2024 EVENT SCHEDULE
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM: Opening Plenary (Bank of America Auditorium)
Welcome Drs. Tiffany Bussey and Triscia Hendrickson
Opening Remarks President David A. Thomas
Introduction of the Speaker
Keynote Address
Mr. Calvin Butts ‘24
Dr. Manu Platt ‘01
10:30 AM – 11:50 AM: Student Presentations (Executive Conference Center)
Poster Presentations
Table Demonstrations
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM: Lunch and Learn Sessions
Pre-registration is required - https://forms.office.com/r/Pn0F29V9RE
AbbVie – Leading Pharmaceutical Company
Department of Navy HBCU/MI Program – STEM Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Emory University Laney Graduate School – Preparing for Graduate School
Holland & Knight – Advocacy, Law, and Public Policy
Ocean X – Ocean Exploration and Conservation
Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurial Center & Center for Black Entrepreneurship –Entering Entrepreneurship
1:00 – 2:15 PM: Entrepreneurial Demonstrations (Blackstone Launchpad Lab and Shirley Plaza}
2:25 PM – 3:40 PM: Oral Presentations (Bank of America Auditorium)
Lightening Talks Performances
3:50 PM – 5:00 PM: Alumni Panel Discussion (Bank of America Auditorium)
Topic: The Role of HBCUs in Innovation
Moderator: Dr. David Wall Rice ‘06
Dr. Desmond Moore ’08 Biochemist, Founder of MooreAG
Mr. Kennard Garrett ’01 Grammy-award winning producer
Dr. Kevin Woods ’99 Gastroenterologist, Founder of Tigershark Ventures
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM: Closing Session (Bank of America Auditorium)
Recognition & Awards Drs. Bussey and Hendrickson
Closing Remarks Provost Kendrick Brown
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SAVE THE DATE: 3RD ANNUAL DREAM MAKERS SUMMIT TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2025
APRIL 16, 2024
9:30am - 5:30pm
INNOVATION CREATIVITY EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP 2nd Annual
RESEARCH
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Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center
W ELCOME
OPENING PLENARY
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Bank of America Auditorium
Tiffany Rogers Bussey, DBA, MBA, MSc, PMP
Executive Director, Morehouse College Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Triscia W. Hendrickson, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Provost for Research & Student Training, Morehouse College
O PENING R EMARKS
David A. Thomas, Ph.D. President, Morehouse College
I NTRODUCTION OF K EYNOTE S PEAKER
Calvin Butts ‘24
K EYNOTE S PEAKER
Dr. Manu Platt '01 Director
Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA), National Institutes of Health
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WELCOME: SUMMIT CO-CHAIR
Triscia W. Hendrickson, Ph.D. Professor and Associate Provost for Research & Student Training, Morehouse
College
Triscia W. Hendrickson earned a BS in Biology from the University of the Virgin Islands and a PhD in Cell Biology from Emory University. After completing her post-doctoral training in the FIRST-IRACDA program at Emory, she joined the Morehouse College faculty, where she has maintained an active research program focused on (1) Elucidating the role of primary cilia in cancer, and (2) Investigating role of HBCUs in STEM training and diversification. Dr. Hendrickson is a servant-leader, as demonstrated by her service to the College on the Faculty Council, the Institutional Effectiveness Council, the 2018 Reaffirmation of Accreditation Leadership team, and other faculty committees such as Faculty Research, Faculty Development, the Curriculum and Education Policy Committee. Her passion for student success is demonstrated in the leadership roles she has undertaken in training and mentoring initiatives such as the MARC U-STAR program, the Morehouse-Johns Hopkins Vivien Thomas Scholars Partnership, and the James King, Jr., Medical Admissions Program. As the Associate Provost for Research & Student Training, she leads strategic initiatives to enhance the institution’s research enterprise while also developing opportunities for student training experiences. She has rendered service to the profession as a member of the Women in Cell Biology Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology and as reviewer for NIH, NSF, HHMI, and the Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation. Dr. Hendrickson is an alumna of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL) program and the HERS Institute.
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WELCOME: SUMMIT CO-CHAIR
Tiffany Rogers Bussey, DBA, MBA, MSc, PMP
Executive Director, Morehouse College Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center
Tiffany Rogers Bussey is the founding Director of the Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center, a global model for providing small business support in the areas of organizational management infrastructure development and process improvement. Dr. Bussey has over thirty years’ experience in various aspects of business management for corporate, small business, educational and non-profit organizations. As Director of the Morehouse College Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, Dr. Bussey manages strategic teams of faculty, staff and consultants to achieve the goals of the Center, which is to assist in the development and growth of entrepreneurs of color through scholarly research, training and consulting services. Dr. Bussey is also an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at Morehouse College. She frequently provides commentary as a small business expert on NPR, Bloomberg News, Black Enterprise and Huffington Post.
Dr. Bussey earned her doctorate in business administration and masters of science degree in strategic management from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, U.K.
She received a masters in business administration from George Washington University in Washington D.C and a baccalaureate degree in economics from The College of Saint Elizabeth in New Jersey. Dr. Bussey is a Certified Project Management Professional, Certified Situational Leadership Facilitator, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified Training Presenter, and a Certified Teacher of Entrepreneurship. Her research interest intersects the areas of leadership behavior and strategic change in small firms.
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OPENING REMARKS
David A. Thomas, Ph.D. President, Morehouse College
David A. Thomas, Ph.D., president of Morehouse College, is internationally recognized for his expertise in organizational management and higher education leadership. A noted academic scholar, award-winning author, and business consultant for 100 of the Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Thomas has also served as dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and on the faculty of HarvardBusiness School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. At Morehouse,his fundraising leadership has resulted in approximately $190 million, a still-growing total higher thanduring any other presidential tenure in the history of the college. Under his strategic direction, Morehouse has extended its reach by launching its first online degree programs and has amplified its positioning as a center of intellectual discourse and social engagement in areas such as global leadership, professional equity, social justice, and innovation. He has written or co-written three books and more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, cases, and teaching notes.
Among other honors, Dr. Thomas is the recipient of Washington Business Journal’s “Minority Business Leader of the Year” award and the National Executive Forum’s Beacon Award and was named one of “Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders” by Atlanta Magazine. Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case, co-written by Dr. Thomas, won the 2020 HBR McKinsey Award as the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. He serves on the boards of DTE Energy, Commonfund, Vanguard, and Yale Corporation. He is also a senior advisor for Grain Management. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior studies and a Master of Philosophy in organizational behavior, both from Yale University, along with a Master of Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences from Yale College.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Manu Platt '01
Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA), National Institutes of Health
Dr. Manu Platt was born in Trenton, NJ but moved around a bit due to his father being in the U.S. Air Force and graduated high school in Dover, Delaware. He received his B.S. in Biology with a minor in Mathematics from Morehouse College where he was Center of Excellence and Dansby Scholar, as well as a NASA Scholar, completing internships at Marshall Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, and Ames Research Center over multiple summers. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech/Emory in biomedical engineering as a David and Lucile Packard Predoctoral Fellow and a NASA/Harriett G. Jenkins Fellow. He was in the second cohort ever accepted into this newly established program and was the first Black graduate of that program in 2006. After postdoctoral training at MIT with a UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral fellowship, he returned as an Assistant Professor to the Georgia Tech/Emory Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering where he worked up to promotion to full Professor. Integrated with his research are mentoring goals of changing the look of the next generation of scientists and engineers with a number of roles as Diversity Director for NSF Centers, and Dr. Platt co-founded and directed Project ENGAGES, a program paying African-American high school students to work as researchers in Georgia Tech labs established in 2013 and still ongoing even after his departure. He was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine in 2015, the Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award and Lecture in 2017, Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the Root 100 in 2019, and AAAS Mentor Award in 2021.
In February 2023, Dr. Manu Platt became the inaugural director of the NIH-wide Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA Center), housed within the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Intramural Research Program. Dr. Platt is also NIBIB associate director for Scientific Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a Tenured, Senior Investigator, and Head of the MATRICES Lab (Mechanics and Tissue Remodeling In Computational & Experimental Systems). His research program focuses on proteolytic mechanisms of disease, translational approaches to reduce strokes in people living with sickle cell disease, and harnessing proteolytic networks and systems biology tools to predict disease progression in patients.
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LUNCH & LEARN SESSIONS
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
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ALUMNI PANEL DISCUSSION
3:50 PM – 5:00 PM
Topic: The Role of HBCUs in Innovation
Moderator: Dr. David Wall Rice ‘06
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CLOSING REMARKS
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM
Kendrick Brown, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President
Kendrick Brown, Ph.D., is the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Morehouse College. He has more than 20 years of experience as a professor and senior administrator, having served students and faculty with distinction at private liberal arts colleges on the West Coast and the Midwest. A published scholar and a sought-after speaker on issues of race, identity, diversity, and inclusion, Dr. Brown earned his doctorate and master’s degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Mount Union College in Ohio. During his tenure in higher education, he has worked to create and implement effective strategic plans while managing $50-million budgets, launching new academic majors, and empowering faculty to become national instructional leaders who innovate and inspire students to excel.
Prior to coming to Morehouse, Dr. Brown served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, an institution with more than 260 faculty members and 5,000 students. During his five years at Redlands, Dr. Brown led a multi-phased strategic planning process for the college that reimagined the institution’s mission and vision and expanded academic programs. He also implemented strategies to improve recruiting and talent development, which resulted in a more diverse workforce.
Prior to his tenure at Redlands, Dr. Brown served as a senior administrator at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he worked as acting provost and chief academic officer as well as associate dean of the faculty.
Dr. Brown shares a commitment to the Morehouse mission to develop men with disciplined minds who will lead lives of leadership and service. Among his priorities are the expansion of virtual education and study abroad opportunities, the creation of innovative programs for students studying on campus, and development of the esteemed Morehouse faculty.
Brown has written a number of published scholarly articles which have appeared in Current Psychology, The Journal of Applied Social Psychology, and The Journal of Black Psychology. He also has appeared as a panelist at the 2020 Naval Academy Leadership Conference, the 73rd and 74th annual meetings of the American Conference on Academic Deans, and the 31st International Congress of Psychology in Japan, and a host of other conferences.
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