Studies of Racism

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

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

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

What Comes Next? Simple Practices to Improve Diversity in Science What Comes Next? Simple Practices to Improve Diversity in Science Olugbeminiyi O. Fadeyi, Marie C. Heffern, Shanina Sanders Johnson, and Steven D. Townsend ACS Central Science 2020 6 (8), 1231-1240 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00905