Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#086)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Race and diversity issues in STEM can no longer be ignored. Professor Gentry Patrick is a neurobiologist and the Director of Mentorship and Diversity at UC San Diego. As a kid from Compton, he didn’t have an easy road, but he is committed to making sure future generations have it easier than he did. We discussed the importance of diversity in science and academia and the unfair burden placed on people of color in those spaces. We also talk about failures, storytelling, and what Gentry looks for in a graduate student. Subscribe to my mailing list to receive show notes for this episode: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 00:00:00 Introduction. 00:06:27 The importance of mentorship on Gentry’s trajectory. 00:12:22 Increasing diversity in academia. 00:21:07 Gentry’s childhood as a geeky kid in Compton. 00:32:27 Showcasing science as a part of society and culture. 00:41:25 What Gentry looks for in a graduate student. 00:48:16 Gentry explains his neurobiology research and why it fascinates him. 00:56:31 The PATHS scholars program supports diverse students. Gentry Patrick is a professor of neurobiology at UC San Diego researching the central nervous system. He has a PhD from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at CalTech. Gentry is the Director of Mentorship and Diversity at UC San Diego and established the PATHways to STEM program to remove barriers for underrepresented students. Learn more about the PATHS Scholars Program https://paths.ucsd.edu Watch Gentry’s convocation speech at UC San Diego in 2019 here: https://youtu.be/yeboCHowDFM Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Host Brian Keating: ‍♂️ Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a kid from the streets of Compton, California, overcome poverty, racism, police brutality,
0:07.6	inadequate access to health care resources, and go on to go to Harvard, Caltech, and then become a full professor of
0:15.8	neurobiology at one of the top universities in the world, overcoming all that
0:20.1	and then going further in a mission as if that wasn't enough.
0:24.3	Today's guest, Professor Gentry Patrick, is going to tell you exactly how he did it.
0:29.1	Gentry, my friend, my relative.
0:33.2	It's so great to have you here.
0:36.6	It's so great to have you here.
0:39.2	Into the Impossible Podcast.
0:40.7	It's always fun to have brilliant guests on the podcast, but it's even more fun when it's a dear friend and an innovative intellect like yourself.
0:48.0	So thank you very much. Thank you for having you.
0:50.0	Yeah, thank you so much. I thought we'd begin as a little teaser. I kind of see you as this, you know, as this action superhero came out of, you know, some of the most challenging, shall we say, as a euphemism, locations of the world to become essentially the top of your game.
1:05.4	And a lot of the things that we do on the Into the Impossible Podcast is talk to the highest
1:10.2	achievers that have achieved the greatest heights in their professions and you are one of them.
1:15.6	Thank you for including.
1:16.5	Yeah, it's true. It's like I feel like I'm the, you know, the drummers, what you call the guy who hangs out with musicians.
1:22.1	I got to hang out
1:23.2	with professor. So first of all what's your background, what the heck is
1:26.7	neurobiology and how did you get out of Compton, you know, which is not usually
1:30.8	considered, you know, one of the one of the safest places in the world
1:33.9	to grow up overcoming all those challenges that I mentioned how did you get to
1:38.2	where we are today? All right yeah I mean that's a lot. Let me see if I can do it succinctly
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