BIOE DEI Journal Club
Hello and welcome to the Rice BIOE DEI Journal Club!!
Open to anyone (students, faculty, and staff included), our goal is to discuss DEI-related topics relevant to STEM academia and higher education; bring awareness of issues to the greater BRC community, and provide literature-based tools to overcome systemic challenges. Each semester has a theme in which articles are scaffolded upon. Below are the topics and articles of prior semesters.
Spring 2024 - Inclusive Mentoring and Allyship
| Date | Theme | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| 03/05/24 | What is a microaggression and how can we navigate them? | Responding and navigating racialized microaggressions in STEM |
| 03/19/24 | What tools make an inclusive classroom? | Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity |
| 04/02/24 | How does the academic environment support or hinder LGBT+ members? | LGBT + academics’ and PhD students’ experiences of visibility in STEM: more than raising the rainbow flag |
| 04/19/24 | Combating ableism in academia–how can we create an environment that allows everyone to participate? | TBD… |
Fall 2023 - Being & Becoming a Scientist
| Date | Theme | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| 11/03/23 | What is Science Identity? | Development of a Framework for the Culture of Scientific Research (Dewey et al. 2021) The nature of science identity and its role as the driver of student choices (Vincent-Ruz and Schunn, 2018) |
| 11/17/23 | What barriers do students face when becoming scientists? | Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Can Make Scientific Research More Inclusive (Bangera and Brownell, 2014) |
| 12/01/23 | How can we help students overcome those barriers? | Overcoming Barriers in Access to High Quality Education After Matriculation: Promoting Strategies and Tactics for Engagement of Underrepresented Groups in Undergraduate Research via Institutional Diversity Action Plans (Pierszalowski, Vue, and Bowma-Gearhart, Journal of STEM Education, 2018) |