Fall 2021 CHEMSEM 5: Science and Policymaking
The faculty, students and staff of the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view the Honorable Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's Zoom lecture today, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Science and Policymaking. Today's lecture is jointly hosted with the Andrews University School of Nursing.
This is the fifth installment of the Dwain L. Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2021–2022 fall and spring seminar program. Everyone is invited to view this Zoom-based lecture at https://andrews.zoom.us/s/92307867479.
Teachers are encouraged to announce this lecture in their classes and/or forward this email to their classes. Please share and encourage your colleagues, friends and others to tune in online. This lecture is free and open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in our community and public.
The Dwain L. Ford Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Andrews University Office of Research & Creative Scholarship, the Chemistry Honors Society, and the Andrews University Community Engagement Council.
Seminar Zoom Protocol:
- Mute your sound.
- Everyone can ask/write a question in the chat.
Speaker’s Short Bio
The Honorable Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson is serving her 15th term representing the 30th Congressional District of Texas since 1993. Congresswoman Johnson is the first African American and woman to chair the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and is the Dean of the Texas Congressional delegation in addition to serving as Dean of the Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona Democratic Congressional Delegation. Congresswoman Johnson is the highest-ranking Texan on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the first nurse to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Congresswoman Johnson began her career as the first female African American Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the V.A. Hospital in Dallas. In 1972, she became the first nurse ever elected to the Texas State House and achieved that same distinction upon her election to the Texas Senate in 1986. From 2011 to 2018, she served as the Science, Space and Technology Committee’s first African American and first female Ranking Member.
Congresswoman Johnson has a reputation as a stateswoman who works with both parties to get things done—a reputation earned during her more than 40 years in public office. Congresswoman Johnson is widely recognized as one of the most effective legislators in Congress, credited with authoring and co-authoring more than 177 bills that were passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by the president. She has a long-standing reputation for providing excellent constituent services to the people who elected her.
She is the founder of the Diversity & Innovation Caucus, the founder and co-chair of the Congressional Homelessness Caucus, co-chair of the Congressional Lupus Caucus, and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus of Bosnia. Congresswoman Johnson had the honor to serve as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus during the 107th Congress. Her acclaimed initiative, A World of Women for World Peace, has gained national and international recognition.
Congresswoman Johnson is the proud mother of her son, Kirk, and of her three grandsons, Kirk Jr., David and James.
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