**Welcome Address Presenters**: [Anthony DePass](https://underline.io/speakers/58204-anthony-l.-depass)
 [Nicquet Blake](https://underline.io/speakers/58203-nicquet-blake)
 [Shanta Outlaw](https://underline.io/speakers/58202-shanta-outlaw)
 
 **Plenary Presenter**:[Tonikiaa Orange](https://underline.io/speakers/118215-tonikiaa-orange): The Need for Culturally Responsive Methods in Higher Education

Welcome and Plenary Session

**Welcome Address Presenter**: [Nicquet Blake](https://underline.io/speakers/58203-nicquet-blake)
 
 **Plenary Presenter**:[Christine Wood](https://underline.io/speakers/56823-christine-wood): A Counter-Narrative to Generalized Decline in Academic Research Career Interest

**Speaker:** Peter Bahr
 Investigating the Viability of Transfer Pathways to STEM Degrees: Do Community Colleges Prepare Students for Success in University STEM Courses?
 
 **Speaker:** Angela Ebreo
 Predictors of Student Transitional Success in a STEM Pipeline Program: Lessons Learned from Michigan LSAMP
 
 **Speaker:** Kolby Gadd
 Predictors of Student Success in a STEM Pipeline Program: Lessons Learned from Michigan LSAMP

Symposia 1: Predictors of Student Transitional Success in a STEM Pipeline Program

**Speaker:** Lilibeth A. Flores
 Effect of Team Diversity on Creativity of Bioinspired Design Inventions
 
 **Speaker:** Dina Ghazzawi
 Long-term Impacts of STEM Enrichment Programs on Under-represented Minority Students

Symposia 2: Impacting Diversity through STEM Enrichment Opportunitie

**Speaker:** Michelle Naffziger-Hirsch
 Persisting Despite COVID-19 Disruptions: Persistence of Low-income, Academically Talented LatinX and Female STEM Community College Students Receiving Financial Support and Unified, Holistic, Supportive Services
 
 **Speaker:** Navneet Goyal
 Students Grade Evaluation, Survey Feedback, and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study of Virtual vs. In-Person Offering of Freshman-Level General Chemistry II Course in Summer at Xavier University of Louisiana

Symposia 3: Pandemic Persistance: Pivoting During Covid-19

**Speaker:** Janice Fournillier
 Advancing Careers of Upper Level Students in the Life Sciences: The Case of a Minority Serving Institution
 
 **Speaker:** Yoel Rodriguez
 Increasing HSI Community College Engineering Students Success: Non-Cognitive Outcome Relationships with Financial Support and Mentoring

Symposia 4: Undergraduate Strategies for STEM Career Advancement 

**Speaker:** Lissette Delgado-Cruzata
 Supporting STEM students through remote interdisciplinary collaboration in undergraduate research
 
 **Speaker:** Gregory Carey
 STAR-PREP: AN INNOVATIVE HOLISTIC AND RESEARCH-BASED IMMERSION PROGRAM TO INCREASE UNDER-REPRESENTED MINORITY REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Symposia 5: Holistic Undergrauate Research Experiences 

**Speaker:** Candice Etson
 Using Three-Using Three-Dimensional Simulations to Support Spatial Thinking About Electric Fields
 
 **Speaker:** Idris Stovall
 Partnership Advancing Equity in STEM Through a Virtual STEM Platform & Wrap-Around Services Model

Symposia 6: Using Technology to Bridge the Gap

**Speaker:** Hwa Young Lee
 Teachable Mentor Strategies that Increase Quality of Communication and Mentees' Comfort Level: Preliminary Results from the Scientific Communication Advances Research Excellence Mentor-Training Program.
 
 **Speaker:** Louis Trzepacz
 Creating Mutually Beneficial Communities of Care: A review of mentor and mentee positive academic behavior growth and effects on STEM persistence.

Symposia 7: Lessons in Mentorship

**Speaker:** W. Marcus Lambert
 Factors that affect postdoctoral trainee persistence in academia
 
 **Speaker:** Shiva Mehravaran
 Science Self-Efficacy, Academic Self-Concept, and Their Associated Factors in Freshmen at a Historically Black University

Symposia 8: Methodologies for Studying STEM Participation and Persistance

The annual UI conference has grown from a meeting to a community of more than 6,000 researchers, program officers, evaluators, program directors, training faculty, and others within STEM, and now operates with a mission to mutually inform scholarship and practice, develop and enhance the community interested in educational interventions, and provide professional development for all STEM persons. UI held its first Virtual conference in December of 2020 in response to Covid-19 restrictions that forced the cancellation of the original March 2020 in person meeting. Born out of necessity, the virtual conference introduced a format that provided pre conference availability of symposia, Deeper Dives and Poster presentations. The 13th Annual Understanding Interventions Conference will continue with that design and we foresee future conferences adopting aspects of that format in reaching a virtual audience as well as those who attend the conferences in-person.

Attendees will experience plenaries, workshops, symposia, and poster presentations on hypothesis-based research on interventions and initiatives that broaden participation in STEM careers. The conference will continue to facilitate the dialogue among education, behavioral, and social science researchers, evaluators, and faculty in STEM fields who participate in intervention programs. Graduate students in these fields are strongly encouraged to attend. Workshops, sessions, and posters will communicate effective strategies from successful STEM intervention programs, present results from empirical research studies, and synthesize the translation of research findings into practice on STEM learning, undergraduate research, graduate education, and student retention.

The cost to attend the conference is $150. There are special rates for post-doctoral fellows and graduate students, as well as conference grants that can be provided for those with need. Registration for the conference is open, with additional information to come.

13th Conference on Understanding Interventions 2021

The annual UI conference has grown from a meeting to a community of more than 6,000 researchers, program officers, evaluators, program directors, training faculty, and others within STEM, and now operates with a mission to mutually inform scholarship and practice, develop and enhance the community interested in educational interventions, and provide professional development for all STEM persons. 

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