Friday, June 15, 2012

From Harvard to HBCU, Scholar Stays Committed to the Cause

From Harvard to HBCU, Scholar Stays Committed to the Cause: Dr. Huijun Li left Harvard University earlier this year to take a position as an assistant professor in the psychology department at Florida A&M University. After arriving at FAMU, she was awarded a $250,000 research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

At Harvard, Li served as director of multicultural research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. A native of China, Li received a master’s degree in applied linguistics from Kunming University of Science and Technology. She has a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Arizona and is a nationally certified school psychologist. She remains a visiting assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School.

Li discusses the reasons for her recent move and her expansive research project that includes scientists and scholars at three universities on two continents.