By the @EEB_POC team From Dynamic Ecology Note from Meghan Duffy: This guest post is a revised version of one that briefly appeared last month. Over the past few months society has once again had to face the stark inequities that disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and other racial minorities. The senseless murders of Ahmaud Arbery,…
Category: DEI
PROJECT BIODIVERSIFY: We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this.
From Small Pond Science by Project Biodiversify We contain multitudes. Our courses should reflect this. We contain multitudes. Like an ecological niche, a person’s identity is composed of infinite dimensions that make up a person or group’s collective identity space (Figure 1). However, in science – a discipline that has historically valued objective and…
UM’s inaugural Biology Week celebration
by the Biology Week Organizing Committee* (names below) The pipette box stacking competition was neck and neck. Biology Week, which was originally started by the Royal Society of Biology in England, is an international celebration of the biosciences. However when Sarah VanDiepenbos, an undergraduate student at UM at the time, saw #BiologyWeek trending on Twitter…
Guest post: How to be an ally
From Dynamic Ecology by Gina Baucom, a University of Michigan associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology He’s just a clueless dude. A friend and colleague told me recently about how one of her advisors had written a grant on the topic she developed in his lab — he was awarded the grant, but she…
Call for mentors and mentees for #EEBMentorMatch: linking students from underrepresented groups with grad school and fellowship application mentors
From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate programs still have a long way to go before they reflect the diversity of society more generally. This is a problem both because it is inherently unjust, and because science is done better…
Friday links: #LGBTSTEMDay edition!
LGBT STEM cake. Image from Twitter @TopPhysicist Matt LeBlanc From Dynamic Ecology by Meghan Duffy, a University of Michigan ecologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology All this week’s links are related to #LGBTSTEMDay (including links explaining why such a day is needed): Yesterday was the first #LGBTSTEMDay, and even the…
The M-Sci program completes its seventh summer session
M-Sci students Mustafa Sami and Arielle Ewing answer questions posed by judges from Biological Anthropology. by Lisa Bradshaw, a University of Michigan lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Ann Arbor and the Department of Natural Sciences in Dearborn Last Thursday I had the pleasure of watching the M-Sci Summer Program students…