Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, April 6, 2026
Jeanne Garbarino, Ph.D.
Executive Director, RockEDU Science Outreach, The Rockefeller University
What It Takes to Persist in STEM: Over a Decade of Evidence from RockEDU
Recommended Readings:
Graham, Mark J., et al. “Increasing persistence of college students in STEM.” Science 341.6153 (2013): 1455-1456.
Feder, Michael, and Shirley Malcom, eds. “Barriers and opportunities for 2-year and 4-year STEM degrees: Systemic change to support students’ diverse pathways.” (2016).
Estrada, Mica, Paul R. Hernandez, and P. Wesley Schultz. “A longitudinal study of how quality mentorship and research experience integrate underrepresented minorities into STEM careers.” CBE—Life Sciences Education 17.1 (2018): ar9.
Carlone, Heidi B., and Angela Johnson. “Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching: The Official Journal of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 44.8 (2007): 1187-1218.
Darnon, Céline, et al. “The interplay of mastery and performance goals in social comparison: A multiple-goal perspective.” Journal of Educational Psychology 102.1 (2010): 212.
Engle, Jennifer, and Vincent Tinto. “Moving beyond access: College success for low-income, first-generation students.” Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education (2008).
Yosso*, Tara J. “Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth.” Race ethnicity and education 8.1 (2005): 69-91.
Freeman, Scott, et al. “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.” Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 111.23 (2014): 8410-8415.
Theobald, Elli J., et al. “Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.12 (2020): 6476-6483.
Johnson, David W., Roger T. Johnson, and Karl A. Smith. “Cooperative learning: Improving university instruction by basing practice on validated theory.” Journal on excellence in college teaching 25.3&4 (2014).
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The science of effective mentorship in STEMM. Eds. Angela Byars-Winston, and Maria Lund Dahlberg. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2019.
Brown, Adrienne Maree. Emergent strategy: shaping change, changing worlds. AK Press (2017).
