Addressing diversity challenges in academia is a highly complex multi-faceted topic that is impossible to do justice in a short opinion piece. This is, therefore, just a small set of examples: By paying attention to our own biases and thinking carefully about how we interact with those around us, both in terms of the language … Read more
Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM courses. Read Here
The share of Black students completing STEM degrees was growing until the early 2000s. What went wrong? Read Here
Building an Antiracist Lab: Scientists Offer Steps to Take Action Now (This is a short blurb of the article below) There are steps that can be taken now to help make research groups more equitable and inclusive, researchers state in a recently published paper Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab Demographics of the … Read more
The myth that underrepresented students leave science because they can’t keep up reflects an unwillingness to deal with the truth that it’s we who must change, writes Kerstin M. Perez. Read Here
Gatekeeper courses contribute to the diversity challenges chemistry faces. Some professors and institutions are working to change the narrative from one of gatekeepers to one of gateways. Read Here
Turning isolation into inclusion – C&EN cen.acs.org Now is the time for a shift in responsibility from the students to the administrators. It is time for Black students to not be weighed down by the departmental expectations of being “the face.”
Myriam Sarachik Never Gave Up on Physics – The New York Times www.nytimes.com The New York-based scientist overcame sexism and personal tragedy to make major contributions to the field, for which she received recognition this year.
In 2011, Ginther et al. first demonstrated that African American and Black applicants to the National Institutes of Health received grant awards at a lower rate than their white counterparts (Ginther 2011). Since then, multiple studies have reproduced and extended this finding (Ginther 2011; Ginther 2016; Hoppe 2019; Erosheva 2020). Recently we reported that African American and Black (AAB) … Read more
“They ask you if you’re coming in to take the trash out — stuff they wouldn’t ask a physician who was a white male.” Read Here
