MSI PI Erin Sheets (professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMD; associate dean, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, UMD) has been named a fellow of the IAspire Leadership Academy, a leadership program that helps STEM faculty from underrepresented groups attain leadership roles at colleges and universities. This group is working to develop more inclusive institutional cultures in STEM fields at post-secondary institutions. A story about this honor with a list of all the new fellows appears on the University of Minnesota Duluth website: SCSE Associate Dean Erin Sheets Joins the IAspire Organization.
Professor Sheets uses MSI resources for studies into how critical molecular events in essential membrane-involved processes control biological function.