Darrell Stover Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina

Teach Interdisciplinary Studies courses including Introduction to Science, Technology & Society. Most popular class is Black Popular Culture: From the Blues to Afrofuturism. Affiliate to the Genetic Engineering & Society Center.

Develop and present science enrichment experiences at schools and science festivals using the training provided via a National Science Foundation grant. Created a workshop tool for training community college instructors on how to engage audiences through science storytelling. Recognized as NC Sciencefest Homegrown Science Hero April 2021.

Create programs in Afrodiasporic culture with influencers of like mind in Afrofuturism, Juneteenth, Kwanzaa, STEM history, etc.Curate, write and update exhibition, directory, and online presence of the African American Music Trail of Eastern North Carolina. Interact with stakeholders across the state in promoting the music trail, establishing programs, and interviewing musicians for sustained representation of the musical heritage of the eastern region of the state.Immerse communities, young and old, in science enrichment experiences that model microbiology data gathering. Use interdisciplinary approaches to present the interface of popular culture with science and technology. Lecture on the significant historical contributions to the biological sciences and STEM education through HBCUs.

Run on Water Project”; Write, research and develop multimedia presentations of coastal North Carolina through the examination of historical people, places and events of the African American antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction era experience expressed through poetry, film, stage performance and radio. Wrote, directed and produced a 14 part radio series on WNCU 90.7FM that dramatized and examined the historical and regional focus of the project. Acquired humanities and arts grant support for ongoing project. Managed collective of artists and interview/recruit history scholars for further development of project for series of lectures and performances which lead up to final presentation commemorating the 150th anniversary of the taking of Fort Fisher presented at the North Carolina Museum of History. Performed and presented in lectures and Juneteenth programs in NC.

Research, write, publish, lecture and perform poetry and narratives on the life sciences, African-American literary canon and African diaspora history and culture. Engaged in creating and presenting creative writing workshops throughout the DMV and Triangle area in conjunction with the North Carolina Writers Network, public schools, colleges, literacy councils and libraries.

Engage statewide partners in developing fundable humanities-based programming grants that encourages the examination of North Carolina history, heritage and culture. Serve as grant manager for funded humanities programs at universities, libraries, museums and non-profit organizations. Manage statewide tour of the New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music Smithsonian Institution exhibit and statewide tour of Journey Stories Smithsonian Institute exhibit. Cultural Arts Program Specialist, Page-Walker Arts & History Center

Develop, coordinate, budget and implement cultural arts, history and educational programs and activities. Coordinate town participation, physical and financial support of multicultural and international programming through managing Town staff, volunteers and co-sponsoring organizations, i.e. increasing programming and participation in diverse array of cultural programs.

Played major role in increasing community awarenes and participation in the programs at the Center leading up to the completed renovation of the performance hall. Selected, scheduled, budgeted, marketed and managed local and national artists and scholars for ongoing arts and cultural programs in Durham, NC. Programs included the Bull Durham Blues Festival, the Black Diaspora Film Festival, Poetry Power, science, dance, blues and art-themed summer camps, literary events(poetry and science fiction), history presentations and music series among others.

Prepared scripts, interviewed guests with co-host Doris Betts, and provided context for weekly radio discussion on southern literature, history and culture broadcast from WUNC studio throughout NPR stations in southeastern United States. Featured on Bill Friday's public television program discussing poetry and southern literature's importance as part of the storytelling tradition of the South.

Edit and code science research for ongoing data retrieval service. Write and edit science articles for local and national media. Develop a website that examines and highlights the history, hot topics and exceptional websites of biotechnology and microbiology. Research, update, and publish directory and database of previous biomedical research grantees of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Taught writing workshops to special populations in detention facilities, mental institutions and schools. Encouraged the creative abilities of others to flow more freely through poetic expression.

Managed collective of writers, musicians and dancers through award winning years of performance and teaching of African diaspora history, culture, and literature in schools, senior centers, libraries, festivals, universities, and prisons in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Edited the poetry anthology “Bad Beats Sacred Rhythms.” Organized and managed ongoing poetry events. Wrote and managed arts and humanities grants relative to supporting the ensemble’s initiatives.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Responsible for selecting, compiling and editing science research documents for databases relative to biotechnology and microbiology. Developed special coverage of AIDS research and marine, medical and environmental biotechnology. Analyzed and reviewed science websites as links to an internet-accessible environmental sciences database. Managed pool of editors responsible for editing documents for science databases.

Bethesda, Md

Provided technical support in cellular and molecular biology laboratory. Isolated and characterized nucleic acids of retroviruses and tumors. Produced monoclonal antibodies for immunological characterization of viruses relative to cancer cause and prevention. Performed DNA isolation, electron, microscopy, quality control, radiation surveys, and cell culture.

Master Of Arts, Science Writing

Public Fellow, Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2000-2001, Research topic - “The Poet as Public Figure” Visualizing.

Bachelor, General Studies; Microbiology, American Studies And Creative Writing