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ONLINE: AAAS 2021 Annual Conference

Featured Speaker: Elaine Howard Ecklund 
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Starts: Feb 08, 2021 — 10:45AM EST

Ends: Feb 11, 2021 — 4:30PM EST

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BioLogos Voices speaker Se Kim and Advisor Elaine Howard Ecklund will be speaking at the AAAS 2021 Annual Meeting.

Elaine Howard Ecklund will present “Religion as a Missing Dimension in Gender and Race Diversity in Science” on Monday, February 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM. “We know from past research that women and minorities, particularly Black and Hispanic communities, are vastly underrepresented in science and overrepresented in religious communities. We also know that there is a commonly perceived conflict between religion and science. This anticipated hostility towards religion has the potential to isolate and discourage religious individuals from entering science. This presentation will explore the role religion can play in increasing diversity in science.”

This event is hosted by AAAS.

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Featured Speaker

Elaine Howard Ecklund

Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Rice University, as well as founding director of the Religion and Public Life Program. Ecklund is a sociologist of religion, immigration, and science who examines how individuals bring changes to religious and scientific institutions. She is the author of four books with Oxford University Press, one book with New York University Press, and numerous research articles and op-eds. Her most recent book is Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2019) with coauthors David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Steven W. Lewis, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Di Di. Her forthcoming book, Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values That Move Us Beyond Fear, will be published with Brazos Press, a division of Baker Books, in May 2020.  She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Her research has been cited thousands of times times by local, national, and international media. In 2013, she received Rice University’s Charles O. Duncan Award for Most Outstanding Academic Achievement and Teaching, and in 2018 she gave the Gifford Lecture in Scotland.