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Chatman
Theresa Chatman
Project Manager, Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) |
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Professional Preparation
- Associate's Degree, Communications, Houston Community College, May 2003
- Bachelor's Degree, Business Communications/Public Relations, University of Houston, Expected, December 2005
Synergistic Activities
Theresa Chatman manages numerous activities at Rice University focused on the recruitment, mentoring, and retention of minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She has also been instrumental in many national partnerships and events designed to support minority students.Through outreach programs that Theresa has helped orchestrate for several organizations and activities, such as the Rice-Houston Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, the Diversity Graduate Program in Science and Engineering, the Rice University Graduate Orientation Program, and others, Rice University has been recognized as having an outstanding percentage of minority Ph.D. graduates in mathematical sciences-- 34%--compared to the national average, which is less than 5%. There are currently 62 minority students enrolled in graduate programs at Rice University.
Theresa has served on several national committees to further the accomplishments of minorities in STEM disciplines, including the Houston Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation and the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
Awards
- Rice University Distinguished Employee Award, 1997
- Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Symposium Appreciation for Outstanding Service Award, 2001
- Rice University Faculty/Staff Mentoring Award, 2003
- Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Symposium Appreciation for Outstanding Service Award, 2003
- Houston Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) Appreciation for Outstanding Service Award, 2004
