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Dr. Jeremy A. M. Waisome
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Rising Star Assistant Professor
UF Engineering Education (EEd)
Mentorship + Self-efficacy
Researcher + Reluctant Nerd
Singer for Jesus. Lover of the arts
Co-Host of Modern Figures Podcast.
3x UF HWCOE Alum 🧡🐊💙
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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

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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!
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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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?...
How to Shape National Policy — From the Bronx to the White House | Modern Figures Podcast | Ep. 087
YouTube video by Modern Figures Podcast
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August 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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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
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.
August 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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
Introducing AI to the Future Workforce | Podcast
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August 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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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!
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 😂
August 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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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...
July 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.
July 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Pluto never gave up:)
June 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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!
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.
May 31, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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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!
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.
May 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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…
May 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"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.

time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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.
April 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Today was a beautiful day.
April 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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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.
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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A great read is Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline Geronimus.

www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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.
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February 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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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.
February 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Me: Submits mid-tenure packet 🎉

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

Me: 😒😒😒
February 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Barometric pressure headaches are AWFUL. This is NOT the superpower I deserve! 😩
February 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Outreach with my tiny human last weekend. These kids from a Title 1 school in Florida toured our NSF-sponsored facility and learned about wind hazards. Then they got to build wind turbines to test them in our boundary layer wind tunnel.
Dr. Kurt Gurley, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida describes how we measure wind speeds during hurricanes to a group of high school students and teachers. Everyone is outside standing near instrumented towers of various shades of orange. It’s foggy and the color of the tower stands out. Kurt has his hands raised describing how sections of the tower swing into place. Inside of the wind tunnel, Dr. Gurley shares how the wind tunnel functions and is specifically discussing what we refer to as the terraformer. This is an area between the fans a test area that can be dynamically changed to mimic topography. Over 1100 metal rectangular prisms connected to individual motors spin to reach varying heights and can be individually controlled by computer. The students stand facing the wind, which is not yet blowing. There is an instrumented plexiglass box installed and two stands for testing wind turbines visible in the image. A high school girl helps a preschool girl with their first design of a wind turbine. The young girl is my daughter and has two afro poofs, a beaded necklace and bracelet, and a rainbow cupcake pop keychain. She’s wearing a Gator engineering shirt. She is inserting a fan blade into a 3D printed hub while the older girl holds the hub still. The older girl is wearing all black and looking intently at the hub to ensure the blade is properly placed. They’re sitting on an old blue carpet. The two girls from the prior image are in the wind tunnel with their blades attached to the stand. The older girl is looking at the neighboring stand to see a digital voltage output from their design (not pictured) while the younger girl is watching their design. There is another student in background holding his fan and adjusting it.
February 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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every semester i procrastinate on the initial rounds of grading

every semester i get buried in a pile of grading it takes a weekend to dig out of

every semester i rediscover that if i grade things as they come in, it saves time

will i remember any of this for next semester? almost certainly not
February 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.
February 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I’m genuinely surprised that folks didn’t see this coming. Florida (the state government) was over here doing the most and people pretended like it wouldn’t extend beyond the confines of red states. Our country’s comprehension of if-then conditions is truly astounding. Black women understood.
February 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM