The programs I started at Roxbury Community College in collaboration with Boston's top universities were centered around the empowerment of minority students to pursue solutions to problems, such as health disparity that directly impacted the Black community. Read about the strategy behind what came to be known as the MATRIX project, which has since been integrated into the Center for Materials Science and Engineering's Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at MIT.
Ray Turner and Paula Robinson:NSF Workshop on Improving Undergraduate Education in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences through the Use of Technology (1999)“What are new paradigms for undergraduate research?” pages 41-42. We presented one of the first models for virtual learning in STEM research that includes underrepresented minorities directly in the teaching, learning, and research of traditional research institutions.Currently, I am promoting a greater understanding of the the racial divide in medical practice and biomedical research with Dr. Michael Byrd and Dr. Linda Clayton at the Harvard University affiliated Center for the Optimization of Health and Health Disparity.
PAPERS I CO-AUTHORED WITH DRS. BYRD AND CLAYTON BELOW
1. Byrd, WM, Clayton, LA, and Turner, RE.The Post Civil War and Early 20th Century Medical Profession: Racial Discrimmination, Peer review, and "Civil Rights Era" in the United States Health and Health Care J. National Medical Association 2011 (in press) 2. Byrd, WM, Clayton, LA, and Turner, RE.The history-based caste status of African American and other disadvantaged minority physicians as a predisposing factor to discriminatory peer review. J. National Medical Association 2011 (in press)
