Casillas-Martinez of the University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Melody Schieffino of San Diego State University, and Dr. Jamison Kovach of the University of Houston.