Birmingham scientist tapped for $30M grant selection committee

Local biological scientist Dr. Adrienne Starks has been selected to serve on a committee that will award $30 million to expand the power and influence of women in the United States by 2030.  The grant, presented by Pivotal Ventures – an entity created by Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott – is dubbed the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge. The grant opened up on July 20.  “While completing my postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, I realized I was a triple minority - an…