Verleen McSween-Missole, Ph.D.

Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. McSween-Missole is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of the Virgin Islands. She serves as the Director of the Mentoring and Research Infrastructure Component in the Virgin Islands Institute for STEM Education Research and Practice funded by NSF EPSCOR.

Her current research focuses on characterization of institutional support structures at HBCUs that facilitate entry of STEM learners into the STEM workforce, and retention of STEM professionals in STEM career fields. Her service efforts focus on broadening early career faculty participation in STEM education, and promoting early career scholarship, productivity, and socialization into the academy and facilitating professional development training for undergraduate research trainees through the Emerging Caribbean Scientists Program. She also serves as co- PI on an NIH funded training and workforce development grant, Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE).