Basic Sciences DEI Initiatives

Posted by jenkif2 on Monday, January 24, 2022 in Uncategorized .

• “Celebrate Immigrants” video profiles honor our community’s unique immigrant experiences.

• Culturally aware mentoring (CAM) workshops. 106 faculty trained (sample workshop overview).

• Discovery Science Emerging Scholars seminar series.

• Faculty workshops to craft mentoring and diversity statements. Approx. 116 faculty attended.
Statements are available to TG directors.

• Lou DeFelice travel awards for faculty to accompany summer undergraduate student to SACNAS
or ABRCMS and help us with diversity recruiting for IGP/QCB.

• Fair Play video game workshop.

• Gender issues: Hosted Frazier Benza to present briefing on the NAS report on gender and
sexual harassment in STEM.

• Hosted faculty training sessions on Responding to and Reporting Gender and Sexual Harassment
at Vanderbilt presented by VU Project Safe, Title IX and EEO.

• Held listening sessions for PhD students to address the power differential between faculty
mentors and trainees.

• From above, Kathy Gould and Linda Sealy created the auxiliary mentors resource.

• Created a Climate, Culture and Career Plans survey for graduate students. View survey description and results.

• Bystander training for PhD students and postdocs.