Paper ID #17239Dark Matters: Metaphorical Black Holes that Affect Ethnic Underrepresen-tation in EngineeringDr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Professional Development & Post- doctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in Mary- land), where she is the Co-PI and Founding Director for the National Science Foundation’s PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) for the 12 institutions in the University System of Maryland, and Co-PI Louis
Balti- more County (UMBC). Her research centers on using visualization and data mining (visual analytics) to improve the state of medicine and healthcare. She is also interested in developing interfaces with univer- sal access to assist in the learning of programming languages. In 2007, she received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to complete her doctorate, which permitted her to pursue her interests in biomedical informatics in collaboration with medical professors at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2008, her paper, ”Visualizing Multivariate Time Series Data to Detect Specific Medical Conditions”, was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at AMIA 2008.Dr. Renetta G. Tull
Paper ID #20436Hashtag #ThinkBigDiversity: Social Media Hacking Activities as HybridizedMentoring Mechanisms for Underrepresented Minorities in STEMDr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland). She is also on detail with the University System of Maryland (USM), where she is Spe- cial Assistant to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Director of Pipeline Professional Programs for
culture of higher education in order to achieve academic success. Dr. Smith has received several awards and grants that recognize her research on diversity issues in higher education. Dr. Smith’s publi- cations have been featured in research and practice oriented journals such as African –American Research Perspectives and Equity & Excellence in Education. In addition, she is the author of the book, Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education (Lexington Books, 2013). She can be reached via email at bsmith@stthomas.edu.Dr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018