Aaron Streets, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Computational Biology, and Biophysics, shared his journey in STEM and creating programs for students and faculty from underrepresented backgrounds in academia. In addition to his academic role, Aaron is the Director of the Berkeley BioEngineering Scholars Program (BioESP) and the Faculty Advisor for graduate divesity for the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). He is also the co-founder of the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium, which he started to increase the diversity and quality of applicant pools for quantitative biological and biomedical sciences faculty roles.
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