Associate Director of the Comprehensive Colleges and Universities Constituency 

Tieli Wang

Tieli Wang was elected in the 2014 elections and will serve three years, beginning July 1, 2015.

Present Position: Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at Mount Sinai Medical School. 

Chapter Affiliation: California State University-Dominguez Hills

Candidate's Statement: It is a great honor to be a candidate to serve on the committee as an associate director for the Sigma Xi Comprehensive Colleges and Universities Constituency Group. I have been a member of Sigma Xi since 1999. As a Sigma Xi member, I have worked with local scientists and professors to serve as a judge for the ISEF science competition in May 2014. My research interests include experimental therapeutics of anticancer drugs, identifying protein targets for systems therapeutics, and studying the structural and function of the protein targets and their roles in chemoresistance using interdisciplinary approaches by combining chemical, biological, and biophysical methods. As an educator, an important part of my responsibilities is to foster and facilitate excellence in student learning. I have been actively involved with student centered learning in classrooms and undergraduate and graduate research with people from local CSU campuses in the Los Angeles area. I am committed to an interdisciplinary approach to my research and teaching, which is one of the important visions of the Society.

In addition, I have also had an experience serving as an executive committee member in Southern California American Chemical Society. If I am elected, I will play an active role in assisting the director of the constituency in raising of public awareness of this scientific society and the efforts made by Sigma Xi to promote interdisciplinary research and education. I will offer a positive and a balanced view in STEM education and research. I am extremely interested in promoting and fostering creative thinking to improve the quality of STEM education, and availability of interdisciplinary research-related collaborations. Work with all the parties who deal with those issues and try to bring some cooperativeness and collaboration among the various voices whatever we can. 

Tieli Wang's CV.