Dean's Lecture Series - William F. Tate, Louisiana State University
When |
Sep 28, 2022
from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM |
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Where | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center |
Contact Name | College of Education's Deans Office |
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College of Education Dean's Lecture Series on Education and Society
Join Dean Kimberly Griffin M.A. ’01 for an engaging conversation with William F. Tate IV Ph.D. ’91, president of Louisiana State University, member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and National Academy of Education, and human development educator.
Tate will speak on the topic “From Prenatal to the Block: Reimagining the Geography of Opportunity.”
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.
Event Agenda
4 p.m. Networking Reception, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Lobby
5 p.m. Dean’s Lecture Series, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
About William F. Tate IV Ph.D. ’91
William F. Tate IV Ph.D. ’91 serves as president of Louisiana State University. He holds faculty appointments in sociology (primary), psychiatry and behavioral medicine (clinical), epidemiology (secondary), and population and public health (secondary) at the Baton Rouge campus, LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, respectively. He has held endowed professorships at Texas Christian University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of South Carolina.
Tate is the recipient of numerous research recognitions including elections to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Education, and Fellow status in the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He was named a top ten sociologist by the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Report and is a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow, and was awarded an Anna Julia Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in public and social policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education with a cognate in human development from the University of Maryland, a Medical Physics Experts (MPE) degree in psychiatric epidemiology from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and a B.S. in economics from Northern Illinois University.