Designees
Shobita Parthasarathy and Dr. Molly Kleinman
Position
Director, Science Technology and Public Policy Program; Managing Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Website
Region
Midwest
Educational Offerings, Career Pipeline/Placement
Data Learning for Better Drinking Water in Small Utilities
The project will pilot, revise, and adapt the modules for use in both professional development contexts and classrooms to generate interest in public utility careers and enhance the data skills of existing workforces.
Principal Investigator
Rebecca D Hardin, Associate Professor, Environmental Justice Conservation + Restoration
Educational Offerings; Faculty and Institution Building
Rethinking Computer Science Education: Bringing Public Interest Technology into Undergraduate and Postdoctoral Training
We will rework UM’s undergraduate computer science curriculum to include sustained attention to social, moral, equity, and policy dimensions of data and technology, with help from a postdoctoral fellow who will bridge academic units, receive PIT training, and build supply and demand for PIT faculty.
Principal Investigator
Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Career Pipeline/Placement; Strengthening the Public Interest Tech University Network
Strengthening PIT Career Pathways for Persons of Color: A Knowledge Network and Experiential Learning Approach
This project seeks to strengthen career pathways into PIT for historically underrepresented communities through the expansion of our year one experiential learning course and a partnership with the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) program Junior Summer Institutes (JSIs). The project will also create a PIT-UN Knowledge Network learning platform (PIT-UN KN) to further support the career pathways and career placement of students and create a general PIT network resource to encourage new ideas, foster collaborations, and incentivize resource- and information-sharing among network members.
Principal Investigator
Tayo Fabusuyi, Assistant Research Scientist, Transportation Research Institute
Career Pipeline/Placement
PIT Career Paths and Constraints Faced by Persons of Color
We aim to identify the PIT career paths and constraints faced by persons of color. To accomplish this, we will conduct an analysis of nationwide employment data, and host workshops for PIT social entrepreneurs of color. Students will support this aim via an experiential learning course in the winter.
Principal Investigator
Robert Hampshire, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Research Associate Professor, U-M Transportation Research Institute’s (UMTRI) Human Factors group and Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)