Recommendations and Activities:
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- Planning to conduct a full demographic and climate survey for undergraduate students in the department.
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- Created a new CPS Science Leadership Equity Advancement Program (LEAP) Scholars Award modeled after the NSERC and UTEA summer research programs, but reserved for Black or Indigenous students
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- Created a new program, in collaboration with the Experiential Education Unit, to increase diversity among future leaders in STEM fields by identifying high-achieving Black Students, supporting them with a full scholarship, and creating an intensive mentor and cohort program to guide them on the pathway from high school to graduate school.
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- Supporting a Youth Mentorship Program—led by Drs. Mulu Geletu and Elvin De Araujo in CPS’s Gunning Group—to connect Black students with opportunities in life science research.
Other Efforts:
Eight-week reading and discussion group
- Organized an eight-week reading and discussion group—Unlearning Racism in CPS—to better understand the impacts of racism in science and to develop anti-racist guidelines for graduate student and laboratory conduct.
Bi-annual CPS cultural competency training
- Organized biannual CPS cultural competency training to address topics including mental health, classroom inclusivity and accessibility, and anti-Black racism.
Teaching fellowship program
- Created a teaching fellowship program that invites proposals on equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism.