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In 1981, only 15 years after Rice University admitted its first undergraduate and
graduate African American students, Gilda Barabino entered Rice as a graduate
student in chemical engineering, making her the first African American in the
department. Barabino's goal was to apply
engineering to medicine, and she quickly
focused her research on sickle cell disease, the most common inherited blood
disorder that disproportionately affects
African Americans.
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Years later, when Barabino entered
the academy as an assistant professor of
chemical engineering at Northeastern
University, she would become the first
African American female to be hired into
a tenure-track position in chemical engineering. When she became the dean of engineering at the City College of New York
in 2013, she was the first African American female to take on the deanship of engineering at an institution that was not a
historically black college or university.
That is a lot of firsts, and breaking all of
those barriers was challenging. Barabino
repeatedly learned firsthand the issues

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that come with being " one, the only, or one
of a few, " and how that impacts a career.
" It's really important to look at the ways
that we forge career paths for everyone to
make our fields accessible, because when I
went through all of my experiences, both
training and entering my profession, I
didn't have mentors and role models who
looked like me, " Barabino says. " And honestly, throughout my career, I rarely had a
student who looked like me. "
These experiences hardened Barabino's resolve to make a difference for
others who were pursuing careers in
engineering, education, and research.
" These issues did have some impact on
the career choices that I made, in trying to make sure that my life's work was
not just through my research on sickle
cell disease and tissue engineering-that
it was not just about the impact of the
research but also about the training of

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