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Mary Atwater will be a guest panelist at the 24th annual McKnight Fellows Meeting.
Mary M. Atwater, a professor in the department of mathematics and science education, will be a panelist at the 24th Annual McKnight Fellows Meeting and 12th Annual Graduate School Conference Oct. 24-26 in Tampa, Fla.
Atwater will participate in the discussion panel titled, “Preparing Science Teachers for Diversity: Challenging the Beliefs that Marginalize Our Children.”
The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to address the shortage of African Americans at the university level. At the Annual Fellows Meetings, the focus is on informing, connecting and training McKnight professors and students.
Atwater was named among 1999’s African-American Phenomenal Women by the African-American Professional Women of the Athens Area and was named to the National Technical Association’s Academy of Top Minority Women in Science and Engineering in 1998 and 1997.
Atwater, who joined the UGA faculty in 1987, was the first African-American female to earn a doctorate in science education at North Carolina State University in 1980. She was the first African-American female to serve as a department head at UGA when she headed mathematics and science education in 2005. She received her M.A. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina and her B.S. chemistry magna cum laude from Methodist College in Fayetteville, N.C.
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