Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session X15: Rethinking Who and Where: Broadening Participation through Physics Outreach
8:00 AM–10:36 AM,
Friday, March 19, 2021
Sponsoring
Units:
FOEP FED
Chair: E. Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota
Abstract: X15.00002 : Rostros Físicos: A Multimedia Project Showcasing the Successes of Hispanic and Latin American Physicists*
8:12 AM–8:24 AM
Live
Presenter:
Daniel Serrano
(Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)
Authors:
Leonela Tasé Sueiro
(School of Media & Public Affairs, George Washington University)
María Alejandra Loza
(Independent video editor)
Emily Riley
(Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park)
Jorge Ramirez
(Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)
Daniel Perry Lathrop
(Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)
Daniel Serrano
(Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park)
Rostros Físicos is an online multimedia project aimed at helping address this by showcasing physicists of Hispanic and Latin American heritage across all stages of academic and career development. A website (rostros.umd.edu) serves as a central hub for the project and a searchable database of featured physicists with descriptions of their career trajectories. A YouTube channel hosts an episodic video series produced from interviews of physicists, covering topics like career pathways, career advice, and the hurdles of being a minority in Physics plus how to overcome them. Social media accounts advertise the website and video series. In this talk, we present the full story of Rostros Físicos: planning stages, audience research results, the video and website production pipeline, lessons learned, and impact assessment.
*These activities are supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF 1404843) and the University of Maryland Department of Physics
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