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AIP Selects Taharee Jackson as First Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Officer

October 5, 2020 sarah Jonas AIP, Diversity, Inclusion, Racial Equity, stem, TEAM-UP

The American Institute of Physics welcomes Taharee Jackson as its first AIP Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Officer. Jackson is expected to begin her new role on Oct. 5. Jackson’s appointment is a direct result of AIP’s commitment to emphasizing diversity and inclusion in the federation and throughout the physics and physical sciences community. She was selected from an initial pool of more than 60 candidates and is looking forward to leading AIP’s diversity efforts.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Awards and Appointments

August 17, 2020 sarah Jonas Asian, Award, Black, Cancer, CEO, Community, Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Fellow, Fellowship, Funding, Healthcare, Immigrant, Inclusion, latinx, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, National Cancer Institute, New York, NIH, Nonprofit, Pathology, Patient, Pershing Square Foundation, Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Cancer Researcher, Physics, Radiation Oncology, Research, Researchers, Scientist, Sloan Kettering Institue

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.

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Group is established to connect, inspire and empower UCI women in technology

August 12, 2020 sarah Jonas Alumni, Collaboration, Diversity, Faculty, Gender, Hiring, Inclusion, information & computer sciences, Information Technology, Mentoring, Staff, students, Technology, Women

Irvine, Calif., Aug. 12, 2020 — To connect, inspire and empower women working, researching and teaching in technology-related fields across campus, the University of California, Irvine has established a new diversity affinity group, Women in Technology at UCI. Through strategic partnerships, career development, educational events and networking activities, Women in Technology at UCI will strengthen the community of women in technology on campus.

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Measuring progress in diversity in the health services and policy research field

July 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Academia And Leadership, Diversity, diversity and science, Equity, Inclusion, Racism, Research

Five years after a landmark report on improving equity in health services research, a coalition of four American universities are working together to measure progress.

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Baylor Scott & White Health Earns Best Place to Work in 2020 Disability Equality Index®

July 21, 2020 sarah Jonas ADA, ADA Anniversary, community involvement, Disabililty, Disabilities, DISABLED PERSONS, Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee, Employee Assistance Programs, Inclusion

Baylor Scott & White Health has been recognized in the 2020 Disability Equality Index (DEI), a joint initiative of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and Disability:IN as a “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion.”

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Awards and Appointments

July 16, 2020 sarah Jonas Award, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Coronavirus, coronavirus research, COVID-19, COVID-19 research, Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion, drug, Drug Development, Fellowship, Funding, Grant, Health, Healthcare, Hospital, immuno-oncology, Immunotherapy, Inclusion, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Orthopedics, Patient, Physician, Research, Safety, SARS-CoV-2, Service, sloan kettering institute, underrepresentation

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.

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Barbara Harrison brings experience and human resource skills to new position of equity, diversity and inclusion business partner

July 13, 2020 sarah Jonas Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has appointed Barbara Harrison, who has 19 years of experience in recruiting, to a new position spearheading PPPL’s equity, diversity and inclusion efforts.

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AIP to Fund Programs Combating Racial Injustice, Inequities in Physics, Physical Sciences

July 9, 2020 sarah Jonas Diversity, Inclusion, physical sciences, Physics, Racial Injustice, Science, stem

The American Institute of Physics has established a $200,000 fund to support efforts by its 10 member societies and an AIP affiliated society, the National Society of Black Physicists, for actions that are a direct response to racial injustice. The AIP 2020-2021 Diversity Action Fund will have a special focus on society actions for Black students in the physical sciences, as well as programs focused on minority communities.

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Karen A. Jones joins Binghamton University as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion

July 7, 2020 sarah Jonas Academia, Binghamton, Binghamton University, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, State University of New York at Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton, University

Karen A. Jones began her new role as Binghamton University’s first vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion Thursday, June 25. The Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was created from the Binghamton University Road Map strategic plan to support the development and implementation of initiatives that create a welcoming campus climate that spreads fundamental respect for everyone.

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Cincinnati Children’s Names Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Relations

June 4, 2020 sarah Jonas Diversity, Immigration, immigration and employment, Inclusion, Puerto Rico

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center today named Visael “Bobby” Rodriguez as its vice president of diversity, inclusion and community relations.

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Astronomy fellowship demonstrates effective measures to dismantle bias, increase diversity in STEM

December 6, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Academia And Leadership, bias, Biases, Diversity, diversity in academia, diversity in engineering, Equity, Fellowship, Grant, Inclusion, Postdoc, Postdoctoral Fellowship, stem

Joyce Yen of the University of Washington worked with the Heising-Simons Foundation to dismantle bias and promote diversity in a prominent grant that the Foundation awards to postdoctoral researchers. Here, Yen shares the ways bias can work against greater diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM.

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