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Published in Creating Tomorrow – Oct 15, 2016 – Stacie Gregory was always a good student. Math and science came easy to the Indianapolis, Ind., native who went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics from Spelman College and a master’s in material science and engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

She even kept up with a strenuous workload as a PhD student at North Carolina State University in the late 1990s. But despite meeting academic goals, Gregory felt a growing burden that held her back and ultimately led her to drop out of the program. What happened? She asked herself in the years that followed.

Publisher

Utah State University

Publication Date

10-15-2016

City

Logan, UT

Keywords

Stereotype threat, Engineering Eduction Alumna, Stacie Gregory, stereotype, race, ethnicity, African American

Disciplines

Engineering | Engineering Education

I'm Not What You Think I Am | College of Engineering

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