BERG

The Beliefs in Engineering Research Group — or BERG — is an ever-evolving team of scholars who investigate beliefs that perpetuate inequity in engineering. I launched BERG out of my role as a PI in the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University. Over the years, this group of vibrant scholars have worked together to establish BERG as a community of learning and development for those interested in pursuing their curiosity about how beliefs (in any form) create and perpetuate inequities in engineering spaces.

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Meet Our Team…

BERG - Current Scholars

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Emily Dringenberg, Ph.D.

Founder, Principal Investigator

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Victoria Bill

Doctoral Candidate

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Doctoral Student

Tahlia Altgold

BERG Alumni - Former Doctoral Students

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Winnie Opoku, Ph.D.

Doctoral Graduate

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Dira (Mel) Delpech, Ph.D., MEM

Doctoral Graduate

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Doctoral Graduate

Jeremy Grifski, Ph.D.

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Giselle Guanes, Ph.D.

Doctoral Graduate

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Amy Kramer, P.E., Ph.D.

Doctoral Graduate

BERG Alumni - Former Undergraduate Researchers

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Alexia Wallace

Undergraduate Researcher

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Sumitro Chakravarti

Undergraduate Researcher

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Undergraduate Researcher

Eric Henderson

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Carter Morris

Undergraduate Researcher

Adithya Ramaswami

Undergraduate Researcher

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Undergraduate Researcher

Genevieve (Thanh) Cooper

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Ephratah Meskel Hailu

Undergraduate Researcher

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Ava Martoma

Undergraduate Researcher

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Gabie Gilmore

Undergraduate Researcher

Yiqing Li

Undergraduate Researcher

BERG Alumni - Other Former Research Collaborators

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Alexia Leonard

Graduate Researcher

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Darcy McCarthy

K-12 Educator

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Postdoctoral Scholar

Bailey Braaten, Ph.D.

Gaby Sallai

Research Consultant