The University of Arizona/Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (UA/SIGP) scholarship program has partnered with the Indigenous Food, Energy, and Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS) program since Fall 2019 to present the Native Voices in STEM speaker series and the Sloan Alumni Lunch Series. View recorded presentations at the Indige-FEWSS Video Library at: Indige-FEWSS Native Voices in STEM | Indigenous Resilience Center (IRes) (arizona.edu).
November 22, 2019
Perry H. Charley (Navajo), Dine College
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Workshops
November 15, 2019
Marisa Elena Duarte (Pascua Yaqui), Ph.D.
Extending an Indigenous Internet: Planning for Place-Based Digital Literacies and the Spectrum of Connectivity
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Justice Social Inquiry at the School of Social Transformation
November 7, 2019
Carrie Joseph (Hopi), Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, UA Center for Indigenous and Environmental Health Research
October 22, 2019
Otakuye Conroy-Ben (Oglala Lakota), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Build Environment
September 3, 2019
Len Necefer (Navajo), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UA American Indian Studies and
Udall Center for Public Policy
2018-2019 Acadmic Year Speakers
September 27, 2018
Sweeney Windchief (Fort Peck Assiniboine Tribe), Ph.D. & Jeremy Garcia (Hopi), Ph.D.
Mentoring Native Students Module Presentation
2017 - 2018 AY Campus & Community Guest Speakers
February 22, 2017
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), Ph.D.
Ecologist & Author of "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wiscom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants"
November 30, 2016
Keith James (Onondaga), Ph.D.
Converging Indigenous Community Capacity Building with STEM Education, Scholarship, & Practice
Director of Tribal Initiatives in the Government & Community Relations
University of Arizona
http://universitysecretary.arizona.edu/tribal-relations
November 2, 2016
Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan (Maori), Ph.D.
There is a place for TEK in Engineering
Senior Lecturer
University of Auckland, New Zealand
https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/k-morgan
February 15, 2016
Margaret Hiza Redsteer (Crow), Ph.D.
Climate Change Investigations on the Navajo Nation, Northeastern Arizona
Research Scientist, USGS Flastaff Science Center
http://www.usgs.gov/science/author.php?author=Redsteer%2C+Margaret+Hiza
February 8, 2016
Lupita Montoya, Ph.D.
Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Communities: Chile and the Navajo Nation as Case Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
The University of Colorado, Boulder
http://www.colorado.edu/even/faculty/lupita-montoya
November 20, 2014
Joseph Brewer (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Oglala Lakota), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
The University of Kansas
http://esp.ku.edu/joseph-brewer-ii
March 15, 2013
Jani Ingram (Navajo), Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Northern Arizona University
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/jci5/
CANCELLED
December 4, 2012
Karletta Chief (Navajo), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Assistant Specialist
Soil, Water and Environmental Science
University of Arizona
http://ag.arizona.edu/swes/people/cv/chief.htm
March 6, 2012
Jennie Joe (Navajo), Ph.D.
Retired-Professor, Family and Community Medicine
http://azcc.arizona.edu/profile/jennie-joe-0
February 27, 2012
Sweeney Windchief (Wadopana, Wotijaga, Oyade), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Adult and Higher Education
Montana State University
http://www.montana.edu/education/faculty/windchiefContact.html
February 15, 2012
Tim McCoy (Miami), Ph.D.
Department Chair; Geologist
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
http://mineralsciences.si.edu/staff/pages/mccoy.htm
September 28, 2011
Ron Trosper (Salish, Kootenai), Ph.D.
Director/Head
American Indian Studies Program
The University of Arizona
http://www.ais.arizona.edu/people/ronald-l-trosper
March 3, 2011
Clifford Poodry (Seneca), Ph.D.
Director
Division of Minority Opportunities in Research
National Institute of Health (NIH)
February 17, 2011
David Wilson (Navajo), Ph.D.
Director of Native American Initiatives
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
http://sacnas.org
February 18, 2010
K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek), Ph.D.
Professor
Justice and Social inquiry, and Distinguished Scholar in Indigenous Education, Center for Indian Education
Arizona State University
https://sst.clas.asu.edu/Tsianina-Lomawaima
April 7, 2009
Special Guest in attendance at UA/Sloan Colloquium
Kenneth Ridgway, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Department Head
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/ridgway.html
February 18, 2009
Jeffrey Silvertooth, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
The University of Arizona Department of Plant Sciences
http://ag.arizona.edu/swes/people/cv/silvertooth.htm
November 18, 2008
Stan Atcitty (Navajo), Ph.D.
Electrical Engineer
Sandia National Laboratories
http://www.sandia.gov/
March 25, 2008
Maria Teresa Velez, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
The University of Arizona Graduate College
SAPAI Grant Presentation
November 13, 2007
Jani Ingram (Navajo), Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Northern Arizona University
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/jci5/
February 20, 2007
Rene Corrales (Opata & Cherokee), Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The University of Arizona
www.chem.arizona.edu/faculty/profile.php?fid_call=corr
February 9, 2006
Robert K. Whitman (Navajo), Ph.D.
Professor of Engineering
Denver University
web.mit.edu/provost/sef-directory/profiles/e1000195.html
October 17, 2006
Chris Cornelius (Oneida), Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Department
University of Connecticut
February 10, 2005
http://www.energy.uconn.edu/corneliusprofile.php
Clifford Poodry (Seneca), Ph.D.
National Institute of Health
Division of Minority Opportunities in Research
January 20, 2005
Gilbert John (Navajo), Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Engineering
Oklahoma State University
http://microbiology.okstate.edu/faculty/ghjohn/