serves as Associate Director for STEM Initiatives for the UTSA College of Sciences. Gail has also been serving as Assistant Program Director and Training Specialist for the UTSA RISE and MARC programs for almost 20 years. She was honored in 2014 with the UTSA President’s Distinguished Diversity Award and the COS Distinguished Diversity Award for her devotion to assisting underrepresented students achieve their educational goals as biomedical researchers.