What are these Resources for?
- Helping students find support & help
- Helping students find community
- Helping recruit and retain URM students in the sciences
- Teaching ALL department members
- How to fight bias
- How to recognize racism/discrimination
- How to teach a diverse community
Equity and Implicit Bias:
- UW-Madison Equity and Diversity hub, including, a searchable database of diversity and inclusion programs, reports, news and events on campus
- UW-Madison Land Acknowledgement statement
- UW-Madison channel to report any incident of Bias or Hate
- Harvard’s Implicit Bias tests
- Race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards
- Research Culture: Career choices of underrepresented and female postdocs in the biomedical sciences
LGBTQIA+:
- UW-Madison Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, provides education, outreach, advocacy, and resources for LGBTQIA+
- Useful resources from the American Psychological association with training, scholarship opportunities and guidance for LGBTQIA+ in Science
- UWM guide to correct pronoun usage
- UW Writing Center guide to pronouns
- Creating LGBTQIA+ Friendly Schools and Campus Communities
Inclusivity in the Classroom:
- Teaching Assistant Association (TAA) diversity resources
- Essay on Inclusive Teaching, with guides and checklists for instructors
- Pew Research Center article with Nation-wide demographics of faculty and students in academia
- Essay by David Asai about teaching
- Large list of resources for students with disabilities and accessibility in teaching
- The Science of Effective mentorship in STEM
- Disability Visibility Podcast
- Ensuring Libraries Are Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive
Anti-Racism
- Stanford Anti-Racist lab toolkit
- Patching the Leaks: Revitalizing and Reimagining the STEM Pipeline
- A call to increase funding to Black scientists
- Strategies to Improve Equity in Faculty Hiring
- Bhalla Lab equity reading list
- Thoughtful essay by Prof. Jasmine Roberts (Ohio State University) with 10 tangible actions to fight White Supremacy in Academia
- UW-Madison Resources for White allies
- “The New Republic” article on systemic racism in American universities
- Greater Good Magazine list of Anti-Racist resources
- Ten simple rules for building an Anti-racist Lab
- “Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences: What, Why, Where, and How We Move Forward – K Gibbs”
- “Confronting Bias in Scientific Culture Symposium and Strategies to Lessen Biases in Science Workshop — Society for Developmental Biology”
- Research: Decoupling of the minority PhD talent pool and assistant professor hiring in medical school basic science departments in the US
- Essay by Namandje Bumpus on racism in academia
Community Building Groups on Campus
Ideas for Inviting Speakers
- https://500queerscientists.com/
- https://500womenscientists.org/
- http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/100-inspiring-black-scientists-in-america
- http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/100-more-inspiring-black-scientists-in-america
Connecting Undergraduate Students to Science Opportunities:
- NIH STEP-UP: 10 week NIH summer research
- ASM UG Fellowship: Paid summer research in microbial science at home institution
- Undergrad Research Opportunities at UW
- National Summer UG Research Project: A community-driven initiative to create rewarding remote summer research opportunities for BIPOC undergraduate students in the microbial sciences
- Leadership Alliance UG research program: 23 institutions alliance, summer research program and beyond
- McNair Scholars: The McNair Program helps low-income, first-generation college students prepare for doctoral study. McNair students participate in research activities in the Winter, Spring, and Summer Quarters
- Cientifico Latino: mentorship for Latinx/anyone seeking help for successfully applying to bio/biomed grad schools
- Project Short: mentorship to prospective PhD, MD, and MD/PhD programs