Diversity

SLOW5 for Indigenous Genomics

Andre Reis from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “A long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics.” Their efforts to increase efforts to increase representation of Indigenous people in Australia. Reis spoke about indigenous Australians and the lack of representation in current catalogues. Thus, there […]
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Emails! Really?!

Since I am taking a Quality Matters Peer Reviewer Course, I thought it was appropriate to start watching QM YouTube videos. Tonight, I watched the recording with Dr. Jason Neiffer, Executive Director at Montana Digital Academy entitled “Email (No, seriously, email).” Neiffer began with a Jamboard activity asking participants to share responses to the prompt […]
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Quantifying Talk-Turns and Graphing Group Dynamics

The Online with LSE Webinar series recording I watched tonight was one I missed. It was from three years ago and entitled “Applying Graph Theory to Examine the Dynamics of Student Discussions in Small-Group Learning” with Dr. Stanley Lo. The session began with a diagram of the inputs and outputs affecting group work. The study […]
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Fourteen Recommendations and Several Great Questions about Creating More Inclusive Environments

“Creating More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Bio” is the title of the Online with LSE Webinar recording I watched tonight. It is from almost two years ago. Sara Brownell was the speaker and presented work from a SABER Special Interest Group (SIG) that worked on recommendations. Brownell shared recommendations that language matters (I paraphrase and […]
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Challenges for Undergraduates with Disabilities with Online Courses

After watching Dr. Logan Gin moderating an Online with LSE Webinar session, I was reminded about the session he did and rewatched it tonight. The title of the session was “COVID-19 and STEM Undergraduates with Disabilities: Challenges Resulting from the Transition to Online Course Delivery” and it happened a little over a hear ago, around […]
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A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]
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A Study on Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM

Dr. Logan Gin was the moderator of the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Mariel Pfeifer on “Inside and Out: Factors that Support and Hinder the Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM.”I remember watching this recording earlier but wanted to revisit it as I am going over recordings from this […]
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Perceptions of Faculty Culturally Diverse Mentor Training

Dr. Damani White-Lewis is a postdoctoral scholar and presented at the Online with LSE Webinar series. Along with coauthors Ana Romero, Justin Gutzwa, and Sylvia Hurtado, they presented on their article “Moving the Science Forward: Faculty Perceptions of Culturally Diverse Mentor Training Benefits.” The problem White-Lewis stated was the need for STEM faculty to become […]
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A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]
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Resistance to Implementing Diversity Interventions in the Classroom

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar recording for the session “Diversity Interventions in the Classroom: From Resistance to Action.” Dr. Dustin Thoman from San Diego State University is a social psychologist that works in science education along with Dr. Melo-Jean Yap, Dr. Felisha Herrera Villareal, and Dr Jessi Smith (UCCS). As with other […]
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