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The CBMG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee serves as a departmental resource for knowledge of and leadership in DEI. The Committee is responsible for assessing the departmental environment for DEI, recommending activities, resources, and policies to enhance DEI in CBMG, and promoting DEI awareness in the department, including climate, recruitment, retention, and outreach.

Our annual DEI activities include events, such as Back-to-School, Halloween/Day of the Dead, Lunar New Year, Disability Awareness, and Juneteenth. In addition, we are gathering and publishing personal stories of department members in the CBMG Newsletter, sponsoring a new departmental DEI award, and working with the seminar committee to encourage a greater diversity of invited speakers. We also identify and advertise external events regarding DEI. We encourage participation in national organizations with a diversity focus, such as ABRCMS, SACNAS, and oSTEM, and plan to offer our own DEI workshops and training. We welcome any suggestions you have for the committee.

Signed,

Current DEI Committee members: Caren Chang (co-chair), Chuck Delwiche (co-chair), Grace Igbinosun, Edgar Moctezuma, Aurelie Niyongabo, Errica Philpott, Teresa Thompson

FEATURE

PERSONAL STORIES

The CBMG Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion committee has formed this newsletter with the goal of bringing DEI issues, events, and perspectives to the forefront, where they rightly belong. We would like to use this space as an opportunity to highlight the strength of the diversity within our department. In each newsletter, we hope to publish feature articles, interviews, perspectives, or recorded oral histories from people in the department, alumni, and people associated with the department. This is one small step we can take to break down barriers and see one another as humans with different experiences and perspectives rather than as stereotypes. LEARN MORE >>

FACULTY & RESEARCH

AWARDS

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We are also interested in hearing about YOUR DEI activities. If you have supported, led, or hosted an event, program, or research that promotes diversity, equity, and/or inclusion within science, our classrooms, or the community, please complete this form so that the DEI Committee can be informed of your efforts!