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Reducing Financial Barriers for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: A Workshop

"A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a virtual public workshop to examine the financial barriers – including educational debt burden – preventing Black people from entering or continuing education in science, engineering, and medicine (SEM). The workshop will also identify policies and practices that perpetuate those barriers and lay a foundation of knowledge for others to be better positioned to engage on these issues."

3 part workshop, 9 hours total. 

IGEN News Summer 2021

Our IGEN Project Quarterly Newsletter highlights the work being done by our alliance members and partners.

 

Featured in this issue:

  • Introducing Monica Plisch, Interim Director of IGEN
  • National Meeting Highlights
  • Meet Miranda Gallagher, IGEN's new Project Manager 
  • Opportunities to Learn: Equity in Graduate Education Workshops and Virtual Journal Clubs
  • IGEN Partner News

100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor once said, "Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society." Though aimed at society as a whole, her words also apply to our scientific society. Until the scientific community makes dedicated efforts to include minority scholars, science will never be an equal society. While the Supreme Court recently ruled to block attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the fight against systemic racism is a long journey that extends far beyond this case. We must all work to ensure scientists from all walks of life are supported and welcomed into the scientific community in order to build a landscape that more accurately represents the makeup of society.
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