McClure Lecture on Faith and Science

Thursday, January 30, 2025 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

George Shinn Center

Dwayne Simmons is the Cornelia Marschall Smith Endowed Professor in the Department of Biology and the Senior Director of STEM Initiatives in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Office of Engaged Learning at Baylor University. He also serves as Director of the BTRUE (Baylor Transdisciplinary Research Undergraduate Experience). He was Chair of the Department of Biology from 2016-2023 and he holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor in the School of Bioscience at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. In 2015-16, he was a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom where he conducted research at the University of Sheffield on the role of calcium buffering in auditory function and deafness. He received a Career Development Award (2014-17) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Previously at UCLA, he was a professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, directed diversity and education programs for the UCLA Brain Research Institute, and directed several NIH-funded undergraduate research programs, whose goals are to increase the number of students from diverse backgrounds who enter biomedical research careers