Nadine Kabengi

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences & Department of Chemistry
Associate Dean, GSU Graduate School

Georgia State University

Dr. Kabengi is an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Georgia State University (GSU) where she has been since 2012. She has received her B.S. and M.S in Agricultural Engineering and Soil Science from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where she was born and raised. She later moved to the United States where she earned a Ph.D. in Soil Physical Chemistry from the University of Florida.

Dr. Kabengi commitment to increasing representation in STEM stems from her lived experiences. At GSU, she created an Honors seminar course entitled “Underrepresented Minorites in Science: Why so few?” designed to debate that exact question by delving into various literatures on retention and attrition of URMs from STEM fields and careers. She teaches the “WomenLead in Science” section of this award-winning program at GSU and is the faculty mentor of STEMulate, a student club newly-formed by her students. STEMulate focuses on empowering URMs and women in STEM. Dr. Kabengi serves as the Graduate Director for Geosciences, a MS program that enrolls a majority of students (57%) from underrepresented groups. Under her leadership, the program was named a Bridge Program by the American Geophysical Union in 2019.