Dr. Jeremy A. M. Waisome

Atayliya standing in front of a credenza and her title presentation slide at the end of her proposal defense. The title is unfolding pathway: investigating pursuit and persistence of women in computing doctoral education.

Atayliya standing with her committee in front of a credenza and her title presentation slide at the end of her proposal defense. The title is unfolding pathway: investigating pursuit and persistence of women in computing doctoral education. From left to right, Dr. Curtis Taylor, Atayliya, Andrea Goncher (on the screen), Jeremy Waisome, and Kyla McMullen

Breuna Wilson with her EGN2020C Engineering Design & Society class this term. Breuna is seated in the front. The students and Breuna are doing gator chomps.

Updates from my lab! Two students have completed milestones this term. Breuna Wilson passed her qualifying exam and Atayliya Irving passed her proposal defense!

Me and Dr. Parnell posed outside of the Wertheim Building, in front of a sculpture art piece on a very sunny Florida day

Members of my lab!

Congratulations to Dr. Dennis Parnell Jr for successfully defending his dissertation entitled, Chipping Away at Barriers: Informing the Design of
Augmented Reality Environments to Shape Semiconductor Career Interest. He will be the third PhD to graduate from my lab #GoGators

@ufresearch.bsky.social

How to Shape National Policy — From the Bronx to the White House | Modern Figures Podcast | Ep. 087 YouTube video by Modern Figures Podcast

We just wrapped our 6th season of @modernfigures.bsky.social (I created the account but never post lol). Working on re-launching content on YouTube. Here’s the latest released on there with one of my favs, @quincykbrown.bsky.social! youtu.be/SKtLS3J21XI?...

Me, in the middle, with a Gator blue shirt and herringbone black and white pants, and bedazzled flip flop (and thankful the dais hid my feet during the earlier session)! I’m standing between my two new students. Teresa Myrthil is on the left of the image. She’s a graduate of CMU’s chemical engineering program. Raina Johnson is on the right of the image, and she’s a graduate of the University of Miami’s environmental engineering program, and currently works at a consulting firm. We’re all smiles! Only Raina thought to take off her name tag.

Dr. Adrienne Stephenson of FSU, our moderator, makes a solid (relevant) point after my comment. She is the main character of this image, wearing a read dress, hair in a bun, with perfectly snatched edges. She’s pointing with both hands for emphasis. I’m holding a microphone sitting behind the aforementioned dais (amen) smiling in agreement. The alignment! The persuasion with the pointed fingers… so great. (Clocks tea, I’m thinking, probably). The other two panelists are to my left and right, Dr. Sonja Montas-Hunter and Dr. Antoinette Smith, are pensive.

This image shows the dais, and panelists with a new main character. Dr. Taylor (whose last name I can’t remember because I’m still waking up from a post-church nap) is holding a framed certificate she will soon hand to me. Her back is to the audience/camera. My face is giving, “Girl, are you going to pronounce my whole name correctly?” She was surprisingly successful! And I was impressed! But that’s not shown here. Dr. Sonja Montas-Hunter is amused by her attempted pronunciation, likely because she also had a similar gut-feeling about her names. Our other panelist is simply, not impressed and focused on placing her water bottle back down without causing chaos.

This weekend was the Annual New Fellows Orientation for the 2025 McKnight Doctoral Fellows. I was invited to serve as a panelist to discuss, “The PhD Roadmap: Graduate School Resources and Best Practices for Success.” I got to see my new students, who are both new McKnight Fellows! #AcademicSky

Introducing AI to the Future Workforce | Podcast YouTube video by National Science Foundation News

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Nate Pottker on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Files podcast. I am grateful to have my work highlighted in this way! Share your thoughts on the episode and the use of AI in K-12 education in the comments. #AcademicSky #Blacksky #scicomm

That’s what it is 🙃

I added more context for Twitter 😏

😂😂😂

Dr. Waisome (African American woman) and Dr. Jabari Wilson (African American man), wearing orange and blue regalia.

Dr. Waisome (African American woman) and Dr. Jasmine Smith (African American woman) wearing orange and blue doctoral regalia.

A full body image of Drs. Wilson, Waisome, and Smith in their regalia.

Dr. Waisome without her regalia reminding people she’s fabulous in an orange dress and platform heels. She kept on her tam, for the graduation vibes. This was a requested photo from her hair stylist who said she needed “HER” to show up to the ceremony 😂

Last week I graduated my first students! I felt all of the emotions! I’m incredibly proud of both of them as you can see in these. And I’m super surprised I held it together and didn’t cry 😂 Shoutout to my hair, which was a (well) paid actress for the day!

The #AERA2026 submissions deadline has been extended one week to August 1, originally scheduled for July 25. We hope this extension will provide support during a time of funding losses and disruptions to work. www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

Congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

You ever have to rip your entire soul out of a research proposal because of government oversight and the politicization of science? No? Is that just me? 😅 #reviseandresubmit #academicsky #edusky #academicwriting

Pluto never gave up:)

Drs. Juan Gilbert, Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Jabari Wilson, Jeremy Waisome, and Elliot Douglas pose for a picture in front of Dr. Wilson’s dissertation title slide.

Special thanks to his committee (all current Department Chairs 👀) who have continuously supported Jabari since we selected them. His work focused on the Air Force Office of Scientific Reseach’s Career Ready Internship Program, facilitated through the Washington DC Office of the State Superintendent.

Dr. Jabari Wilson and Dr. Jeremy Waisome pose for a photo. He’s wearing an orange suit with green accents. She is wearing a blue jumpsuit. Jabari has his hands clasped in front of him and Jeremy has her visible hand on her hip. They are posed at the front of a classroom and a whiteboard is behind them.

Congratulations to Dr. Jabari Wilson for successfully defending his dissertation. Dr. Wilson’s dissertation is entitled, Shaping Futures: The Influence of Career & Technical Education Work-Based Learning Program Design on High School Students' Career Aspirations. He’s the 3rd to do so in UF EEd!

A photo of Dr. Jasmine Smith with her committee: Back row: Dr. Roger Fillingim and Dr. David Therriault (on Zoom) Front row: Dr. Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Dr. Jasmine Smith, Dr. Pamela Dickrell, and Dr. Jeremy Waisome

Thank you to her committee and community of support! I’m so proud of you and all your hard work, Jasmine! I cannot wait to see what’s next!

A photo of Dr. Jeremy Waisome and her graduate student, Dr. Jasmine Smith who successfully defended her dissertation. Dr. Waisome is wearing a glowy red and black dress and Dr. Smith is wearing a red and white button down shirt.

Congratulations to Jasmine Smith for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, The Influence of Self-Awareness and its Related Dimensions on Engineering Research Mentoring Relationships. Jasmine is my first grad student to defend and the second in the UF Department of Engineering Education!

for effective, critical, and ethical mentorship. This week is so exciting for me and my phenomenal students! But it’s also hard. Really hard. #AcademicSky #blacksky

So, here I am, seven years post-PhD, excited for my students. But also, reliving circumstance that brought me harm, unaware of how much it is very much still tangible. And while I try not to talk about it, I’ll never forget what I went through to be here. Or why I fight so hard

We don’t talk about grad school PTSD enough. Like, my mind was under constant stress finishing my degree. It was a non-trivial exercise to separate myself from the work and be sane. I had situational high functioning depression. No one knew. It was awful.

Realizing now (after a convo with @Dr_Kyla) that I’m experiencing a trauma response to my students defending. My body was BIG MAD all weekend and I haven’t been able to figure it out until today. The anxiety of MY defense and experience in grad school is still with me…

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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Yes, my grants have been canceled. No, I don’t want to talk about it. I’m just deeply saddened and simultaneously infuriated for me, my colleagues, my students, and the communities I serve.

Today was a beautiful day.

My allergies were insufferable in Gainesville. Went to ATL for 4 days and it got WORSE! How?! I can’t even chaotically sing and I’m supposed to teach Thursday. Teach how? At least when I got back the azaleas were gorgeous.

How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease Public health professor Arline Geronimus explains how marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress, which damages their bodies at the cellular level. Her new book is Weathering.

A great read is Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline Geronimus.

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One student passed their proposal defense and another their qualifying exam! 🎉🎉🎉 And I’m excited to start recruiting with 3 students nearing graduation! Our progress will continue regardless of the changing landscape.

Me: Submits mid-tenure packet 🎉

Journal: Congrats, we’ve accepted your article! 🤗

Me: 😒😒😒