Effective Community Partnership's for Women in STEM

Carrie-Ann Miller, LCSW, is Director of the Women in Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2200. Email: Carrie-Ann.Miller@stonybrook.edu. Phone: 631-632-9648. She has a B.A. (1978), SUNY at Stony Brook, in interdisciplinary social science with minor in women studies, and a M.S.W. (1982), SUNY at Stony Brook, School of Social Welfare, in integrated practice. From 2004present, she is Director of the Women and Science and Engineering Program, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook. From 2001-2005, she was Faculty Director of the Community Service Learning, Living Learning Major, SUNY at Stony Brook. From 1997-Present, she is Adjunct Professor, School of Social Welfare, SUNY at Stony Brook . From 1997-2004, she was Executive Director of Suffolk Psychiatric Service, Clinical Instructor SUNY at Stony Brook. She was Co-PI for several years with Paul Siegel, on TechPREP and STEM Tech. TechPREP is a program that provides 90 hours of education in the areas of computer science, mathematics, and physics, and engineering to middle school girls from under-served school districts. It also provides college mentors for each student. STEM Tech is a collaborative program that engages community and industry partners and WISE student mentors in developing STEM Tech Clubs. The clubs will service girls from underserved school districts. Each club will use service-learning to exam and come up with a design for an environmental issue. The designs will be built using the engineering design model and presented at a capstone event. She served on the Connect To Tech Advisory Board as a member on this network of school personnel, industry leaders, and community members, whose goal is to further the education of students on Long Island in STEM areas. She has been a Long Island Regional Service Learning Network, Advisory Board member. Members provide curriculum and technical assistance to school districts that are interested in developing a service learning pedagogy. Her focus has been on science and engineering programs. She has been a member of the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Women in Science group for the past four years. She partnered on the Forward to Professorship grant. This will provide workshops to WISE students and post graduates on how to negotiate the post graduate years. The program will also provide mentoring for young women. She developed and implemented the Macro Social Work class for the master’s degree program at Stony Brook University. Collaborators include David Ferguson (Stony Brook University, Department of Technology and Society), TechPREP; Judy Murrah, Motorola Foundation and Connect To Tech; Paul Seigel (SUNY at Stony Brook), TechPREP proposals 2008, 2009, and 2010; Simmerjeet Gill (Brookhaven National Laboratory BWIS); and Bonita London-Thompson (SUNY at Stony Brook-Psychology Program), ”Advancing Women in Science: Building Engagement through Academic Transitions.”