{"id":595,"date":"2023-02-23T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/vitaminphd\/?page_id=595"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:02:00","slug":"season-9-self-awareness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/vitaminphd\/episodes-2\/season-9-self-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 9: Self Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 9, hosted by T\u00e1chira Pichardo (Molecular & Translational Medicine) and Grace McGowan (American & New England Studies), is the fifth season in a series of seven seasons focused on the <\/span>PhD Core Capacities<\/span><\/a>. In conversation with a diverse range of guests, Grace and T\u00e1chira explore how to build the core skill of self-awareness and how to apply that skill to as diverse aspects of life as communication, financial literacy, project management, and the mind-body connection.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Grace McGowan is currently a PhD candidate at Boston University in the American & New England Studies Program. She took her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from University of Oxford in 2017. She has held the William V Shannon memorial fellowship at Boston University. Her work explores how Black women writers use the classical tradition from\u00a0<\/span>Ancient Greece and Rome in their writing and her paper \u201cI Know I Can\u2019t Change the Future, But I Can<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Change the Past: Toni Morrison, Robin Coste Lewis, and the Classical Tradition\u201d was published in Contemporary Women\u2019s Writing under OUP in 2020. Her essay <\/span>“In ‘Rumors’, Lizzo and Cardi B Pull From the Ancient Greeks, Putting a New Spin on an Old Tradition” was published in both The Conversation and The Boston Globe.<\/span> Her work on Phillis Wheatley was awarded an honorable mention for the Mary Kelley prize under the New England American Studies Association in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"T\u00e1chira is currently a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in Molecular & Translational Program at the Boston University School of Medicine, where she is studying in the Mazzilli Lab within the Section of Computational Biomedicine. Her research focuses on using a murine model of lung squamous cell carcinoma to characterize the premalignant lesions that precede frank carcinoma, as well as defining the immune contribution to the histological progression of those lesions. She is also interested in using this model for preclinical testing of immunotherapeutic agents, with the eventual goal of working in drug development in the pharmaceutical industry upon completion of her doctoral degree. T\u00e1chira is also the president of the Minority & International Scientists Organization (MISO) in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, and is passionate about increasing opportunities for underrepresented minorities and women in STEM.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Season 9, Episode 1: Maria Erb on Identity and Advocacy<\/strong><\/p>\n