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Angela Byars-Winston
Image of Byars-Winston at the White House
Alma materSan Diego State University
Arizona State University
University of Maryland, College Park
AwardsACTS Clinical and Translational Research Distinguished Educator Award: Mentorship Innovation (2022)

University of Wisconsin–Madison Outstanding Woman of Color Award (2014)

Named United States' Champions of Change (2011)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Michelle Byars-Winston is a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was the first African American to achieve the rank of tenured Full Professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies the impact of culture on career development, in particular for women and minorities in STEM. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and was one of Barack Obama's Champions of Change.

Early life and education

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Byars-Winston earned her bachelor's (1991) and master's (1992) degree at San Diego State University.[1][2][3] She completed a predoctoral clinical fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park. She attended graduate school at Arizona State University, specialising in counseling psychology.[4] Her 1996 dissertation placed her on the national policy-making stage.[5] She was one of only two black PhD students in the School of Education at Arizona State University in the fall of 1992.[6]

Career

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Byars-Winston joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a KL2 scholar in 1997.[6][7] She joined the School of Medicine in 2011 and became interested in whether people bring their identity to the foreground of their college experience.[8] Byars-Winston and her colleagues, Christine Pfund and Janet Branchaw, were awarded a $1.4 million R01 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to investigate how mentors define diversity and developing ways to measure the impact of mentored research experiences on career outcomes.[6] Byars-Winston is also part of a national team which was awarded $19 million from the NIH to organize a National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN).[6][9][10][11] She has investigated how to measure mentoring interventions.[12] She has also conducted a longitudinal study that monitored how the relationships between undergraduate mentees and their mentors in the biological sciences impact their academic outcomes.[13]

One of the approaches to meet the skills gap in the United States is to engage African Americans, Latino/as, South East Asians, and Native Americans ('ALANA') with science and engineering subjects.[14] Byars-Winston used social cognitive career theory to examine how ethnicity influenced academic self-efficacy and outcomes.[14] She has identified several barriers to the progression of ALANA investigators, including the marginalization of interests, apartheid within academia and microaggressions.[15] Byars-Winston demonstrated that race and ethnicity impact career expectations more than aspirations.[16] She launched the Training and Education to Advance Minority Scholars in Science program (TEAM-Science) and Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) programs, which look to embed self-reflective dialogue about race and ethnicity in science.[17][18] She is working with the National Academy to examine the effectiveness of programs that look engage individuals marginalized in STEM fields.[19][20][21]

Barack Obama named Byars-Winston as one of the United States' Champions of Change in 2011.[1][22] The Presidency of Barack Obama established a Educate to Innovate campaign, which looked to improve the engagement of young people with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).[23] She is a member of the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity STEM Equity Pipeline National Advisory Board and Wisconsin Career Development Association Executive Committee.[24][25]

She won the University of Wisconsin–Madison Outstanding Woman of Color Award in 2014.[26] In 2016 Byars-Winston was a visiting professor at Purdue University, where she ran a series of mentoring workshops.[27] She published the Promising Practices for Strengthening the Regional STEM Workforce Development Ecosystem.[28] In 2017 Byars-Winston became the first African American to achieve the rank of tenured Full Professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[8] She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Board of Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW).[29][4] In 2022, Byars-Winston won the ACTS (Association for Clinical and Translational Science) Clinical and Translational Research Distinguished Educator Award for Mentorship Innovation to acknowledge her dedication to mentoring researchers and improving the quality and inclusivity of clinical translational research.[30]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Angela Byars-Winston". whitehouse.gov. 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  2. ^ "NewsCenter | SDSU | White House Honors Alumna". newscenter.sdsu.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  3. ^ "The Black in Crimson and Black: A History and Profiles of African Americans at SDSU" (PDF). San Diego State University. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  4. ^ a b "Angela Byars-Winston". sites.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  5. ^ "The Capital City Hues/09/18/17/Dr. Angela Byars-Winston2". www.capitalcityhues.com. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  6. ^ a b c d Denton, Brian. "Q&A: Angela Byars-Winston works to grow and diversify the scientific workforce". NRMNet. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  7. ^ "Angela Byars-Winston, PhD". STEM Diversity Network. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  8. ^ a b Gaines, Jordan (6 November 2017). ""I Have Skin in the Game:" UW's First Black Woman Professor of Medicine Works to Diversify Life Sciences". Madison365. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  9. ^ Denton, Brian. "Mentor Training Core". NRMNet. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  10. ^ Sorkness, Christine A.; Pfund, Christine; Ofili, Elizabeth O.; Okuyemi, Kolawole S.; Vishwanatha, Jamboor K.; Zavala, Maria Elena; Pesavento, Theresa; Fernandez, Mary; Tissera, Anthony (2017-12-04). "A new approach to mentoring for research careers: the National Research Mentoring Network". BMC Proceedings. 11 (12): 22. doi:10.1186/s12919-017-0083-8. ISSN 1753-6561. PMC 5773914. PMID 29375663.
  11. ^ Denton, Brian. "Q&A: Angela Byars-Winston works to grow and diversify the scientific workforce – NRMN". Retrieved 2022-12-04.
  12. ^ Byars-Winston, Angela. "What Matters in Mentoring? Testing and Measuring a Mentor Training Intervention".
  13. ^ Byars-Winston, Angela M.; Branchaw, Janet; Pfund, Christine; Leverett, Patrice; Newton, Joseph (2015). "Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Researchers' Academic Outcomes and Perceptions of Their Research Mentoring Relationships". International Journal of Science Education. 37 (15): 2533–2554. Bibcode:2015IJSEd..37.2533B. doi:10.1080/09500693.2015.1085133. ISSN 0950-0693. PMC 4822509. PMID 27065568.
  14. ^ a b Byars-Winston, Angela; Estrada, Yannine; Howard, Christina; Davis, Dalelia; Zalapa, Juan (April 2010). "Influence of Social Cognitive and Ethnic Variables on Academic Goals of Underrepresented Students in Science and Engineering: A Multiple-Groups Analysis". Journal of Counseling Psychology. 57 (2): 205–218. doi:10.1037/a0018608. ISSN 0022-0167. PMC 2872245. PMID 20495610.
  15. ^ "Race Matters: Building the 21st Century Clinician, Educator and Scientist" (PDF).
  16. ^ "Nadya Fouad". School of Education | UW-Milwaukee. Archived from the original on 2023-02-22. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  17. ^ Byars-Winston, Angela; Gutierrez, Belinda; Topp, Sharon; Carnes, Molly (December 2011). "Integrating Theory and Practice to Increase Scientific Workforce Diversity: A Framework for Career Development in Graduate Research Training". CBE: Life Sciences Education. 10 (4): 357–367. doi:10.1187/cbe.10-12-0145. ISSN 1931-7913. PMC 3228654. PMID 22135370.
  18. ^ Byars-Winston, Angela; Womack, Veronica Y.; Butz, Amanda R.; McGee, Richard; Quinn, Sandra C.; Utzerath, Emily; Saetermoe, Carrie L.; Thomas, Stephen B. (2018). "Pilot study of an intervention to increase cultural awareness in research mentoring: Implications for diversifying the scientific workforce". Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2 (2): 86–94. doi:10.1017/cts.2018.25. ISSN 2059-8661. PMC 6191051. PMID 30338131.
  19. ^ "Angela Byars-Winston leads national consensus study on science of STEMM mentoring". UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  20. ^ Handelsman, Jo; Hunter, Anne-Barrie; Byars-Winston, Angela; Frederick, Jennifer; Graham, Mark J. (2013-09-27). "Increasing Persistence of College Students in STEM". Science. 341 (6153): 1455–1456. Bibcode:2013Sci...341.1455G. doi:10.1126/science.1240487. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 10167736. PMID 24072909. S2CID 31899619.
  21. ^ "Project: The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM". www8.nationalacademies.org. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  22. ^ Authority, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. "University of Wisconsin Researcher Honored as Champion of Change at White House". UW Health. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  23. ^ "Addressing the Cultural Context of STEM Pursuits". whitehouse.gov. 2011-12-19. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  24. ^ "Angela Byars-Winston :: UW–Madison Experts". experts.news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  25. ^ "National Advisory Board | National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity". Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  26. ^ "Call for Nominations: 2016 Outstanding Women of Color Awards". Creating Community. 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  27. ^ "Mentoring@Purdue to hold workshops this week - Purdue University". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  28. ^ Promising Practices for Strengthening the Regional STEM Workforce Development Ecosystem. Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. doi:10.17226/21894. ISBN 978-0-309-39111-5.
  29. ^ "Dr. Angela Byars-Winston Selected to Serve on National Academy of Sciences Board of Higher Education and Workforce". University Of Wisconsin - Department of Medicine. 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  30. ^ "2022 ACTS Awardees Include Four UW Investigators". ICTR. 2022-04-18. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
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